Software evolves to fix bugs and add features. Stopping and restarting programs to apply changes is inconvenient and often costly. Dynamic software updating (DSU) addresses this ...
Suriya Subramanian, Michael W. Hicks, Kathryn S. M...
Sketching is a software synthesis approach where the programmer develops a partial implementation — a sketch — and a separate specification of the desired functionality. The ...
Atomic blocks allow programmers to delimit sections of code as ‘atomic’, leaving the language’s implementation to enforce atomicity. Existing work has shown how to implement...
Timothy L. Harris, Mark Plesko, Avraham Shinnar, D...
GridXSLT is an implementation of the XSLT programming language designed for distributed web service orchestration. Based on the functional semantics of the language, it compiles p...
Peter M. Kelly, Paul D. Coddington, Andrew L. Wend...
Synchronization is a good candidate for an aspect in aspectoriented programming (AOP) since programmers have to choose the best granularity of synchronization for the underlying h...