This paper develops a mathematical characterisation of object-oriented concepts by defining an observation-oriented semantics for an object-oriented language (OOL) with a rich var...
Data in object-oriented programming is organized in a hierarchy of classes. The problem of object-oriented pattern matching is how to explore this hierarchy from the outside. This ...
ct 7 Applying finite-state verification techniques to software systems looks attractive because they are capable of detecting very subtle 8 defects in the logic design of these s...
The unrelenting pace of change that confronts contemporary software developers compels them to make their applications more configurable, flexible, and adaptive. In order to ach...
Ayla Dantas, Joseph W. Yoder, Paulo Borba, Ralph E...
Pattern matching makes ML programs more concise and readable, and these qualities are also sought in object-oriented settings. However, objects and classes come with open erarchie...