Side effects are both the essence and bane of imperative programming. The programmer must carefully coordinate actions to manage their side effects upon each other. Such coordinat...
Abstract—Performance is a key feature of large-scale computing systems. However, the achieved performance when a certain program is executed is significantly lower than the maxi...
Wireless sensor networks are often used by experts in many different fields to gather data pertinent to their work. Although their expertise may not include software engineering, ...
Alan Dearle, Dharini Balasubramaniam, Jonathan Lew...
An important part of many programming tasks is the use of libraries and other forms of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). Programming via web services using a Service-Orie...
Jack Beaton, Sae Young Jeong, Yingyu Xie, Jeffrey ...
Applying the right compiler optimizations to a particular program can have a significant impact on program performance. Due to the non-linear interaction of compiler optimization...
John Cavazos, Grigori Fursin, Felix V. Agakov, Edw...