Concurrency bugs are among the most difficult to test and diagnose of all software bugs. The multicore technology trend worsens this problem. Most previous concurrency bug detect...
Virtual machines (VMs) are commonly used to distribute programs in an architecture-neutral format, which can easily be interpreted or compiled. A long-running question in the desi...
Yunhe Shi, David Gregg, Andrew Beatty, M. Anton Er...
It is now common for Web sites to use active Web content, such as Flash, Silverlight, or Java applets, to support rich, interactive applications. For many mobile devices, however,...
Alexander Moshchuk, Steven D. Gribble, Henry M. Le...
Java supports distributed programming using threads and Remote Method Invocation (JRMI). However, a Java thread does not match well with the object concept, and JRMI cannot easily...
Miguel Katrib, Iskander Sierra, Mario del Valle, T...
The SLG-WAM of XSB Prolog soundly implements the Well-Founded Semantics (WFS) for logic programs, but in a few pathological cases its engine treats atoms as undefined that are true...