What You See Is Not What You eXecute: computers do not execute source-code programs; they execute machine-code programs that are generated from source code. Not only can the WYSINW...
Gogul Balakrishnan, Thomas W. Reps, David Melski, ...
Abstract. To be able to build systems by composing a variety of components dynamically, adding and removing as required, is desirable. Unfortunately systems with evolving architect...
Robert Chatley, Susan Eisenbach, Jeff Kramer, Jeff...
Abstract. This paper studies a recently developed an approach to reasoning about mutable data structures, which uses an assertion language with spatial conjunction and implication ...
Cristiano Calcagno, Hongseok Yang, Peter W. O'Hear...
One of the challenges present to a Java compiler is Java’s frequent use of runtime exceptions. These exceptions affect performance directly by requiring explicit checks, as wel...
Matthew Arnold, Michael S. Hsiao, Ulrich Kremer, B...
Service-based systems engineering is a recent paradigm that has proven useful for the development of multifunctional systems, whose functions may be used in different contexts and...