Design by Contract (DbC) is widely acknowledged to be a powerful technique for creating reliable software. DbC allows developers to specify the behavior of an operation precisely ...
The term inheritance anomaly was coined in 1993 by Matsuoka and Yonezawa [15] to refer to the problems arising by the coexistence of inheritance and concurrency in concurrent obje...
We present a new limited form of interprocedural analysis called field analysis that can be used by a compiler to reduce the costs of modern language features such as objectorien...
Sanjay Ghemawat, Keith H. Randall, Daniel J. Scale...
The IA-64, Intel's 64-bit instruction set architecture, exhibits a number of interesting architectural features. Here we consider those features as they relate to supporting ...
Richard L. Hudson, J. Eliot B. Moss, Sreenivas Sub...
Research on how to reason about correctness properties of software systems using model checking is advancing rapidly. Work on exnite-state models from program source code and on ab...
James C. Corbett, Matthew B. Dwyer, John Hatcliff,...