It is well known that the performance of a program can often be improved by means of program transformation. Several program transformation techniques, eg. partial evaluation, wor...
Given the bytecode of a software system, is it possible to automatically generate attack signatures that reveal its vulnerabilities? A natural solution would be symbolically execu...
We present the application of customized code generation to database query evaluation. The idea is to use a collection of highly efficient code templates and dynamically instantiat...
Software systems are typically modified in order to extend or change their functionality, improve their performance, port them to different platforms, and so on. For developers, i...
Spiros Mancoridis, Brian S. Mitchell, Yih-Farn Che...
Currently the key problems of query optimization are extensibility imposed by object-relational technology, as well as query complexity caused by forthcoming applications, such as...