Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) started fifteen years ago with the remark that modularization of so-called crosscutting functionalities is a fundamental problem for the enginee...
In September of 1998, the College of Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth piloted an innovative, integrated, first-year curriculum. It dramatically changed 31 ...
Paul J. Fortier, Emily Fowler, Raymond N. Laoulach...
In the Design By Contract (DBC) approach, programmers specify methods with pre and postconditions (also called contracts). Earlier work added protocols to the DBC approach to desc...
We introduce a new synchronization problem in mobile ad-hoc systems: the Driving Philosophers. In this problem, an unbounded number of driving philosophers (processes) access a rou...
All object-oriented languages provide support for subtype polymorphism, which allows the writing of generic code that works for families of related types. There is also a need, ho...
Mark Day, Robert Gruber, Barbara Liskov, Andrew C....