Objects model the world, and state is fundamental to a faithful modeling. Engineers use state machines to understand and reason about state transitions, but programming languages ...
Jonathan Aldrich, Joshua Sunshine, Darpan Saini, Z...
Side effects are both the essence and bane of imperative programming. The programmer must carefully coordinate actions to manage their side effects upon each other. Such coordinat...
—In the crash-recovery failure model of asynchronous distributed systems, processes can temporarily stop to execute steps and later restart their computation from a predefined l...
Felix C. Freiling, Christian Lambertz, Mila E. Maj...
Abstract. With widespread use of microarray technology as a potential diagnostics tool, the comparison of results obtained from the use of different platforms is of interest. When...
Abstract. [Context and motivation] Ever-growing systems’ complexity and novel requirements engineering approaches such as reuse or globalization imply that requirements are produ...