Analysis and design by contract allows the definition of a formal agreement between a class and its clients, expressing each party’s rights and obligations. Contracts written in ...
Wojciech J. Dzidek, Lionel C. Briand, Yvan Labiche
UML statechart diagrams have become an important technique for describing the dynamic behavior of a software system. They are also a significant element of OO design, especially in...
This paper presents the design of a read-optimized relational DBMS that contrasts sharply with most current systems, which are write-optimized. Among the many differences in its d...
Michael Stonebraker, Daniel J. Abadi, Adam Batkin,...
Abstract. We present an analysis to verify abstract set specifications for programs that use object field values to determine the membership of objects in abstract sets. In our a...
Abstract. IBM is currently developing the new line of BlueGene/L supercomputers. The top-of-the-line installation is planned to be a 65,536 processors system featuring a peak perfo...
Franz Franchetti, Stefan Kral, Juergen Lorenz, Mar...