Vulnerabilities in distributed applications are being uncovered and exploited faster than software engineers can patch the security holes. All too often these weaknesses result fr...
For many programs, especially integer codes, untolerated load instruction latencies account for a significant portion of total execution time. In this paper, we present the desig...
Todd M. Austin, Dionisios N. Pnevmatikatos, Gurind...
Most robot designers make the mechanical interface between an actuator and its load as stiff as possible[9][10]. This makes sense in traditional position-controlled systems, becau...
Gill A. Pratt, Matthew M. Williamson, Peter Dilwor...
The notion of a program slice, originally introduced by Mark Weiser, is a fundamental operation for addressing many software-engineering problems, including program understanding,...
Contracts and specifications have long been used in object-oriented design, programming and testing to enhance reliability before software deployment. However, the use of specifica...