is an important optimization for programs that use procedural abstraction. Because inlining trades code size for execution speed, the effectiveness of an inlining algorithm is det...
Library writers wish to provide a guarantee not only that each procedure in the library performs correctly in isolation, but also that the procedures perform correctly when run in ...
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
Ibis1 is a programming environment for the development of grid applications in Java. We aim to support a wide range of applications and parallel platforms, so our example programs ...
Kees van Reeuwijk, Rob van Nieuwpoort, Henri E. Ba...
Probabilistic B (pB) [2, 8] extends classical B [7] to incorporate probabilistic updates together with the specification of quantitative safety properties. As for classical B, prob...