Dynamic languages such as Javascript are the de-facto standard for web applications. However, generating efficient code for dynamically-typed languages is a challenge, because it...
Owen Anderson, Emily Fortuna, Luis Ceze, Susan Egg...
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....
Transactional Memory (TM) simplifies parallel programming by supporting atomic and isolated execution of user-identified tasks. To date, TM programming has required the use of l...
Woongki Baek, Chi Cao Minh, Martin Trautmann, Chri...
This paper presents a type-based solution to the long-standing problem of object initialization. Constructors, the conventional mechanism for object initialization, have semantics...
Abstract. When smart objects participate in context-aware applications, changes in their real-world environment can have a significant impact on underlying networking structures. ...