Garbage collection yields numerous software engineering benefits, but its quantitative impact on performance remains elusive. One can compare the cost of conservative garbage col...
The realization of multimedia systems still heavily relies on building monolithic systems that need to be reengineered for every change in the application and little of which can ...
Abstract Fabio Massacci1 and Nicola Zannone1 Department of Information and Communication Technology University of Trento - Italy {massacci,zannone} at dit.unitn.it The last years h...
Because the concept of program correctness is generally taught as an activity independent of the programming process, most introductory computer science (CS) students perceive it ...
Timothy S. Gegg-Harrison, Gary R. Bunce, Rebecca D...
We propose a low-overhead sampling infrastructure for gathering information from the executions experienced by a program’s user community. Several example applications illustrat...
Ben Liblit, Alexander Aiken, Alice X. Zheng, Micha...