The accurate formulation of boolean expressions is a notorious problem in programming languages and database query tools. This paper studies the ways that untrained users naturall...
Garbage collection has proven benefits, including fewer memoryrelated errors and reduced programmer effort. Garbage collection, however, trades space for time. It reclaims memory...
Samuel Z. Guyer, Kathryn S. McKinley, Daniel Framp...
Secure Safe Ambients (SSA) are a typed variant of Safe Ambients [9], whose type system allows behavioral invariants of ambients to be expressed and verified. The most significant a...
Some "non-' or "extra-functional" features, such as reliability, security, and tracing, defy modularization mechanisms in programming languages. This makes suc...
Eric Wohlstadter, Stoney Jackson, Premkumar T. Dev...
Creating realistic artificially-intelligent characters is seen as one of the major challenges of the commercial games industry. Historically, character behavior has been specifie...
Matthew McNaughton, James Redford, Jonathan Schaef...