Systems programs rely on fine-grain control of data representation and use of state to achieve performance, conformance to hardware specification, and temporal predictability. T...
Dynamic compilers can optimize application code specifically for observed code behavior. Such behavior does not have to be stable across the entire program execution to be bene...
Christian Wimmer, Marcelo Silva Cintra, Michael Be...
The starting point for software evolution is usually a change request, expressing the new or updated requirements on the delivered system. The requirements specified in a change ...
Filippo Ricca, Marco Torchiano, Mariano Ceccato, P...
Events play an important role in the construction of most software that involves interaction or simulation. Typically, programmers make use of a fixed set of low level events supp...
Tools and a design methodology have been developed to support partial run-time reconfiguration of FPGA logic on the Field Programmable Port Extender. High-speed Internet packet pr...
Edson L. Horta, John W. Lockwood, David E. Taylor,...