Design by Contract (DbC) is widely acknowledged to be a powerful technique for creating reliable software. DbC allows developers to specify the behavior of an operation precisely ...
AspectJ was designed as a seamless aspect-oriented extension of the Java programming language. However, unlike Java, AspectJ does not have a safe type system: an accepted binding ...
As multi-cores arrive for mainstream desktop systems, developers must invest the effort to parallelize their applications. We present Parallel Task (short ParaTask), a solution to ...
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...
Intense research on virtual machines has highlighted the need for flexible software architectures that allow quick evaluation of new design and implementation techniques. The inte...