Garbage collection can be a performance bottleneck in large distributed, multi-threaded applications. Applications may produce millions of objects during their lifetimes and may i...
Recently, there has been much interest in developing analyzes to detect concurrency bugs that arise because of data races, atomicity violations, execution omission, etc. However, ...
Dasarath Weeratunge, Xiangyu Zhang, William N. Sum...
Separation of concerns has been central to software engineering for decades, yet its many advantages are still not fully realized. A key reason is that traditional modularization ...
Peri L. Tarr, William H. Harrison, Harold Ossher, ...
Predictive models in direct marketing seek to identify individuals most likely to respond to promotional solicitations or other intervention programs. While standard modeling appr...
Integrated circuit cards or smart cards are now well-known. Applications such as electronic purses (cash units stored in cards), subscriber identification cards used in cellular te...