This thesis addresses the problem of source quality changes in Data Integration Systems. Its main goal is to propose techniques for maintaining as much as possible the satisfaction...
We reduce JavaScript to a core calculus structured as a small-step operational semantics. We present several peculiarities of the language and show that our calculus models them. W...
Despite Java’s initial promise of providing a reliable and cost-effective platform-independent environment, the language appears to be unfavourable in the area of high-integrity...
Erik Yu-Shing Hu, Andy J. Wellings, Guillem Bernat
Abstract. Transactions are a high-level alternative for low-level concurrencycontrol mechanisms such as locks, semaphores, monitors. A recent proposal for integrating transactional...
Real-time systems are notoriously difficult to design and implement, and, as many real-time problems are safety-critical, their solutions must be reliable as well as efficient and ...
Chris Andreae, Yvonne Coady, Celina Gibbs, James N...