Type dispatch constructs are an important feature of many programming languages. Scheme has predicates for testing the runtime type of a value. Java has a class cast expression an...
Gaining the code re-use advantages of object oriented programming requires dynamic function binding, which allows a new subclass to override a function of a superclass. Dynamic bi...
"This book has evolved from materials used in an undergraduate course intended for final year undergraduate students whose background includes at least one year's experie...
Policies form an important part of management and can be an effective means of implementing self-adaptation in pervasive systems. Most policy-based systems focus on large-scale ne...
Kevin P. Twidle, Naranker Dulay, Emil Lupu, Morris...
—In the grid context, there is little support for programming paradigms such as shared data or associative programming. We have previously proposed an original idea to attack sha...
Dacian Tudor, Georgiana Macariu, Wolfgang Schreine...