Program verification is a promising approach to improving program quality, because it can search all possible program executions for specific errors. However, the need to formally...
Glenn Ammons, James R. Larus, Rastislav Bodí...
Proof assistants based on type theories, such as Coq and Lego, allow users to omit subterms on input that can be inferred automatically. While those mechanisms are well known, ad-h...
Snapshot isolation (SI) provides significantly improved concurrency over 2PL, allowing reads to be non-blocking. Unfortunately, it can also lead to non-serializable executions in ...
Sudhir Jorwekar, Alan Fekete, Krithi Ramamritham, ...
Schema matching identifies elements of two given schemas that correspond to each other. Although there are many algorithms for schema matching, little has been written about build...
Philip A. Bernstein, Sergey Melnik, Michalis Petro...
The knowledge required to develop complex software has historically existed in programming folklore, the heads of experienced developers, or buried deep in the code. These locatio...