As libraries are the most widespread form of software reuse, the usability of their APIs substantially influences the productivity of programmers in all software development phas...
Modern software systems are typically large and complex, making comprehension of these systems extremely difficult. Experienced programmers comprehend code by seamlessly processi...
Giriprasad Sridhara, Emily Hill, Lori L. Pollock, ...
—High level languages greatly increase the power of a programmer at the cost of programs that consume more s than those written at a lower level of abstraction. This inefficienc...
Ray tracing is a technique used for generating highly realistic computer graphics images. In this paper, we explore the design of a simple but extremely parallel, multi-threaded, ...
Josef B. Spjut, Solomon Boulos, Daniel Kopta, Erik...
Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) strives to localize the scattered and tangled implementations of crosscutting concerns (CCCs) by allowing developers to declare that certain acti...