When performing a program evolution task, developers typically spend a significant amount of effort investigating and re-investigating source code. To reduce this effort, we prop...
Constraint Logic Programming (CLP) and Abductive Logic Programming (ALP) share the important concept of conditional answer. We exploit their deep similarities to implement an effic...
Marco Gavanelli, Evelina Lamma, Paola Mello, Miche...
Abstract. Javari is an extension of Java that supports reference immutability constraints. Programmers write readonly type qualifiers and other constraints, and the Javari typechec...
Jaime Quinonez, Matthew S. Tschantz, Michael D. Er...
There have been several efforts to bring static type inference to object-oriented dynamic languages such as Ruby, Python, and Perl. In our experience, however, such type inference...
Jong-hoon (David) An, Avik Chaudhuri, Jeffrey S. F...
Abstract. We convert, via a version that uses constraints, a type inference system for strictness analysis into an algorithm which given an expression finds the set of possible typ...