The term distributed computing conjures the image of a fixed network structure whose nodes support the execution of processes that communicate with each other via messages traveli...
Gruia-Catalin Roman, Gian Pietro Picco, Amy L. Mur...
: One of the consequences of evolution can be the inability to access objects created using the older schema definition under the new definition and vice versa. Instance adaptation...
Heterogeneous parallel systems incorporate diverse models of parallelism within a single machine or across machines and are better suited for diverse applications 25, 43, 30]. Thes...
Kathryn S. McKinley, Sharad Singhai, Glen E. Weave...
We present a formulation of interconnection models and present the unit and syntactic models -- the primary models used for managing the evolution of large software systems. We di...
Runtime assertion checking is useful for debugging programs and specifications. Existing tools check invariants as well as method preand postconditions, but mostly ignore assignabl...