One of the most important decisions about the architecture of a server program is its concurrency mechanisms. However, a good concurrency model for general-purpose server programs ...
Commitment-modeled protocols enable flexible and robust interactions among agents. However, existing work has focused on features and capabilities of protocols without considerin...
The Java language lacks the important notions of ownership (an object owns its representation to prevent unwanted aliasing) and immutability (the division into mutable, immutable,...
Yoav Zibin, Alex Potanin, Paley Li, Mahmood Ali, M...
Abstract. Virtual machines (VMs) emulating hardware devices are generally implemented in low-level languages for performance reasons. This results in unmaintainable systems that ar...
—Code modularization provides benefits throughout the software life cycle; however, the presence of crosscutting concerns (CCCs) in software hinders its complete modularization....