: There are many different ways to specify the requirements of complex software systems, and the optimal methods often vary according to the problem domain. We apply and compare tw...
Dependencies between iterations of loop structures cannot always be determined at compile-time because they may depend on input data which is known only at run-time. A prime examp...
V. Prasad Krothapalli, Thulasiraman Jeyaraman, Mar...
Class sharing is a new language mechanism for building extensible software systems. Recent work has separately explored two different kinds of extensibility: first, family inherit...
Intensional polymorphism, the ability to dispatch to different routines based on types at run time, enables a variety of advanced implementation techniques for polymorphic languag...
Karl Crary, Stephanie Weirich, J. Gregory Morriset...
Existing languages provide good support for typeful programming of standalone programs. In a distributed system, however, there may be interaction between multiple instances of ma...
Peter Sewell, James J. Leifer, Keith Wansbrough, F...