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...
This paper describes wildcards, a new language construct designed to increase the flexibility of object-oriented type systems with parameterized classes. Based on the notion of v...
Mads Torgersen, Christian Plesner Hansen, Erik Ern...
Type safety and expressiveness of many existing Java libraries and their client applications would improve, if the libraries were upgraded to define generic classes. Efficient and...
Adam Kiezun, Michael D. Ernst, Frank Tip, Robert M...
This article presents a heap space analysis for (sequential) Java bytecode. The analysis generates heap space cost relations which define at compile-time the heap consumption of ...
Checkpointing and replaying is an attractive technique that has been used widely at the operating/runtime system level to provide fault tolerance. Applying such a technique at the...