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ICSE
2009
IEEE-ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Listening to programmers - Taxonomies and characteristics of comments in operating system code
Innovations from multiple directions have been proposed to improve software reliability. Unfortunately, many of the innovations are not fully exploited by programmers. To bridge t...
Yoann Padioleau, Lin Tan, Yuanyuan Zhou
FM
2009
Springer
155views Formal Methods» more  FM 2009»
14 years 3 months ago
Towards an Operational Semantics for Alloy
Abstract. The Alloy modeling language has a mathematically rigorous denotational semantics based on relational algebra. Alloy specifications often represent operations on a state,...
Theophilos Giannakopoulos, Daniel J. Dougherty, Ka...
GECCO
2007
Springer
159views Optimization» more  GECCO 2007»
14 years 3 months ago
A systemic computation platform for the modelling and analysis of processes with natural characteristics
Computation in biology and in conventional computer architectures seem to share some features, yet many of their important characteristics are very different. To address this, [1]...
Erwan Le Martelot, Peter J. Bentley, R. Beau Lotto
ICCS
2007
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Creating Individual Based Models of the Plankton Ecosystem
Abstract. The Virtual Ecology Workbench (VEW) is a suite of utilities for creating, executing and analysing biological models of the ocean. At its core is a mathematical language a...
Wes Hinsley, Tony Field, John Woods
SEFM
2006
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Describing and Executing Random Reactive Systems
We present an operational model for describing random reactive systems. Some models have already been proposed for this purpose, but they generally aim at performing global reason...
Pascal Raymond, Erwan Jahier, Yvan Roux