One of the challenges present to a Java compiler is Java’s frequent use of runtime exceptions. These exceptions affect performance directly by requiring explicit checks, as wel...
Matthew Arnold, Michael S. Hsiao, Ulrich Kremer, B...
Frameworks promote design and code reuse, at a higher level of granularity. The use of frameworks is a hard task though, because usually they lack documentation and instructions o...
Aliasing is endemic in object oriented programming. Because an object can be modified via any alias, object oriented programs are hard to understand, maintain, and analyse. Flexibl...
ÐThis paper describes MTSim, an extensible, customizable simulation platform for the Modechart toolset (MT). MTSim provides support for ªplugging inº user-defined viewers useful...
Monica Brockmeyer, Farnam Jahanian, Constance L. H...
An iterator is proposed that allows to apply sequences of update operations in a set-oriented way with deterministic semantics. Because the mechanism is independent of a particula...