Abstract--Many shared-memory parallel systems use lockbased synchronization mechanisms to provide mutual exclusion or reader-writer access to memory locations. Software locks are i...
Bitwise operations are commonly used in low-level systems code to access multiple data fields that have been packed into a single word. Program analysis tools that reason about s...
During the life cycle of an XML application, both schemas and queries may change from one version to another. Schema evolutions may affect query results and potentially the validi...
Analysis and design patterns are well established as a convenient and reusable way to build high-quality object-oriented software. Patterns combine experience and good practices t...
A standard notation, that unambiguously expresses different aspects of a system, is important to the process of software development. The expressiveness of a standard notation hel...
Satyajit Acharya, Hrushikesha Mohanty, R. K. Shyam...