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ESOP
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Global Principal Typing in Partially Commutative Asynchronous Sessions
We generalise a theory of multiparty session types for the π-calculus through asynchronous communication subtyping, which allows partial commutativity of actions with maximal fle...
Dimitris Mostrous, Nobuko Yoshida, Kohei Honda
ESOP
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Is Structural Subtyping Useful? An Empirical Study
Abstract. Structural subtyping is popular in research languages, but all mainstream object-oriented languages use nominal subtyping. Since languages with structural subtyping are n...
Donna Malayeri, Jonathan Aldrich
ESOP
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
All Secrets Great and Small
Tools for analysing secure information flow are almost exclusively based on ideas going back to Denning’s work from the 70’s. This approach embodies an imperfect notion of sec...
Delphine Demange, David Sands
ESOP
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Exploring the Design Space of Higher-Order Casts
This paper explores the surprisingly rich design space for the simply typed lambda calculus with casts and a dynamic type. Such a calculus is the target intermediate language of th...
Jeremy G. Siek, Ronald Garcia, Walid Taha
ESOP
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Practical Variable-Arity Polymorphism
Just as some functions have uniform behavior over distinct types, other functions have uniform behavior over distinct arities. These variable-arity functions are widely used in scr...
T. Stephen Strickland, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt, Matthi...
ESOP
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Automatic Parallelization with Separation Logic
Abstract. We present a separation logic framework which can express properties of memory separation between different points in a program. We describe an algorithm based on this fr...
Mohammad Raza, Cristiano Calcagno, Philippa Gardne...
ESOP
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
SingleTrack: A Dynamic Determinism Checker for Multithreaded Programs
Abstract. Multithreaded programs are prone to errors caused by unintended interference between concurrent threads. This paper focuses on verifying that deterministically-parallel c...
Caitlin Sadowski, Stephen N. Freund, Cormac Flanag...
ECOOP
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Program Metamorphosis
Modern development environments support refactoring by providing atomically behaviour-preserving transformations. While useful, these transformations are limited in three ways: (i)...
Christoph Reichenbach, Devin Coughlin, Amer Diwan
CP
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Why Cumulative Decomposition Is Not as Bad as It Sounds
Abstract. The global cumulative constraint was proposed for modelling cumulative resources in scheduling problems for finite domain (FD) propagation. Since that time a great deal ...
Andreas Schutt, Thibaut Feydy, Peter J. Stuckey, M...
CP
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Dialectic Search
We introduce Hegel and Fichte’s dialectic as a search meta-heuristic for constraint satisfaction and optimization. Dialectic is an appealing mental concept for local search as it...
Serdar Kadioglu, Meinolf Sellmann