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A transient hardware fault occurs when an energetic particle strikes a transistor, causing it to change state. These faults do not cause permanent damage, but may result in incorrect program execution by altering signal transfers or stored values. While the likelihood that such t…
Transient faults that arise in large-scale software systems can often be repaired by re-executing the code in which they occur. Ascribing a meaningful semantics for safe re-execution in multi-threaded code is not obvious, however. For a thread to correctly rexecute a region of co…
Pluggable types have been proposed to support multiple type systems in the same programming language. We have designed and implemented JavaCOP, a program constraint system for implementing practical pluggable type systems for Java. JavaCOP enforces user-defined typing constraints…
Large amounts of Java software have been written since the language's escape into unsuspecting software ecology more than ten years ago. Surprisingly little is known about the structure of Java programs in the wild: about the way methods are grouped into classes and then into pac…
Since benchmarks drive computer science research and industry product development, which ones we use and how we evaluate them are key questions for the community. Despite complex runtime tradeoffs due to dynamic compilation and garbage collection required for Java programs, many …
Current approaches to compiling aspect-oriented programs are in-efficient. This inefficiency has negative effects on the productiv-ity of the development process and is especially prohibitive for dynamic aspect deployment. In this work, we present how well-known virtual machine t…
Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) is increasingly gaining in popularity. However, the focus of aspect-oriented language research has been mostly on language design issues; efficient implementation techniques have been less popular. As a result, the performance of certain AOP cons…
A Case for Scannerless Generalized-LR Parsing Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) is attracting attention from both research and industry, as illustrated by the ever-growing popularity of AspectJ, the de facto standard AOP extension of Java. From a compiler construction perspective…
Determining the best set of optimizations to apply to a program has been a long standing problem for compiler writers. To reduce the complexity of this task, existing approaches typically apply the same set of optimizations to all procedures within a program, without regard to th…
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We present an overview of JTL (the Java Tools Language, pronounced "Gee-tel"), a novel language for querying JAVA [8] programs. JTL was designed to serve the development of source code software tools for JAVA, and as a small language which to aid programming language extensions t…
This paper presents novel language and analysis techniques that significantly speed up software model checking of data structure properties. Consider checking a red-black tree implementation. Traditional software model checkers systematically generate all red-black tree states (w…
The proxy abstraction has a longlasting tradition in object settings. From design pattern to inherent language support, from remote method invocations to simple forms of behavioral reflection - incarnations as well as applications of proxies are innumerable.Since version 1.3, Jav…
Object oriented frameworks impose additional burdens on programmers that libraries did not, such as requiring the programmer to understand the method callback sequence, respecting behavior constraints within these methods, and devising solutions within a constrained solution spac…
Software needs to grow up and become responsible for itself and its own future by participating in its own installation and customization, maintaining its own health, and adapting itself to new circumstances, new users, and new uses. To create such software will require us to cha…
Generic programming has emerged as an important technique for the development of highly reusable and efficient software libraries. In C++, generic programming is enabled by the flexibility of templates, the C++ type parametrization mechanism. However, the power of templates comes…
We describe DSTM2, a Java™ software library that provides a flexible framework for implementing object-based software transactional memory (STM). The library uses transactional factories to transform sequential (unsynchronized) classes into atomic (transactionally synchronized) o…
In mainstream OO languages, inheritance can be used to add new methods, or to override existing methods. Virtual classes and feature oriented programming are techniques which extend the mechanism of inheritance so that it is possible to refine nested classes as well. These techni…
Aspect-oriented requirements analysis involves the identification of concerns that behaviorally influence other concerns. Such concerns are described in requirements called emphaspectual requirements: requirements that detail the influence of one concern over another. The current…
Software deployment is a complex process, and industrial-strength frameworks such as .NET, Java, and CORBA all provide explicit support for component deployment. However, these frameworks are not built around fundamental principles as much as they are engineering efforts closely …