Beginning with BETA, a range of programming language mechanisms such as virtual classes (class-valued attributes of objects) have been developed to allow inheritance in the presen...
Dave Clarke, Sophia Drossopoulou, James Noble, Tob...
Design rules express constraints on the behavior and structure of a program. These rules can help ensure that a program follows a set of established practices, and avoids certain ...
We describe the formalization of a correctness proof for a conflict detection algorithm for firewalls in the Coq Proof Assistant. First, we give formal definitions in Coq of a fir...
Venanzio Capretta, Bernard Stepien, Amy P. Felty, ...
The nDCG measure has proven to be a popular measure of retrieval effectiveness utilizing graded relevance judgments. However, a number of different instantiations of nDCG exist, d...
The analogy between types and contracts raises the question of how many features of static type systems can be expressed as dynamic contracts. An important feature missing in prio...
Arjun Guha, Jacob Matthews, Robert Bruce Findler, ...