Addressing the preservation and long-term access issues for digital resources is one of the key challenges facing informational organisations such as libraries, archives, cultural ...
Abstract. We describe support for modularity in Newspeak, a programming language descended from Smalltalk [33] and Self [69]. Like Self, all computation — even an object’s own ...
Abstract. Recently, component-based application developments to improve the software productivity and reusability have attracted our attention. The components are parts for buildin...
Legacy software systems present a high level of entropy combined with imprecise documentation. This makes their maintenance more difficult, more time consuming, and costlier. In o...
A class of database programs exist which are required to operate over an infinite number of types; included in this class are object browsers and query tools. The types over which...