Abstract— This paper presents Meld, a programming language for modular robots, i.e., for independently executing robots where inter-robot communication is limited to immediate ne...
Michael P. Ashley-Rollman, Seth Copen Goldstein, P...
Analysis and design by contract allows the definition of a formal agreement between a class and its clients, expressing each party’s rights and obligations. Contracts written in ...
Wojciech J. Dzidek, Lionel C. Briand, Yvan Labiche
The term inheritance anomaly was coined in 1993 by Matsuoka and Yonezawa [15] to refer to the problems arising by the coexistence of inheritance and concurrency in concurrent obje...
Network programming is notoriously hard to understand: one has to deal with a variety of protocols (IP, ICMP, UDP, TCP etc), concurrency, packet loss, host failure, timeouts, the c...
The recent enormous increase in the use of networked information access and on-line databases has led to more databases being available in languages other than English. The Center...