The development of programming skills is a motivating issue in computer science. Programming languages have been increasingly used to map end-users needs and mental models. The nu...
On the evening of 2 November 1988, someone “infected” the Internet with a worm program. That program exploited flaws in utility programs in systems based on BSD-derived versi...
This chapter presents a dynamic denotational semantics of the Java programming language. This semantics covers almost the full range of the base language, excluding only concurrenc...
Logic programs under the stable models semantics, or answer-set programs, provide an expressive rule based knowledge representation framework, featuring formal, declarative and wel...
Data structures often use an integer variable to keep track of the number of elements they store. An invariant of such data structure is that the value of the integer variable is ...