Reference counting is a widely-used resource management idiom which maintains a count of references to each resource by incrementing the count upon an acquisition, and decrementing...
Michael Emmi, Ranjit Jhala, Eddie Kohler, Rupak Ma...
Separation logic is a Hoare-style logic for reasoning about programs with heap-allocated mutable data structures. As a step toward extending separation logic to high-level language...
Jan Schwinghammer, Lars Birkedal, Bernhard Reus, H...
It is becoming increasingly important to be able to adapt an application’s behavior at run time in response to changing requirements and environmental conditions. Adaptive progr...
Bluespec is a high-level hardware description language used for architectural exploration, hardware modeling and synthesis of semiconductor chips. In Bluespec, one views hardware ...
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