Systems software uses conditional compilation to manage crosscutting concerns in a very fine-grained and efficient way, but at the expense of tangled and scattered conditional c...
Bram Adams, Wolfgang De Meuter, Herman Tromp, Ahme...
Abstract. Transactional memory (TM) promises to simplify construction of parallel applications by allowing programmers to reason about interactions between concurrently executing c...
Haris Volos, Adam Welc, Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai, Ta...
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...
—Interaction with mobile devices that are intended for everyday use is challenging since such systems are continuously optimized towards small outlines. Watches are a particularl...
Roman Amstutz, Oliver Amft, Brian French, Asim Sma...
—A key agreement protocol is a protocol whereby two or more communicating parties can agree on a key or exchange information over an open communication network in such a way that...