Software development and maintenance are costly endeavors. The cost can be reduced if more software defects are detected earlier in the development cycle. This paper introduces th...
A memory model for a shared memory, multiprocessor commonly and often implicitly assumed by programmers is that of sequential consistency. This model guarantees that all memory ac...
Exception handling is a powerful abstraction that can be used to help manage errors and support the construction of reliable operating systems. Using exceptions to notify system co...
Francis M. David, Jeffrey C. Carlyle, Ellick Chan,...
In previous work, we have demonstrated that it is possible to use Genetic Programming to minimise the resource consumption of software, such as its power consumption or execution t...
David Robert White, Juan E. Tapiador, Julio C&eacu...
: The architecture of the IBM Cell BE processor represents a new approach for designing CPUs. The fast execution of legacy software has to stand back in order to achieve very high ...
Timo Schneider, Torsten Hoefler, Simon Wunderlich,...