An important means of validating the design of commercial-grade shared memory multiprocessors is to run a large number of pseudo-random test programs on them. However, when intent...
Research on agent communication languages has typically taken the speech acts paradigm as its starting point. Despite their manifest attractions, speech-act models of communicatio...
We present an interior-point penalty method for nonlinear programming (NLP), where the merit function consists of a piecewise linear penalty function (PLPF) and an 2-penalty functi...
Most compiler optimizations and software productivity tools rely on information about the effects of pointer dereferences in a program. The purpose of points-to analysis is to com...
The Declared Type Generalization Checker is a plug-in for Eclipse’s Java Development Tools (JDT) that supports developers in systematically finding and using better fitting types...