Legacy applications can be difficult and time-consuming to understand and update due to the lack of modern abstraction mechanisms in legacy languages, as well as the gradual dete...
The mainstream adoption of cluster, grid, and most recently cloud computing models have broadened the applicability of parallel programming from scientific communities to
the bus...
In global computing applications the availability of a mechanism for some form of committed choice can be useful, and sometimes necessary. It can conveniently handle, e.g., distrib...
Exceptions are one of the most pervasive problems in process support systems. In installations expected to handle a large number of processes, having exceptions is bound to be a n...
Abstract. Modern dialects of Fortran enjoy wide use and good support on highperformance computers as performance-oriented programming languages. By providing the ability to express...