Program transformation is an appealing technique which allows to improve run-time efficiency, space-consumption and more generally to optimize a given program. Essentially it con...
Paolo Tacchella, Maurizio Gabbrielli, Maria Chiara...
Two object-oriented programming language paradigms— dynamic, prototype-based languages and multi-method languages— provide orthogonal benefits to software engineers. These two...
Reasoning about program equivalence is one of the oldest problems in semantics. In recent years, useful techniques have been developed, based on bisimulations and logical relation...
r of high-level languages lies in their abstraction over hardware and software complexity, leading to greater security, better reliability, and lower development costs. However, o...
Daniel Frampton, Stephen M. Blackburn, Perry Cheng...
Agent-based computing in Arti cial Intelligence has given rise to a number of diverse and competing proposals for agent programming languages. Agents, in the sense we are using it...
Koen V. Hindriks, Frank S. de Boer, Wiebe van der ...