Software developers spend most of their time modifying and maintaining existing products. This is because systems, and consequently their design, are in perpetual evolution before ...
Academic research sometimes suffers from the “ivory tower” problem: some ideas that sound good in theory do not necessarily work well in practice. An example of research that ...
Joseph E. Hollingsworth, Lori Blankenship, Bruce W...
A number of recent systems have provided rich facilities for manipulating the timelines of applications. Such timelines represent the history of an application’s use in some ses...
W. Keith Edwards, Takeo Igarashi, Anthony LaMarca,...
Abstract-- The efficacy of end-to-end multicast transport protocols depends critically upon their ability to scale efficiently to a large number of receivers. Several research mult...
We discuss aspects of inlining of virtual method invocations. First, we introduce a new method test to guard inlinings of such invocations, with a di erent set of tradeo s from the...