Lazy programs are beautiful, but they are slow because they build many thunks. Simple measurements show that most of these thunks are unnecessary: they are in fact always evaluate...
We show how a series of transformations can be applied to a sequential program to obtain programs that represent successive steps in exploiting parallelism in the original algorit...
Lei Pan, Wenhui Zhang, Arthur Asuncion, Ming Kin L...
Databases may not satisfy integrity constraints (ICs) for several reasons. Nevertheless, in most of the cases an important part of the data is still consistent wrt certain desired...
Debugging is one of the essential parts of the software development cycle. However, the usual debugging techniques used in imperative languages such as the step by step execution ...
A declarative programming language has two kinds of semantics. The tract helps in reasoning about speci cations and correctness, while an operational semantics determines the mann...