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MSR
2006
ACM
16 years 21 days ago
Are refactorings less error-prone than other changes?
Refactorings are program transformations which should preserve the program behavior. Consequently, we expect that during phases when there are mostly refactorings in the change hi...
Peter Weißgerber, Stephan Diehl
PLDI
2006
ACM
16 years 21 days ago
Effective static race detection for Java
We present a novel technique for static race detection in Java programs, comprised of a series of stages that employ a combination of static analyses to successively reduce the pa...
Mayur Naik, Alex Aiken, John Whaley
SAC
2006
ACM
16 years 21 days ago
Provably faithful evaluation of polynomials
We provide sufficient conditions that formally guarantee that the floating-point computation of a polynomial evaluation is faithful. To this end, we develop a formalization of ...
Sylvie Boldo, César Muñoz
SIGCSE
2006
ACM
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Case-based analysis: a practical tool for teaching computer ethics
Case-based analysis is a bottom-up methodology for ethical reasoning. In a teaching environment, it can be a useful alternative to top-down methods, such as Kantianism, utilitaria...
Michael J. Quinn
SIGIR
2006
ACM
16 years 21 days ago
Why structural hints in queries do not help XML-retrieval
For many years it has been commonly held that a user who adds structural “hints” to a query will improve precision in an element retrieval search. At INEX 2005 we conducted an...
Andrew Trotman, Mounia Lalmas