To ease the development of geo-distributed applications, replicated data types (RDTs) offer a familiar programming interface while ensuring state convergence, low latency, and high availability. However, RDTs are still designed exclusively by experts using ad-hoc solutions that error-prone result in brittle systems. Recent works statically detect conflicting operations on existing coordinate th...

This paper presents a pattern that provides a structure for implementing distribution using AOP — aspect-oriented programming. The main goal is to achieve better separation of concerns avoiding tangled code (code with different concerns interlacing to each other) and spread code (code regarding one concern scattered in several units of the system). Therefore, system modularity, and hence, maint...

This article presents a complete scheme for the development of Critical Embedded Systems with Multiple Real-Time Constraints. The system is programmed with a language that extends the synchronous approach with high-level real-time primitives. It enables to assemble in a modular and hierarchical manner several locally mono-periodic synchronous systems into a globally multi-periodic synchronous s...

Shows how the hierarchical Dirichlet process (HDP) may be implemented in a simple way, following the idea that the HDP is an extension to its parametric counterpart, latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA). Document version: draft, version 0.92, 20 Feb. 2011 (version 0.1: May 2008).

Compared to dynamic object-oriented languages like CommonLisp or Smalltalk, Java has a fairly simple and restrictive object and type system. Some of the key differences between Java and these other languages is that they offer structural conformance, automatic delegation, and dynamic mixins. When such constructs are needed in a language like Java, they are usually expressed in terms of standard...

Software restructuring is a form of perfective maintenance that modifies the structure of a program’s source code. Its goal is increased maintainability to better facilitate other maintenance activities, such as adding new functionality to, or correcting previously undetected errors within a software system. Changes to the structure are introduced through the application of transformations. Man...