Neural networks are gaining popularity in software engineering. This paper presents a dedicated API and visual environment to train and use a neural networks on software source code related data. This short paper illustrates the API using two examples ...

In this article I want to explore the relation between the process of writing computer programs with that of writing literary works of fiction. I want to see what parallels can we trace from the ideas presented by Umberto Eco in Lector in Fabula and Six ...

In this critique I argue that the motivations and direction of the `files as directories' idea are sound, but the conceptual difficulties are considerable yet non-obvious, and are not limited to those identified by the author. I highlight a selection of ...

This paper explores the concept of files as directories (FAD) as a unified interface to structured data within a file by representing such a file as (virtual) directory and the structured data as subdirectories and subfiles. Transparent conversion of ...

Aspect-oriented programming makes possible to express changes in a modular way directly at the level of programming language constructs. This is particularly useful in situations that require explicit change manipulation, such as change reapplication to ...

Emerging Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) technologies offer more capacity and energy efficiency than DRAM, but their write endurance is lower and latency is higher. Hybrid memories seek the best of both worlds — scalability, efficiency, and performance — by ...

Conventional desktop systems, such as Microsoft Windows or MacOS, are structured around applications. From a technical perspective the domain objects, such as emails or tasks, are contained within these applications. This separation of object graphs ...

Software modularity is a quality that determines how fluently individual parts (modules) of a system can vary and be understood if taken by themselves. However, modularity tends to degrade during program evolution – old concepts may get entangled with ...

Sulong is a system that tackles buffer overflows and other low-level errors in languages like C by automatically checking them and aborting execution if an error is detected. Supporting unstandardized elements such as inline assembly and compiler ...

Heterogeneous computing has emerged as a means to achieve high performance and energy efficiency. Naturally, this trend has been accompanied by changes in software development norms that do not necessarily favor programmers. A prime example is the two ...

In the recent years, we have witnessed an explosion of the usages of Virtual Machines (VMs) which are currently found in desktops, smartphones, and cloud deployments. These recent developments create new research opportunities in the VM domain extending ...

Language virtual machines (VMs), as implementation artifacts, are characterised by hard boundaries which limit their conduciveness to language interoperability, whole-system tooling, and other interactions with the `world outside'. Since the VM paradigm ...

Dynamic languages rely on native extensions written in languages such as C/C++ or Fortran. To efficiently support the execution of native extensions in the multi-lingual GraalVM, we have implemented Sulong, which executes LLVM IR to support all ...

Task granularity, i.e., the amount of work performed by parallel tasks, is a key performance attribute of parallel applications. On the one hand, fine-grained tasks (i.e., small tasks carrying out few computations) may introduce considerable ...