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Language Support for Distributed Functional Programming

Software development has taken a fundamental turn. Software today has gone from simple, closed programs running on a single machine, to massively open programs, patching together user experiences byway of responses received via hundreds of network requests ...

EPFL2015

Spores: A Type-Based Foundation for Closures in the Age of Concurrency and Distribution

Martin Odersky, Philipp Haller

Functional programming (FP) is regularly touted as the way forward for bringing parallel, concurrent, and distributed programming to the mainstream. The popularity of the rationale behind this viewpoint (immutable data transformed by function application) ...

2014

Additional Material for "Unifying Data Representation Transformations"

Vlad Ureche

This report shows an attempt to formalize the data representation transformation mechanism in the ``Unifying Data Representation Transformations'' paper. Since the mechanism described in the paper is targeted at the Scala programming language and the speci ...

2014

Spores, Formally

Philipp Haller

2013

Software Synthesis Procedures

Viktor Kuncak, Mikaël Mayer, Philippe Paul Henri Suter, Ruzica Piskac

Automated synthesis of program fragments from specifications can make programs easier to write and easier to reason about. To integrate synthesis into programming languages, software synthesis algorithms should behave in a predictable way: they should succ ...

2012

Implementing a Type Debugger for Scala

Martin Odersky, Hubert Plociniczak

Statically-typed languages offer type systems that are less and less comprehensible for programmers as the language grows in complexity. In this paper, we present a type debugger, a tool that enables analysis of type-related problems as well as exploration ...

2012

A Programming Workshop using the Robot "Thymio II": The Effect on the Understanding by Children

Francesco Mondada, Michael Bonani, Stéphane Magnenat, Fanny Riedo

Robots are both fascinating objects for the general public and devices whose conception, understanding and pro- gramming involve many fields. This unique combination makes them an ideal tool for introducing science and technology to children. This paper pr ...

IEEE2012

On Interactive Synthesis of Code Snippets

Viktor Kuncak, Tihomir Gvero, Ruzica Piskac

We describe a tool that applies theorem proving technology to synthesize code fragments that use given library functions. Our approach takes into account polymorphic type constraints as well as code behavior. We have found our system to be useful for synth ...

2011

Finding Almost-Invariants in Distributed Systems

Dejan Kostic, Marco Canini, Maysam Yabandeh

It is notoriously hard to develop dependable distributed systems. This is partly due to the difficulties in foreseeing various corner cases and failure scenarios while implementing a system that will be deployed over an asynchronous network. In contrast, r ...

2011

Opis: Reliable Distributed Systems in OCaml

Viktor Kuncak, Dejan Kostic, Pierre-Evariste Dagand

Concurrency and distribution pose algorithmic and implementation challenges in developing reliable distributed systems, making the field an excellent testbed for evaluating programming language and verification paradigms. Several specialized domain-specifi ...

2009