Crowd sourcing is evolving as a distributed problem-solving and business production model
in recent years. In crowd sourcing paradigm, tasks are distributed to networked people to …

Software evolves to fix bugs and add features. Stopping and restarting programs to apply
changes is inconvenient and often costly. Dynamic software updating (DSU) addresses this …

Many opportunities for easy, big-win, program optimizations are missed by compilers. This is
especially true in highly layered Java applications. Often at the heart of these missed …

Generally believed to be a problem belonging to the compiler and architecture communities,
performance optimization has rarely gained attention in mainstream software engineering …

Runtime bloat degrades significantly the performance and scalability of software systems.
An important source of bloat is the inefficient use of containers. It is expensive to create …

Android devices include many embedded resources such as Camera, Media Player and
Sensors. These resources require programmers to explicitly request and release them …

Memory leaks are usually not associated with runtime environments with automatic garbage
collection; however, memory leaks do happen in such environments and present a …

In large programs written in managed languages such as Java and C#, holding
unnecessary references often results in memory leaks and bloat, degrading significantly …

Real-world data-parallel programs commonly suffer from great memory pressure, especially
when they are executed to process large datasets. Memory problems lead to excessive GC …

Despite huge software engineering efforts and programming language support, resource
and memory leaks are still a troublesome issue, even in memory-managed languages such …