Dynamic languages are becoming widely used in software engineering due to the flexibility
needs of specific software systems. Different example scenarios are the development of …

Abstract The Big Code and Mining Software Repositories research lines analyze large
amounts of source code to improve software engineering practices. Massive codebases are …

The development of service robots has gained more attention over the last years. Advanced
robots have to cope with many different situations emerging at runtime, while executing …

Multiple dispatch allows determining the actual method to be executed, depending on the
dynamic types of its arguments. Although some programming languages provide multiple …

Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD) provides systematic means to modularize
crosscutting concerns in software development. Common AOSD benefits are a higher level …

The measurement of the resources consumed by an application at runtime is an important
task in different scenarios such as program optimization, malware and bug detection, and …

The separation of concerns design principle improves software reutilization,
understandability, extensibility and maintainability. By using the objectoriented paradigm, it …

The structured query language (SQL) is not only the de-facto standard for defining data base
(DB) queries, it is also known as being one of the most widely used domain-specific …

BACKGROUND Many computer programs model problems as sets of inter-related objects.
During execution, such programs per form operations on objects that are stored as data …

Type systems are aimed at preventing programming language constructions from having
wrong behavior at runtime. Different formalisms are used to guarantee that a type system is …