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Principal Typings in a Restricted Intersection Type System for Beta Normal Forms with De Bruijn Indices
The lambda-calculus with de Bruijn indices assembles each alpha-class of
lambda-terms in a unique term, using indices instead of variable names.
Intersection types provide finitary type polymorphism and can characterise
normalisable lambda-terms through the property that a term is normalisable if
and only if it is typeable. To be closer to computations and to simplify the
formalisation of the atomic operations involved in beta-contractions, several
calculi of explicit substitution were developed mostly with de Bruijn indices.
Versions of explicit substitutions calculi without types and with simple type
systems are well investigated in contrast to versions with more elaborate type
systems such as intersection types. In previous work, we introduced a de Bruijn
version of the lambda-calculus with an intersection type system and proved that
it preserves subject reduction, a basic property of type systems. In this paper
a version with de Bruijn indices of an intersection type system originally
introduced to characterise principal typings for beta-normal forms is
presented. We present the characterisation in this new system and the
corresponding versions for the type inference and the reconstruction of normal
forms from principal typings algorithms. We briefly discuss the failure of the
subject reduction property and some possible solutions for it
An empirical study of power consumption of Web-based communications in mobile phones
Currently, mobile devices are the most popular
pervasive computing device, and they are becoming the primer way for Web access. Energy is a critical resource in such pervasive
computing devices, being network communication one of the primary energy consuming operations in mobile apps. Indeed, web-based communication is the most used, but also energy demanding. So, mobile web developers should be aware of how much energy consumes the different web-based communication alternatives. The goal of this paper is to measure and compare the
energy consumption of three asynchronous Web-based methods in mobile devices. Our experiments consider three different Web applications models that allow a web server to push data to a browser: Polling, Long Polling and WebSockets. The obtained
results are analyzed to get more accurate understanding of the impact in energy consumption of a mobile browser for each
of these three methods. The utility of these experiments is to show developers what are the factors that influence the energy consumption when different web-based asynchronous communication
is used. With this information mobile web developers
could reduce the power consumption of web applications on
mobile devices, by selecting the most appropriate method for
asynchronous server communication.MUniversidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech
Defining discrete Morse functions on infinite surfaces
We present an algorithm which defines a discrete Morse function in Forman’s sense on an infinite surface including a study of the minimality of this function.Plan Andaluz de Investigación (Junta de Andalucía
Model Driven Evolution of an Agent-Based Home Energy Management System
Advanced smart home appliances and new models of energy tariffs imposed
by energy providers pose new challenges in the automation of home energy
management. Users need some assistant tool that helps them to make complex decisions
with different goals, depending on the current situation. Multi-agent systems
have proved to be a suitable technology to develop self-management systems,
able to take the most adequate decision under different context-dependent situations,
like the home energy management. The heterogeneity of home appliances
and also the changes in the energy policies of providers introduce the necessity of
explicitly modeling this variability. But, multi-agent systems lack of mechanisms
to effectively deal with the different degrees of variability required by these kinds
of systems. Software Product Line technologies, including variability models, has
been successfully applied to different domains to explicitly model any kind of variability.
We have defined a software product line development process that performs
a model driven generation of agents embedded in heterogeneous smart objects with
different degrees of self-management. However, once deployed, the home energy
assistant system has to be able to evolve to self-adapt its decision making or devices
to new requirements. So, in this paper we propose a model driven mechanism to
automatically manage the evolution of multi-agent systems distributed among several
devices.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech
Nominal C-Unification
Nominal unification is an extension of first-order unification that takes
into account the \alpha-equivalence relation generated by binding operators,
following the nominal approach. We propose a sound and complete procedure for
nominal unification with commutative operators, or nominal C-unification for
short, which has been formalised in Coq. The procedure transforms nominal
C-unification problems into simpler (finite families) of fixpoint problems,
whose solutions can be generated by algebraic techniques on combinatorics of
permutations.Comment: Pre-proceedings paper presented at the 27th International Symposium
on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation (LOPSTR 2017), Namur,
Belgium, 10-12 October 2017 (arXiv:1708.07854
Towards guidelines for building a business case and gathering evidence of software reference architectures in industry
Background: Software reference architectures are becoming widely adopted by organizations that need to support the design and maintenance of software applications of a shared domain. For organizations that plan to adopt this architecture-centric approach, it becomes fundamental to know the return on investment and to understand how software reference architectures are designed, maintained, and used. Unfortunately, there is little evidence-based support to help organizations with these challenges.
Methods: We have conducted action research in an industry-academia collaboration between the GESSI research group and everis, a multinational IT consulting firm based in Spain.
Results: The results from such collaboration are being packaged in order to create guidelines that could be used in similar contexts as the one of everis. The main result of this paper is the construction of empirically-grounded guidelines that support organizations to decide on the adoption of software reference architectures and to gather evidence to improve RA-related practices.
Conclusions: The created guidelines could be used by other organizations outside of our industry-academia collaboration. With this goal in mind, we describe the guidelines in detail for their use.Peer ReviewedPostprint (published version
Critical elements of proper discrete Morse functions
The aim of this paper is to study the notion of critical element of a proper discrete Morse function defined on non-compact graphs and surfaces. It is an extension to the non-compact case of the concept of critical simplex which takes into account the monotonous behaviour of a function at the ends of a complex. We show how the number of critical elements are related to the topology of the complex.Plan Nacional de Investigación (Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia
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