Secondary storage management in an object-oriented database management system

Ankara : The Department of Computer Engineering and Information Sciences and the Institute of Engineering and Sciences of Bilkent Univ. , 1988.Thesis (Master's) -- Bilkent University, 1988.Includes bibliographical references leaves 91-95.In this thesis, a survey on object-orientation and object-oriented database management systems has been carried out and a secondary storage management and indexing module is implemented for an object-oriented database management system prototype developed at Bilkent University. First, basic concepts, characteristics, and application areas of objectoriented approach are introduced, then, the designed prototype system is presented, the secondary storage management module is explained in detail and the functions of the other modules are summarized. Finally, the current research issues in the object-oriented database systems are introduced.Karaorman, MuratM.S

Contracting the Facebook API

In recent years, there has been an explosive growth in the popularity of online social networks such as Facebook. In a new twist, third party developers are now able to create their own web applications which plug into Facebook and work with Facebook's "social" data, enabling the entire Facebook user base of more than 400 million active users to use such applications. These client applications can contain subtle errors that can be hard to debug if they misuse the Facebook API. In this paper we present an experience report on applying Microsoft's new code contract system for the .NET framework to the Facebook API.We wrote contracts for several classes in the Facebook API wrapper which allows Microsoft .NET developers to implement Facebook applications. We evaluated the usefulness of these contracts during implementation of a new Facebook application. Our experience indicates that having code contracts provides a better and quicker software development experience.Comment: In Proceedings TAV-WEB 2010, arXiv:1009.330

A Technique for Implementing Highly Concurrent Wait-free Objects for Shared Memory Multi-processors

this paper which I believe violates non-blocking property

Introducing Concurrency to a Sequential Object-Oriented Language

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