Onward! 2015
Sun 25 - Fri 30 October 2015 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
co-located with SPLASH 2015
Thu 29 Oct 2015 13:30 - 13:52 at Grand Station 3-5 - Session the Second Chair(s): Karim Ali

Today, software engineering practices focus on finding the single right data representation (i.e., data structure) for a program. The right data representation, however, might not exist: relying on a single representation of the data for the lifetime of the program can be suboptimal in terms of performance. We explore the idea of developing data structures for which changing the data representation is an intrinsic property. To this end we introduce Just-in-Time Data Structures, which enable representation changes at runtime, based on declarative input from a performance expert programmer. Just-in-Time Data Structures are an attempt to shift the focus from finding the ``right'' data structure to finding the right sequence of data representations. We present JitDS-Java, an extension to the Java language, to develop Just-in-Time Data Structures. Further, we show two example programs that benefit from changing the representation at runtime.

Thu 29 Oct

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13:30 - 15:00
Session the SecondOnward! Papers at Grand Station 3-5
Chair(s): Karim Ali TU Darmstadt
13:30
22m
Talk
Just-in-Time Data Structures
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Mattias De Wael Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Stefan Marr INRIA, France, Joeri De Koster Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Jennifer B. Sartor Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Wolfgang De Meuter Vrije Universiteit Brussel
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13:52
22m
Talk
Separation of Powers in the Cloud: Where Applications and Users Become Peers
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David H. Lorenz Open University and Technion IIT, Boaz Rosenan University of Haifa
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14:15
22m
Talk
Slimming Languages by Reducing Sugar: A Case for Semantics-Altering Transformations
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Junsong Li Brown University, Justin Pombrio , Joe Gibbs Politz Swarthmore College, Shriram Krishnamurthi Brown University
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14:37
22m
Talk
Musiplectics: Computational Assessment of the Complexity of Music Scores
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Ethan Holder Virginia Tech, Eli Tilevich Virginia Tech, Amy Gillick Virginia Tech