Compilation to bytecode paired with interpretation is often used as a technique to easily build prototypes for new programming languages. Some languages, including Java, push this further and use the bytecode layer to isolate programs from the underlying platform. Current…

This dissertation surveys the historical and intellectual development of the Ṭariqa Qadiriyya Naqshbandiyya (TQN), the amalgamated Sufi order founded in Indonesia by Shaykh Aḥmad Khaṭib Sambas (d.1875). After a brief recapitulation of the progress of Sufi orders in and beyond…

The Multidisciplinary Design Optimization (MDO) can be defined as a methodology for the design of complex engineering systems where collaboration and abilities to mutually interacting between different disciplines are fundamental. In this thesis, Virtual Aircraft Design and Optimization fRamework (VADOR),…

Networks and their services have been growing rapidly in recent years, so has the complexity of configuring the network operations. In order to manage the rapidly expanding networks, new management protocols are thus needed to change the network management from…

Despite the popularity of Java, problems may arise from potential data-race conditionsduring execution of a Java program. Data-races are considered errors in concurrent pro-gramming languages and greatly complicate both programming and runtime optimizationefforts. A race-free version of Java is therefore…

This thesis presents a novel idea for object allocation, cache line reservation (CLR), whose goal is to reduce data cache misses. Certain objects are allocated from "reserved" cache lines, so that they do not evict other objects that will be…

To achieve the best performance, most computer languages are compiled, either ahead of time and statically, or dynamically during runtime by means of a Just-in-Time (JIT) compiler. Optimizing compilers are complex, however, and for many languages such as Ruby, Python,…

Speculative multithreading (SpMT), also known as thread level speculation (TLS), is a dynamic parallelization technique that relies on out-of-order execution, dependence buffering, and misspeculation rollback to achieve speedup of sequential programs on multiprocessors. A large number of hardware studies have…

My dissertation explores the eclectic singing careers of sisters Eva and Juliette Gauthier. Born in Ottawa, Eva and Juliettte were aided in their musical aspirations by the patronage of Prime Minister Wilfred Laurier and his wife Lady Zoë. They both…

Numerous techniques mine change data captured in software archives to assist software engineering efforts. These change-based approaches typically analyze change sets -- groups of co-committed changes -- under the assumption that the development work represented by change sets is both…