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Alan Donovan

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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
0since 2021 · last 2004
—ORCID · none

Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several

Software engineering, systems software and programming languages · 1 · 1 first-author

Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.

Software engineering, system software, and programming languages
1 paper
Programming languages and type systems · 67% Software maintenance and evolution · 33%

Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Programming languages and type systems › type systems › polymorphism
generics		 0.012004
Converting java programs to use generic libraries · OOPSLA 2004
Software maintenance and evolution › software reengineering › software modernization › software migration
legacy system migration		 0.012004
Converting java programs to use generic libraries · OOPSLA 2004
Programming languages and type systems › type systems › polymorphism
parametric polymorphism		 0.012004
Converting java programs to use generic libraries · OOPSLA 2004

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

type inference · 0.0
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2004 Converting java programs to use generic libraries
abstract
Java 1.5 will include a type system (called JSR-14) that supports parametric polymorphism, or generic classes. This will bring many benefits to Java programmers, not least because current Java practice makes heavy use of logically-generic classes, including container classes.
Alan Donovan, Adam Kiezun, Matthew S. Tschantz, Michael D. Ernst
 OOPSLA1