In this paper I argue that pervasive tracking and data-mining are leading to shifts in governmentality that can be characterised as algorithmic states of exception. I also argue that the apparatus that performs this change owes as much to everyday business models as it does to mass surveillance. I look at technical changes at the level of data structures, such as the move to NoSQL databases, an...

The exception-handling framework described in this paper creates an opening to compare different exception-handling approaches in a structured way. This comparison is made, linking taxonomies of different research-groups together. Concurrently the framework specifies a general data-structure to store knowledge about exception-handling, which makes it easier to adapt the proposed taxonomy in the...

Current JDK Java compiler relies too much on programmer's speciication for checking against uncaught exceptions of the input program. It is not elaborate enough to remove programmer's unnecessary handlers (when programmer's speciications are too many) nor suggest to programmers for specialized handlings (when programmer's speciica-tions are too general). We propose a static analysis of Java pro...

We present a type-and-effect system that derives an exceptionannotated type signature for a given term of a simply typed nonstrict functional language with general recursion and a list data type. This signature declares the set of exceptional values that may be present among the values of the term, or produced by terms of function type. Higher-ranked effect polymorphism and effect operators rem...

A field experiment was performed to investigate the effect of several variables on helping behavior, using the express trains of the New York 8th Avenue Independent Subway as a laboratory on wheels. Four teams of students, each one made up of a victim, model, and two observers, staged standard collapses in which type of victim (drunk or ill), race of victim (black or white) and presence or abse...

Ambiguity is a notorious problem for Natural Language Processing. According to results obtained by Schmitz and Quantz I see disambiguation as a process in which contextual defaults are used to derive the most preferred interpretation of an expression. I show how contextual information comprising grammatical as well as conceptual knowledge can be modeled in a homogeneous manner using Terminologi...

This paper outlines a design for an exception handling mechanism for C++. It presents the reasoning behind the major design decisions and considers their implications for implementation alternatives. The mechanism is flexible, comparatively safe and easy to use, works in a mixed language execution environment, and can be implemented to run efficiently. Two implementation strategies are describe...

It is no longer possible to consider exception handling as a secondary issue in language design, or even worse, a mechanism added after the fact via a library approach. Exception handling is a primary feature in language design and must be integrated with other major features, including advanced control flow, objects, coroutines, concurrency, realtime and polymorphism. Integration is crucial as...