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APLAS
2008
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
An Operational Semantics for JavaScript
We define a small-step operational semantics for the ECMAScript standard language corresponding to JavaScript, as a basis for analyzing security properties of web applications and ...
Sergio Maffeis, John C. Mitchell, Ankur Taly
ECOOP
2010
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
The Essence of JavaScript
We reduce JavaScript to a core calculus structured as a small-step operational semantics. We present several peculiarities of the language and show that our calculus models them. W...
Arjun Guha, Claudiu Saftoiu, Shriram Krishnamurthi
POPL
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
JavaScript instrumentation for browser security
It is well recognized that JavaScript can be exploited to launch browser-based security attacks. We propose to battle such attacks using program instrumentation. Untrusted JavaScr...
Dachuan Yu, Ajay Chander, Nayeem Islam, Igor Serik...
ESOP
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Towards a Type System for Analyzing JavaScript Programs
JavaScript is a popular language for client-side web scripting. It has a dubious reputation among programmers for two reasons. First, many JavaScript programs are written against a...
Peter Thiemann
ECOOP
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Towards Type Inference for JavaScript
Object-oriented scripting languages like JavaScript and Python are popular partly because of their dynamic features. These include the runtime modification of objects and classes ...
Christopher Anderson, Paola Giannini, Sophia Dross...