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POPL
2016
ACM
10 years 20 days ago
Combining static analysis with probabilistic models to enable market-scale Android inter-component analysis
Static analysis has been successfully used in many areas, from verifying mission-critical software to malware detection. Unfortunately, static analysis often produces false positi...
Damien Octeau, Somesh Jha, Matthew Dering, Patrick...
POPL
2016
ACM
10 years 20 days ago
Taming release-acquire consistency
We introduce a strengthening of the release-acquire fragment of the C11 memory model that (i) forbids dubious behaviors that are not observed in any implementation; (ii) supports ...
Ori Lahav, Nick Giannarakis, Viktor Vafeiadis
POPL
2016
ACM
10 years 20 days ago
Modelling the ARMv8 architecture, operationally: concurrency and ISA
In this paper we develop semantics for key aspects of the ARMv8 multiprocessor architecture: the concurrency model and much of the 64-bit application-level instruction set (ISA). ...
Shaked Flur, Kathryn E. Gray, Christopher Pulte, S...
POPL
2016
ACM
10 years 20 days ago
Newtonian program analysis via tensor product
Recently, Esparza et al. generalized Newton’s method—a numerical-analysis algorithm for finding roots of real-valued functions—to a method for finding fixed-points of sys...
Thomas W. Reps, Emma Turetsky, Prathmesh Prabhu
POPL
2016
ACM
10 years 20 days ago
Learning invariants using decision trees and implication counterexamples
Inductive invariants can be robustly synthesized using a learning model where the teacher is a program verifier who instructs the learner through concrete program configurations...
Pranav Garg 0001, Daniel Neider, P. Madhusudan, Da...