Thread pools are often used as a pattern to increase the throughput and responsiveness of software systems. Implementations of thread pools may differ considerably from each other...
Frank S. de Boer, Immo Grabe, Mohammad Mahdi Jagho...
The idea of a combined reference model- and view-based specification approach has been proposed recently in the software engineering community. In this paper we present a specifica...
Gregor Engels, Reiko Heckel, Gabriele Taentzer, Ha...
We give examples of situations where formal specifications of procedures in the standard pre/postcondition style become lengthy, cumbersome and difficult to change, a problem whic...
Alexander Borgida, John Mylopoulos, Raymond Reiter
This paper describes an experiment to use the Spin model checking system to support automated verification of time partitioning in the Honeywell DEOS real-time scheduling kernel. ...
John Penix, Willem Visser, Eric Engstrom, Aaron La...
We present a unified approach to type checking and property checking for low-level code. Type checking for low-level code is challenging because type safety often depends on compl...
Jeremy Condit, Brian Hackett, Shuvendu K. Lahiri, ...