We present a general theory of Gifford-style type and effect annotations, where effect annotations are sets of effects. Generality is achieved by recourse to the theory of algebra...
Web applications are the Achilles heel of our current ICT infrastructure. NIST's national vulnerability database clearly shows that the percentage of vulnerabilities located ...
Lieven Desmet, Frank Piessens, Wouter Joosen, Pier...
Proof-carrying code (PCC) is a general framework that can, in principle, verify safety properties of arbitrary machine-language programs. Existing PCC systems and typed assembly l...
We study a novel problem of mining significant recurrent rules from a sequence database. Recurrent rules have the form "whenever a series of precedent events occurs, eventuall...
Many analysis techniques have been proposed to determine when a potentially null value may be dereferenced. But we have observed in practice that not every potential null derefere...