Programs usually follow many implicit programming rules, most of which are too tedious to be documented by programmers. When these rules are violated by programmers who are unawar...
— It has been clear since 1988 that self-propagating code can quickly spread across a network by exploiting homogeneous security vulnerabilities. However, the last few years have...
David Moore, Colleen Shannon, Geoffrey M. Voelker,...
Abstract. Because of its critical importance underlying all other software, lowlevel system software is among the most important targets for formal verification. Low-level systems...
Reusing software components (e.g. classes or modules) improves software quality and developer’s productivity. Unfortunately, developers may miss many reusing opportunities since...
Abstract: Alias analysis for Fortran is less complicated than for programming languages with pointers but many real Fortran programs violate the standard: a formal parameter or a c...