Model checking is a suitable formal technique to analyze parallel programs' execution in an industrial context because automated tools can be designed and operated with very ...
We present a non-operational approach to specifying and analyzing shared memory consistency models. The method uses higher order logic to capture a complete set of ordering constra...
Yue Yang, Ganesh Gopalakrishnan, Gary Lindstrom, K...
One common technique for preventing data races in multi-threaded programs is to ensure that all accesses to shared locations are consistently protected by a lock. We present a too...
Polyvios Pratikakis, Jeffrey S. Foster, Michael W....
Security concerns are becoming increasingly critical in networked systems. Firewalls provide important defense for network security. However, misconfigurations in firewalls are ...
Lihua Yuan, Jianning Mai, Zhendong Su, Hao Chen, C...
In recent years we have seen great progress made in the area of automatic source-level static analysis tools. However, most of today's program verification tools are limited ...
Byron Cook, Alexey Gotsman, Andreas Podelski, Andr...