Program instrumentation, inserted either before or during execution, is rapidly becoming a necessary component of many systems. Instrumentation is commonly used to collect informa...
We define a new fixpoint modal logic, the visibly pushdown ?-calculus (VP-?), as an extension of the modal ?-calculus. The models of this logic are execution trees of structured p...
Abstract. This paper reports on an experimental application of formal specification to inform analysis of compiled code. The analyses with are concerned attempt to recover abstract...
We study the application of a standard model checker tool, Spin, to the well-known problem of computing a may-alias relation for a C program. A precise may-alias relation can signi...
The goal of this work is to treat safety and security policies as requirements to be composed in an aspectual style with a developing application. Policies can be expressed either...