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SPAA
2009
ACM
16 years 6 days ago
The weakest failure detector for wait-free dining under eventual weak exclusion
Dining philosophers is a classic scheduling problem for local mutual exclusion on arbitrary conflict graphs. We establish necessary conditions to solve wait-free dining under even...
Srikanth Sastry, Scott M. Pike, Jennifer L. Welch
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PLDI
2009
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Snugglebug: a powerful approach to weakest preconditions
Symbolic analysis shows promise as a foundation for bug-finding, specification inference, verification, and test generation. This paper addresses demand-driven symbolic analysi...
Satish Chandra, Stephen J. Fink, Manu Sridharan
IEEESP
2010
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14 years 10 months ago
The Iterated Weakest Link
Abstract. We devise a model for security investment that reflects dynamic interaction between a defender, who faces uncertainty, and an attacker, who repeatedly targets the weakes...
Rainer Böhme, Tyler Moore
CSFW
2007
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
Creating Vulnerability Signatures Using Weakest Preconditions
Signature-based tools such as network intrusion detection systems are widely used to protect critical systems. Automatic signature generation techniques are needed to enable these...
David Brumley, Hao Wang, Somesh Jha, Dawn Xiaodong...
PLDI
2009
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
A weakest precondition approach to active attacks analysis
Information flow controls can be used to protect both data confidentiality and data integrity. The certification of the security degree of a program that runs in untrusted envi...
Musard Balliu, Isabella Mastroeni