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ISSTA
2009
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
A comparative study of programmer-written and automatically inferred contracts
Where do contracts — specification elements embedded in executable code — come from? To produce them, should we rely on the programmers, on automatic tools, or some combinati...
Nadia Polikarpova, Ilinca Ciupa, Bertrand Meyer
AC
1998
Springer
14 years 9 months ago
Cellular Automata Models of Self-Replicating Systems
Abstract: Since von Neumann's seminal work around 1950, computer scientists and others have studied the algorithms needed to support self-replicating systems. Much of this wor...
James A. Reggia, Hui-Hsien Chou, Jason D. Lohn
MICRO
2009
IEEE
132views Hardware» more  MICRO 2009»
15 years 4 months ago
Finding concurrency bugs with context-aware communication graphs
Incorrect thread synchronization often leads to concurrency bugs that manifest nondeterministically and are difficult to detect and fix. Past work on detecting concurrency bugs ...
Brandon Lucia, Luis Ceze
CASES
2006
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Adapting compilation techniques to enhance the packing of instructions into registers
The architectural design of embedded systems is becoming increasingly idiosyncratic to meet varying constraints regarding energy consumption, code size, and execution time. Tradit...
Stephen Hines, David B. Whalley, Gary S. Tyson
ISLPED
2003
ACM
197views Hardware» more  ISLPED 2003»
15 years 2 months ago
Analyzing the energy consumption of security protocols
Security is critical to a wide range of wireless data applications and services. While several security mechanisms and protocols have been developed in the context of the wired In...
Nachiketh R. Potlapally, Srivaths Ravi, Anand Ragh...