Intelligent desktop assistants could provide more help for users if they could learn models of the users’ workflows. However, discovering desktop workflows is difficult becau...
Jianqiang Shen, Erin Fitzhenry, Thomas G. Dietteri...
Taint analysis, a form of information-flow analysis, establishes whether values from untrusted methods and parameters may flow into security-sensitive operations. Taint analysis...
Omer Tripp, Marco Pistoia, Stephen J. Fink, Manu S...
Software evolves to fix bugs and add features. Stopping and restarting programs to apply changes is inconvenient and often costly. Dynamic software updating (DSU) addresses this ...
Suriya Subramanian, Michael W. Hicks, Kathryn S. M...
Unchecked errors are especially pernicious in operating system file management code. Transient or permanent hardware failures are inevitable, and error-management bugs at the fi...
Dynamic languages such as JavaScript are more difficult to compile than statically typed ones. Since no concrete type information is available, traditional compilers need to emit...
Andreas Gal, Brendan Eich, Mike Shaver, David Ande...