Abstract. Security engineering deals with modeling, analysis, and implementation of complex security mechanisms. The dynamic nature of such mechanisms makes it difficult to anticip...
Interval computations, stochastic arithmetic, automatic differentiation, etc.: much work is currently done to estimate and to improve the numerical accuracy of programs but few c...
Modular programming enjoys many well-known advantages: readability, maintainability, separate development and compilation. However, the composition of modular units (components) s...
Model-based diagnosis applied to computer programs has been studied for several years. Although there are still weaknesses in the used models, especially on dealing with dynamic da...
Several optimization techniques are hindered by uncertainties about the control flow in a program, which can generally not be determined by static methods at compile time. We pres...