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...
Understanding security bugs in a vulnerable program is a non-trivial task, even if the target program is known to be vulnerable. Though there exist debugging tools that facilitate...
Chongkyung Kil, Emre Can Sezer, Peng Ning, Xiaolan...
Testingthe performance scalabilityof parallelprograms can be a time consuming task, involving many performance runs for different computer configurations, processor numbers, and p...
Allen D. Malony, Vassilis Mertsiotakis, Andreas Qu...
The emergence of multicore processors has heightened the need for effective parallel programming practices. In addition to writing new parallel programs, the next generation of pr...
William Thies, Vikram Chandrasekhar, Saman P. Amar...
The support for precise exceptions in Java, combined with frequent checks for runtime exceptions, leads to severe limitations on the compiler’s ability to perform program optimiz...