Reference counting is a widely-used resource management idiom which maintains a count of references to each resource by incrementing the count upon an acquisition, and decrementing...
Michael Emmi, Ranjit Jhala, Eddie Kohler, Rupak Ma...
Separation logic is a Hoare-style logic for reasoning about programs with heap-allocated mutable data structures. As a step toward extending separation logic to high-level language...
Jan Schwinghammer, Lars Birkedal, Bernhard Reus, H...
Abstract. We introduce a uniform framework for reasoning about infinitestate systems with unbounded control structures and unbounded data domains. Our framework is based on constr...
Ahmed Bouajjani, Peter Habermehl, Yan Jurski, Miha...
Abstract. We examine the problem of detecting nested temporal predicates given the execution trace of a distributed program. We present a technique that allows efficient detection ...
Ownership types characterize the topology of objects in the heap, through a characterization of the context to which an object belongs. They have been used to support reasoning, me...