We propose here an extension of Rice's Theorem to first-order logic, proven by totally elementary means. If P is any property defined over the collection of all first-order t...
—Mutation testing measures the adequacy of a test suite by seeding artificial defects (mutations) into a program. If a test suite fails to detect a mutation, it may also fail to...
As software becomes increasingly complex and difficult to analyze, it is more and more common for developers to use high-level, type-safe, object-oriented (OO) programming langua...
As the gap between processor and memory continues to grow, memory performance becomes a key performance bottleneck for many applications. Compilers therefore increasingly seek to m...
Sandya S. Mannarswamy, Ramaswamy Govindarajan, Ris...
Both Sequence and Context Unification generalize the same problem: Word Unification. Besides that, Sequence Unification solves equations between unranked terms involving sequence ...