We present an overview of the program transformation techniques which have been proposed over the past twenty-five years in the context of logic programming. We consider the appro...
Alberto Pettorossi, Maurizio Proietti, Valerio Sen...
Abstract—Several successful approaches to software verificabased on the construction and analysis of an abstract reachability tree (ART). The ART represents unwindings of the co...
Dirk Beyer, Alessandro Cimatti, Alberto Griggio, M...
We present a framework for the certification of compilation and of compiled programs. Our approach uses a symbolic transfer functions-based representation of programs, so as to ch...
Combining theorem proving and model checking o ers the tantalizing possibility of e ciently reasoning about large circuits at high levels of abstraction. We have constructed a syst...
Mark Aagaard, Robert B. Jones, Carl-Johan H. Seger
Abstract. We introduce software integrity checking expressions (SoftICEs), which are program predicates that can be used in software tamper detection. We present two candidates, pr...
Mariusz H. Jakubowski, Prasad Naldurg, Vijay Patan...