In this paper we propose a communication-centric approach to specifying and checking how multithreaded programs use shared memory to perform inter-thread communication. Our approa...
Benjamin P. Wood, Adrian Sampson, Luis Ceze, Dan G...
It is widely believed that program analysis can be more closely targeted to the needs of programmers if the program is accompanied by further redundant documentation. This may inc...
The ideal software contract fully specifies the behavior of an operation. Often, in particular in the context of scripting languages, a full specification may be cumbersome to s...
Phillip Heidegger, Annette Bieniusa, Peter Thieman...
End-to-end latency of messages is an important design parameter that needs to be within specified bounds for the correct functioning of distributed real-time control systems. In t...
Swarup Mohalik, A. C. Rajeev, Manoj G. Dixit, S. R...
We study the problem of learning to accurately rank a set of objects by combining a given collection of ranking or preference functions. This problem of combining preferences aris...
Yoav Freund, Raj D. Iyer, Robert E. Schapire, Yora...