Buffer overrun vulnerabilities cause significant security problems, and have proven to be difficult to prevent. In this paper we present a novel approach to tackling the problem...
David Llewellyn-Jones, Madjid Merabti, Qi Shi, Bob...
This paper presents an automated and compositional procedure to solve the substitutability problem in the context of evolving software systems. Our solution contributes two techniq...
Natasha Sharygina, Sagar Chaki, Edmund M. Clarke, ...
for reasoning about abstract models of protocols. The work on informal methods attempts to discern common patterns in the extensive record of flawed protocols, and to formulate po...
Abstract. Architectural description languages are a useful tool for modmplex software systems at a high level of abstraction and, if based on formal methods, for enabling the early...
Software correctness has bedeviled the field of computer science since its inception. Software complexity has increased far more quickly than our ability to control it, reaching ...
David F. Bacon, Yiling Chen, David C. Parkes, Malv...