Abstract. Many important software systems are written in the C programming language. Unfortunately, the C language does not provide strong safety guarantees, and many common progra...
Michael Burrows, Stephen N. Freund, Janet L. Wiene...
Concurrent programming errors arise when threads share data incorrectly. Programmers often avoid these errors by using synchronization to enforce a simple ownership policy: data i...
Jean-Phillipe Martin, Michael Hicks, Manuel Costa,...
Abstract. Blast is an automatic verification tool for checking temporal safety properties of C programs. Given a C program and a temporal safety property, Blast statically proves ...
Dirk Beyer, Thomas A. Henzinger, Ranjit Jhala, Rup...
Model checking is emerging as a popular technology for reasoning about behavioral properties of a wide variety of software artifacts including: requirements models, architectural ...
Software model checkers work directly on single-process programs, but not on multiple processes. Conversion of processes into threads, combined with a network model, allows for mo...
Cyrille Artho, Christian Sommer 0002, Shinichi Hon...