Software fails and fixing it is expensive. Research in failure prediction has been highly successful at modeling software failures. Few models, however, consider the key cause of ...
Andrew Meneely, Laurie Williams, Will Snipes, Jaso...
This paper describes a compositional shape analysis, where each procedure is analyzed independently of its callers. The analysis uses an abstract domain based on a restricted frag...
Cristiano Calcagno, Dino Distefano, Peter W. O'Hea...
In some applications such as filling in a customer information form on the web, some missing values may not be explicitly represented as such, but instead appear as potentially va...
We revisit the classical chase procedure, studying its properties as well as its applicability to standard database problems. We settle (in the negative) the open problem of decid...
It is rare to give a semantic definition of a full-scale programming language, despite the many potential benefits. Partly this is because the available metalanguages for expressi...
Peter Sewell, Francesco Zappa Nardelli, Scott Owen...