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PLDI
2010
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Pacer: Proportional Detection of Data Races
Data races indicate serious concurrency bugs such as order, atomicity, and sequential consistency violations. Races are difficult to find and fix, often manifesting only in deploy...
Michael D. Bond, Katherine E. Coons, Kathryn S. Mc...
CACM
2008
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15 years 4 months ago
Exterminator: Automatically correcting memory errors with high probability
Programs written in C and C++ are susceptible to memory errors, including buffer overflows and dangling pointers. These errors, which can lead to crashes, erroneous execution, and...
Gene Novark, Emery D. Berger, Benjamin G. Zorn
DASFAA
2008
IEEE
137views Database» more  DASFAA 2008»
15 years 5 months ago
Efficient Mining of Recurrent Rules from a Sequence Database
We study a novel problem of mining significant recurrent rules from a sequence database. Recurrent rules have the form "whenever a series of precedent events occurs, eventuall...
David Lo, Siau-Cheng Khoo, Chao Liu 0001
CAV
2005
Springer
150views Hardware» more  CAV 2005»
15 years 9 months ago
Reasoning About Threads Communicating via Locks
Abstract. We propose a new technique for the static analysis of concurrent programs comprised of multiple threads. In general, the problem is known to be undecidable even for progr...
Vineet Kahlon, Franjo Ivancic, Aarti Gupta
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
150views Education» more  SIGCSE 2009»
16 years 4 months ago
Dereferee: exploring pointer mismanagement in student code
Dynamic memory management and the use of pointers are critical topics in teaching the C++ language. They are also some of the most difficult for students to grasp properly. The re...
Anthony Allevato, Manuel A. Pérez-Qui&ntild...