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WCRE
1999
IEEE
14 years 26 days ago
A Formal Approach for Reverse Engineering: A Case Study
As a program evolves, it becomes increasingly difficult to understand and reason about changes in the source code. Eventually, if enough changes are made, reverse engineering and ...
Gerald C. Gannod, Betty H. C. Cheng
BIRTHDAY
2003
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Colimits for Concurrent Collectors
Abstract. This case study applies techniques of formal program development by specification refinement and composition to the problem of concurrent garbage collection. The speci...
Dusko Pavlovic, Peter Pepper, Douglas R. Smith
ENTCS
2002
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13 years 8 months ago
Contract-based mutation testing in the refinement calculus
This article discusses mutation testing strategies in the context of refinement. Here, a novel generalization of mutation testing techniques is presented to be applied to contract...
Bernhard K. Aichernig
ICCD
2005
IEEE
124views Hardware» more  ICCD 2005»
14 years 2 months ago
Model Checking C Programs Using F-SOFT
— With the success of formal verification techniques like equivalence checking and model checking for hardware designs, there has been growing interest in applying such techniqu...
Franjo Ivancic, Ilya Shlyakhter, Aarti Gupta, Mala...
JAIR
2010
77views more  JAIR 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
Resource-Driven Mission-Phasing Techniques for Constrained Agents in Stochastic Environments
Because an agent’s resources dictate what actions it can possibly take, it should plan which resources it holds over time carefully, considering its inherent limitations (such a...
E. H. Durfee Wu, Edmund H. Durfee