We define a new fixpoint modal logic, the visibly pushdown ?-calculus (VP-?), as an extension of the modal ?-calculus. The models of this logic are execution trees of structured p...
Abstract. This paper presents a case study on retrospective verication of the Linux Virtual File System (VFS), which is aimed at checking for violations of API usage rules and mem...
Querying its own history is an important mechanism in the computations, especially those interacting with people or other computations such as transaction processing, electronic d...
This paper shows how software engineering technologies used to define and analyze complex software systems can also be effective in detecting defects in human-intensive processes ...
Bin Chen, George S. Avrunin, Elizabeth A. Henneman...
This paper describes the methods used in Empire, a tool to detect concurrency-related bugs, namely atomic-set serializability violations in Java programs. The correctness criterion...
Nicholas Kidd, Thomas W. Reps, Julian Dolby, Manda...