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SIGSOFT
2007
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Mining API patterns as partial orders from source code: from usage scenarios to specifications
A software system interacts with third-party libraries through various APIs. Using these library APIs often needs to follow certain usage patterns. Furthermore, ordering rules (sp...
Mithun Acharya, Tao Xie, Jian Pei, Jun Xu
SIGSOFT
2001
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Detecting implied scenarios in message sequence chart specifications
Scenario-based specifications such as Message Sequence Charts (MSCs) are becoming increasingly popular as part of a requirements specification. Scenarios describe how system compo...
Jeff Kramer, Jeff Magee, Sebastián Uchitel
POPL
2006
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
A fixpoint calculus for local and global program flows
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...
Rajeev Alur, Swarat Chaudhuri, P. Madhusudan
STOC
2006
ACM
138views Algorithms» more  STOC 2006»
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The PCP theorem by gap amplification
The PCP theorem [3, 2] says that every language in NP has a witness format that can be checked probabilistically by reading only a constant number of bits from the proof. The cele...
Irit Dinur
PODS
2008
ACM
178views Database» more  PODS 2008»
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The chase revisited
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...
Alin Deutsch, Alan Nash, Jeffrey B. Remmel