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CORR
2004
Springer
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13 years 8 months ago
The First-Order Theory of Sets with Cardinality Constraints is Decidable
Data structures often use an integer variable to keep track of the number of elements they store. An invariant of such data structure is that the value of the integer variable is ...
Viktor Kuncak, Martin C. Rinard
POPL
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Proving non-termination
The search for proof and the search for counterexamples (bugs) are complementary activities that need to be pursued concurrently in order to maximize the practical success rate of...
Ashutosh Gupta, Thomas A. Henzinger, Rupak Majumda...
CAV
2009
Springer
181views Hardware» more  CAV 2009»
14 years 9 months ago
Size-Change Termination, Monotonicity Constraints and Ranking Functions
Abstract. Size-change termination involves deducing program termination based on the impossibility of infinite descent. To this end we may use m abstraction in which transitions ar...
Amir M. Ben-Amram
PODS
2006
ACM
138views Database» more  PODS 2006»
14 years 8 months ago
Efficiently ordering subgoals with access constraints
d Abstract] Guizhen Yang Artificial Intelligence Center SRI International Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA Michael Kifer Dept. of Computer Science Stony Brook University Stony Brook, NY 1...
Guizhen Yang, Michael Kifer, Vinay K. Chaudhri
POPL
2009
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Positive supercompilation for a higher order call-by-value language
Previous deforestation and supercompilation algorithms may introduce accidental termination when applied to call-by-value programs. This hides looping bugs from the programmer, an...
Peter A. Jonsson, Johan Nordlander