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PLDI
2003
ACM
14 years 18 days ago
Automatically proving the correctness of compiler optimizations
We describe a technique for automatically proving compiler optimizations sound, meaning that their transformations are always semantics-preserving. We first present a domainspeci...
Sorin Lerner, Todd D. Millstein, Craig Chambers
ELP
1991
13 years 11 months ago
Natural Semantics and Some of Its Meta-Theory in Elf
Operational semantics provide a simple, high-level and elegant means of specifying interpreters for programming languages. In natural semantics, a form of operational semantics, p...
Spiro Michaylov, Frank Pfenning
ICFEM
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Automating Refinement Checking in Probabilistic System Design
Abstract. Refinement plays a crucial role in "top-down" styles of verification, such as the refinement calculus, but for probabilistic systems proof of refinement is a pa...
Carlos Gonzalia, Annabelle McIver
LICS
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
The Structure of First-Order Causality
Game semantics describe the interactive behavior of proofs by interpreting formulas as games on which proofs induce strategies. Such a semantics is introduced here for capturing d...
Samuel Mimram
ECOOP
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A Semantic Analysis of C++ Templates
Templates are a powerful but poorly understood feature of the C++ language. Their syntax resembles the parameterized classes of other languages (e.g., of Java). But because C++ sup...
Jeremy G. Siek, Walid Taha