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SIGSOFT
2006
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
SYNERGY: a new algorithm for property checking
We consider the problem if a given program satisfies a specified safety property. Interesting programs have infinite state spaces, with inputs ranging over infinite domains, and f...
Bhargav S. Gulavani, Thomas A. Henzinger, Yamini K...
TCC
2009
Springer
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14 years 8 months ago
Weak Verifiable Random Functions
Verifiable random functions (VRFs), introduced by Micali, Rabin and Vadhan, are pseudorandom functions in which the owner of the seed produces a public-key that constitutes a commi...
Zvika Brakerski, Shafi Goldwasser, Guy N. Rothblum...
POPL
2007
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Program verification as probabilistic inference
In this paper, we propose a new algorithm for proving the validity or invalidity of a pre/postcondition pair for a program. The algorithm is motivated by the success of the algori...
Sumit Gulwani, Nebojsa Jojic
POPL
2006
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Engineering with logic: HOL specification and symbolic-evaluation testing for TCP implementations
The TCP/IP protocols and Sockets API underlie much of modern computation, but their semantics have historically been very complex and ill-defined. The real standard is the de fact...
Steve Bishop, Matthew Fairbairn, Michael Norrish, ...
FOCS
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Distance Oracles for Sparse Graphs
Abstract— Thorup and Zwick, in their seminal work, introduced the approximate distance oracle, which is a data structure that answers distance queries in a graph. For any integer...
Christian Sommer 0002, Elad Verbin, Wei Yu