We enforce information flow policies in programs that run at multiple locations, with diverse levels of security. We build a compiler from a small imperative language with locali...
Abstract. Multithreaded programs are prone to errors caused by unintended interference between concurrent threads. This paper focuses on verifying that deterministically-parallel c...
Caitlin Sadowski, Stephen N. Freund, Cormac Flanag...
We introduce the class of Rigid Tree Automata (RTA), an extension of standard bottom-up automata on ranked trees with distinguished states called rigid. Rigid states define a rest...
Reference counting is a widely-used resource management idiom which maintains a count of references to each resource by incrementing the count upon an acquisition, and decrementing...
Michael Emmi, Ranjit Jhala, Eddie Kohler, Rupak Ma...
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...