Modern architectures, such as the Intel Itanium, support speculation, a hardware mechanism that allows the early execution of expensive operations—possibly even before it is kno...
Noah Snavely, Saumya K. Debray, Gregory R. Andrews
Legacy systems are often business critical and are associated with high maintenance costs. In this paper, we present an overview of a method, Renaissance, which aims to manage the...
This paper describes LCLint, an efficient and flexible tool that accepts as input programs (written in ANSI C) and various levels of formal specification. Using this information, ...
David Evans, John V. Guttag, James J. Horning, Yan...
Design pattern detection is a reverse engineering methodology that helps software engineers to analyze and understand legacy software by recovering its design and thereby aiding i...
Markus von Detten, Matthias Meyer, Dietrich Travki...
Tools that analyze and enhance large-scale software systems using symbolic reasoning are computationally expensive, and yet processors are cheap. We believe that enabling tools wi...