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SIGSOFT
2004
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
System architecture: the context for scenario-based model synthesis
Constructing rigorous models for analysing the behaviour of concurrent and distributed systems is a complex task. Our aim is to facilitate model construction. Scenarios provide si...
Jeff Kramer, Jeff Magee, Robert Chatley, Sebasti&a...
SIGSOFT
2006
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Using task context to improve programmer productivity
When working on a large software system, a programmer typically spends an inordinate amount of time sifting through thousands of artifacts to find just the subset of information n...
Mik Kersten, Gail C. Murphy
CODES
2006
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
A multiprocessing approach to accelerate retargetable and portable dynamic-compiled instruction-set simulation
Traditionally, instruction-set simulators (ISS’s) are sequential programs running on individual processors. Besides the advances of simulation techniques, ISS’s have been main...
Wei Qin, Joseph D'Errico, Xinping Zhu
EUROSYS
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Pointless tainting?: evaluating the practicality of pointer tainting
This paper evaluates pointer tainting, an incarnation of Dynamic Information Flow Tracking (DIFT), which has recently become an important technique in system security. Pointer tai...
Asia Slowinska, Herbert Bos
GECCO
2007
Springer
174views Optimization» more  GECCO 2007»
14 years 3 months ago
Investigating data-flow coverage of classes using evolutionary algorithms
It is not unusual for a software development organization to expend 40 percent of total project effort on testing, which can be a very laborious and time-consuming process. Thus, ...
Konstantinos Liaskos, Marc Roper, Murray Wood