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CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Designing for discovery: opening the hood for open-source end user tinkering
According to the Free Software Movement, the user ought to have "the freedoms to make changes, and to publish improved versions" and "to study how the program works...
Gifford Cheung, Parmit Chilana, Shaun K. Kane, Bra...
ICFP
2005
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Modular verification of concurrent assembly code with dynamic thread creation and termination
Proof-carrying code (PCC) is a general framework that can, in principle, verify safety properties of arbitrary machine-language programs. Existing PCC systems and typed assembly l...
Xinyu Feng, Zhong Shao
POPL
2010
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Counterexample-Guided Focus
The automated inference of quantified invariants is considered one of the next challenges in software verification. The question of the right precision-efficiency tradeoff for the...
Andreas Podelski, Thomas Wies
EUROSYS
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Database replication policies for dynamic content applications
The database tier of dynamic content servers at large Internet sites is typically hosted on centralized and expensive hardware. Recently, research prototypes have proposed using d...
Gokul Soundararajan, Cristiana Amza, Ashvin Goel
CGO
2010
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Automated just-in-time compiler tuning
Managed runtime systems, such as a Java virtual machine (JVM), are complex pieces of software with many interacting components. The Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler is at the core of t...
Kenneth Hoste, Andy Georges, Lieven Eeckhout