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OOPSLA
2010
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Composable specifications for structured shared-memory communication
In this paper we propose a communication-centric approach to specifying and checking how multithreaded programs use shared memory to perform inter-thread communication. Our approa...
Benjamin P. Wood, Adrian Sampson, Luis Ceze, Dan G...
SIGSOFT
2010
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Differential static analysis: opportunities, applications, and challenges
It is widely believed that program analysis can be more closely targeted to the needs of programmers if the program is accompanied by further redundant documentation. This may inc...
Shuvendu K. Lahiri, Kapil Vaswani, C. A. R. Hoare
WSDM
2012
ACM
207views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2012»
12 years 6 months ago
Domain bias in web search
This paper uncovers a new phenomenon in web search that we call domain bias — a user’s propensity to believe that a page is more relevant just because it comes from a particul...
Samuel Ieong, Nina Mishra, Eldar Sadikov, Li Zhang
ISSTA
2012
ACM
12 years 1 months ago
A quantitative study of accuracy in system call-based malware detection
Over the last decade, there has been a significant increase in the number and sophistication of malware-related attacks and infections. Many detection techniques have been propos...
Davide Canali, Andrea Lanzi, Davide Balzarotti, Ch...
SIGIR
2012
ACM
12 years 1 months ago
Time-based calibration of effectiveness measures
Many current effectiveness measures incorporate simplifying assumptions about user behavior. These assumptions prevent the measures from reflecting aspects of the search process...
Mark D. Smucker, Charles L. A. Clarke