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CGO
2009
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Alchemist: A Transparent Dependence Distance Profiling Infrastructure
Effectively migrating sequential applications to take advantage of parallelism available on multicore platforms is a well-recognized challenge. This paper addresses important aspec...
Xiangyu Zhang, Armand Navabi, Suresh Jagannathan
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COMPSAC
2007
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Conformance Checking of Access Control Policies Specified in XACML
Access control is one of the most fundamental and widely used security mechanisms. Access control mechanisms control which principals such as users or processes have access to whi...
Vincent C. Hu, Evan Martin, JeeHyun Hwang, Tao Xie
FASE
2009
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Mining API Error-Handling Specifications from Source Code
Abstract. API error-handling specifications are often not documented, necessitating automated specification mining. Automated mining of error-handling specifications is challenging...
Mithun Acharya, Tao Xie
FSEN
2009
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Executable Interface Specifications for Testing Asynchronous Creol Components
We propose and explore a formal approach for black-box testing asynchronously communicating components in open environments. Asynchronicity poses a challenge for validating and tes...
Immo Grabe, Marcel Kyas, Martin Steffen, Arild B. ...
ICFEM
2007
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Automating Refinement Checking in Probabilistic System Design
Abstract. Refinement plays a crucial role in "top-down" styles of verification, such as the refinement calculus, but for probabilistic systems proof of refinement is a pa...
Carlos Gonzalia, Annabelle McIver