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CAV
2007
Springer
110views Hardware» more  CAV 2007»
14 years 1 months ago
Hector: Software Model Checking with Cooperating Analysis Plugins
We present Hector, a software tool for combining different abstraction methods to extract sound models of heap-manipulating imperative programs with recursion. Extracted models ma...
Nathaniel Charlton, Michael Huth
SAS
2012
Springer
226views Formal Methods» more  SAS 2012»
11 years 10 months ago
A Structural Soundness Proof for Shivers's Escape Technique - A Case for Galois Connections
Abstract. Shivers’s escape technique enables one to analyse the control flow of higher-order program fragments. It is widely used, but its soundness has never been proven. In th...
Jan Midtgaard, Michael D. Adams 0001, Matthew Migh...
FTCS
1998
144views more  FTCS 1998»
13 years 9 months ago
Improving Software Robustness with Dependability Cases
Programs fail mainly for two reasons: logic errors in the code, and exception failures. Exception failures can account for up to 2/3 of system crashes [6], hence are worthy of ser...
Roy A. Maxion, Robert T. Olszewski
SIGSOFT
2001
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Combining UML and formal notations for modelling real-time systems
This article explores a dual approach to real-time software development. Models are written in UML, as this is expected to be relatively easy and economic. Then models are automat...
Luigi Lavazza, Gabriele Quaroni, Matteo Venturelli
WCET
2010
13 years 5 months ago
Realism in Statistical Analysis of Worst Case Execution Times
This paper considers the use of Extreme Value Theory (EVT) to model worst-case execution times. In particular it considers the sacrifice that statistical methods make in the reali...
David Griffin, Alan Burns