—A software birthmark is an inherent characteristic of a program that can be used to identify that program. By comparing the birthmarks of two programs, it is possible to infer i...
Hyun-il Lim, Heewan Park, Seokwoo Choi, Taisook Ha...
To avoid receiving incorrect arguments, a method specifies the expected type of each formal parameter. However, some parameter types are too general and have subtypes that the me...
Remotely-launched software exploits are a common way for attackers to intrude into vulnerable computer systems. As detection techniques improve, remote exploitation techniques are...
Qinghua Zhang, Douglas S. Reeves, Peng Ning, S. Pu...
Static analysis tools report software defects that may or may not be detected by other verification methods. Two challenges complicating the adoption of these tools are spurious f...
Joseph R. Ruthruff, John Penix, J. David Morgentha...
—In the past, researchers have developed specialized programs to aid programmers in detecting concurrent programming errors such as deadlocks, livelocks, starvation, and data rac...