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FMAM
2010
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Are Formal Methods Ready for Agility? A Reality Check
Abstract: The integration of agile software development techniques with formal methods has attracted attention as a research topic. But what exactly is to be gained from attempting...
Peter Gorm Larsen, John S. Fitzgerald, Sune Wolff
FMAM
2010
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Agile Formality: A Mole of Software Engineering Practices
: Members of the agile programming and formal methods communities do not always see eye-to-eye. These two communities often do not talk to or learn from each other. Only recently, ...
Vieri del Bianco, Dragan Stosic, Joseph R. Kiniry
UTP
2010
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Unifying Theories in Isabelle/HOL
In this paper, we present various extensions of Isabelle/HOL by theories that are essential for several formal methods. First, we explain how we have developed an Isabelle/HOL theo...
Abderrahmane Feliachi, Marie-Claude Gaudel, Burkha...
SAS
2010
Springer
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Alternation for Termination
Proving termination of sequential programs is an important problem, both for establishing the total correctness of systems and as a component of proving more general termination an...
William R. Harris, Akash Lal, Aditya V. Nori, Srir...
SAS
2010
Springer
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Concurrent Separation Logic for Pipelined Parallelization
Recent innovations in automatic parallelizing compilers are showing impressive speedups on multicore processors using shared memory with asynchronous channels. We have formulated a...
Christian J. Bell, Andrew W. Appel, David Walker
SAS
2010
Springer
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Strictness Meets Data Flow
Abstract. Properties of programs can be formulated using various techdataflow analysis, abstract interpretation and type-like inference systems. This paper reconstructs strictness...
Tom Schrijvers, Alan Mycroft
SAS
2010
Springer
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Modelling Metamorphism by Abstract Interpretation
Mila Dalla Preda, Roberto Giacobazzi, Saumya K. De...
SAS
2010
Springer
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Interprocedural Analysis with Lazy Propagation
We propose lazy propagation as a technique for flow- and context-sensitive interprocedural analysis of programs with objects and first-class functions where transfer functions ma...
Simon Holm Jensen, Anders Møller, Peter Thi...
SAS
2010
Springer
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Boxes: A Symbolic Abstract Domain of Boxes
Symbolic Abstract Domain of Boxes Arie Gurfinkel and Sagar Chaki Carnegie Mellon University Abstract. Numeric abstract domains are widely used in program analyses. The simplest nu...
Arie Gurfinkel, Sagar Chaki