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SIGSOFT
2003
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Protecting C programs from attacks via invalid pointer dereferences
Writes via unchecked pointer dereferences rank high among vulnerabilities most often exploited by malicious code. The most common attacks use an unchecked string copy to cause a b...
Suan Hsi Yong, Susan Horwitz
SIGSOFT
2003
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
ARCHER: using symbolic, path-sensitive analysis to detect memory access errors
Memory corruption errors lead to non-deterministic, elusive crashes. This paper describes ARCHER (ARray CHeckER) a static, effective memory access checker. ARCHER uses path-sensit...
Yichen Xie, Andy Chou, Dawson R. Engler
SIGSOFT
2003
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Behaviour model elaboration using partial labelled transition systems
State machine based formalisms such as labelled transition systems (LTS) are generally assumed to be complete descriptions m behaviour at some level of abstraction: if a labelled ...
Sebastián Uchitel, Jeff Kramer, Jeff Magee
SIGSOFT
2003
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Runtime safety analysis of multithreaded programs
Foundational and scalable techniques for runtime safety analysis of multithreaded programs are explored in this paper. A technique based on vector clocks to extract the causal dep...
Koushik Sen, Grigore Rosu, Gul Agha
SIGSOFT
2003
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Bogor: an extensible and highly-modular software model checking framework
Model checking is emerging as a popular technology for reasoning about behavioral properties of a wide variety of software artifacts including: requirements models, architectural ...
Robby, Matthew B. Dwyer, John Hatcliff
SIGSOFT
2003
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Making sense of runtime architecture for mobile phone software
We present a metamodel for runtime architecture and demonstrate with experimental results how this metamodel can be used to recover, analyze and improve runtime architecture of mo...
Alexander Ran, Raimondas Lencevicius
SIGSOFT
2003
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Ontology support for web service processes
Web Services are software services that can be advertised by providers and deployed by customers using Web technologies. This concept is currently carried further to address Web s...
Claus Pahl, Michael Casey