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POPL
2012
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
On the power of coercion abstraction
Julien Cretin, Didier Rémy
POPL
2012
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
A type system for borrowing permissions
In object-oriented programming, unique permissions to object references are useful for checking correctness properties such as consistency of typestate and noninterference of conc...
Karl Naden, Robert Bocchino, Jonathan Aldrich, Kev...
POPL
2012
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
A mechanized semantics for C++ object construction and destruction, with applications to resource management
We present a formal operational semantics and its Coq mechanization for the C++ object model, featuring object construction and destruction, shared and repeated multiple inheritan...
Tahina Ramananandro, Gabriel Dos Reis, Xavier Lero...
POPL
2012
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
Access permission contracts for scripting languages
The ideal software contract fully specifies the behavior of an operation. Often, in particular in the context of scripting languages, a full specification may be cumbersome to s...
Phillip Heidegger, Annette Bieniusa, Peter Thieman...
POPL
2012
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
A type theory for probability density functions
There has been great interest in creating probabilistic programming languages to simplify the coding of statistical tasks; however, there still does not exist a formal language th...
Sooraj Bhat, Ashish Agarwal, Richard W. Vuduc, Ale...
POPL
2012
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
An executable formal semantics of C with applications
This paper describes an executable formal semantics of C. Being executable, the semantics has been thoroughly tested against the GCC torture test suite and successfully passes 99....
Chucky Ellison, Grigore Rosu
POPL
2012
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
Multiple facets for dynamic information flow
JavaScript has become a central technology of the web, but it is also the source of many security problems, including cross-site scripting attacks and malicious advertising code. ...
Thomas H. Austin, Cormac Flanagan
POPL
2012
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
A language for automatically enforcing privacy policies
It is becoming increasingly important for applications to protect sensitive data. With current techniques, the programmer bears the burden of ensuring that the application’s beh...
Jean Yang, Kuat Yessenov, Armando Solar-Lezama
POPL
2012
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
Resource-sensitive synchronization inference by abduction
We present an analysis which takes as its input a sequential program, augmented with annotations indicating potential parallelization opportunities, and a sequential proof, writte...
Matko Botincan, Mike Dodds, Suresh Jagannathan
POPL
2012
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
Run your research: on the effectiveness of lightweight mechanization
Formal models serve in many roles in the programming language community. In its primary role, a model communicates the idea of a language design; the architecture of a language to...
Casey Klein, John Clements, Christos Dimoulas, Car...