POPL
2016
ACM
8 years 7 months ago
2016
ACM
We introduce a strengthening of the release-acquire fragment of the C11 memory model that (i) forbids dubious behaviors that are not observed in any implementation; (ii) supports ...
POPL
2016
ACM
8 years 7 months ago
2016
ACM
In this paper we develop semantics for key aspects of the ARMv8 multiprocessor architecture: the concurrency model and much of the 64-bit application-level instruction set (ISA). ...
POPL
2016
ACM
8 years 7 months ago
2016
ACM
Recently, Esparza et al. generalized Newton’s method—a numerical-analysis algorithm for finding roots of real-valued functions—to a method for finding fixed-points of sys...
POPL
2016
ACM
8 years 7 months ago
2016
ACM
Inductive invariants can be robustly synthesized using a learning model where the teacher is a program verifier who instructs the learner through concrete program configurations...
POPL
2016
ACM
8 years 7 months ago
2016
ACM
Programmers have come to embrace dynamically-typed languages for prototyping and delivering large and complex systems. When it comes to maintaining and evolving these systems, the...
POPL
2016
ACM
8 years 7 months ago
2016
ACM
Ordinary differential equations (ODEs) are widespread in many natural sciences including chemistry, ecology, and systems biology, and in disciplines such as control theory and ele...
POPL
2016
ACM
8 years 7 months ago
2016
ACM
Reconstructing the meaning of a program from its binary executable is known as reverse engineering; it has a wide range of applications in software security, exposing piracy, lega...
POPL
2016
ACM
8 years 7 months ago
2016
ACM
We present and illustrate Kleenex, a language for expressing general nondeterministic finite transducers, and its novel compilation to streaming string transducers with worst-cas...
POPL
2016
ACM
8 years 7 months ago
2016
ACM
Reverse engineering is an important tool in mitigating vulnerabilities in binaries. As a lot of software is developed in object-oriented languages, reverse engineering of object-o...
POPL
2016
ACM
8 years 7 months ago
2016
ACM
Induction is a successful approach for verification of hardware and software systems. A common practice is to model a system using logical formulas, and then use a decision proce...