Advanced Synchronization Facility (ASF) is an AMD64 hardware extension for lock-free data structures and transactional memory. It provides a speculative region that atomically exec...
Jae-Woong Chung, Luke Yen, Stephan Diestelhorst, M...
Abstract--Despite much progress, developing a pervasive computing application remains a challenge because of a lack of conceptual frameworks and supporting tools. This challenge in...
Most software tools and environments help developers analyze the present and past development states of their software systems. Few approaches have investigated the potential cons...
Yuriy Brun, Reid Holmes, Michael D. Ernst, David N...
Use-after-free vulnerabilities exploiting so-called dangling pointers to deallocated objects are just as dangerous as buffer overflows: they may enable arbitrary code execution. U...
We consider the problem of specifying combinations of data structures with complex sharing in a manner that is both declarative lts in provably correct code. In our approach, abst...
Peter Hawkins, Alex Aiken, Kathleen Fisher, Martin...