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CAV
2009
Springer
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Meta-analysis for Atomicity Violations under Nested Locking
Abstract. We study the problem of determining, given a run of a concurrent program, whether there is any alternate execution of it that violates atomicity, where atomicity is defin...
Azadeh Farzan, P. Madhusudan, Francesco Sorrentino
CAV
2009
Springer
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Predecessor Sets of Dynamic Pushdown Networks with Tree-Regular Constraints
Abstract. Dynamic Pushdown Networks (DPNs) are a model for parallel programs with (recursive) procedures and process creation. The goal of this paper is to develop generic techniqu...
Alexander Wenner, Markus Müller-Olm, Peter La...
CAV
2009
Springer
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16 years 7 months ago
Better Quality in Synthesis through Quantitative Objectives
Abstract. Most specification languages express only qualitative constraints. However, among two implementations that satisfy a given specification, one may be preferred to another....
Roderick Bloem, Krishnendu Chatterjee, Thomas A. H...
CHI
2008
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Heuristic evaluation for games: usability principles for video game design
Most video games require constant interaction, so game designers must pay careful attention to usability issues. However, there are few formal methods for evaluating the usability...
David Pinelle, Nelson Wong
POPL
2007
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Context logic as modal logic: completeness and parametric inexpressivity
Separation Logic, Ambient Logic and Context Logic are based on a similar style of reasoning about structured data. They each consist of a structural (separating) composition for r...
Cristiano Calcagno, Philippa Gardner, Uri Zarfaty