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POPL
1998
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Higher-Order unCurrying
We present a formal specification of unCurrying for a higher-order, functional language with ML-style let-polymorphism. This specification supports the general unCurrying of func...
John Hannan, Patrick Hicks
POPL
2007
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Types, bytes, and separation logic
We present a formal model of memory that both captures the lowlevel features of C's pointers and memory, and that forms the basis for an expressive implementation of separati...
Harvey Tuch, Gerwin Klein, Michael Norrish
IAT
2006
IEEE
16 years 6 days ago
Specification and Verification of Dynamics in Cognitive Agent Models
Within many domains, among which biological and cognitive areas, multiple interacting processes occur among agents with dynamics that are hard to handle. Current approaches to ana...
Tibor Bosse, Catholijn M. Jonker, Lourens van der ...
IFL
2007
Springer
221views Formal Methods» more  IFL 2007»
16 years 9 days ago
From Contracts Towards Dependent Types: Proofs by Partial Evaluation
Abstract. The specification and resolution of non-trivial domain constraints has become a well-recognised measure for improving the stability of large software systems. In this pa...
Stephan Herhut, Sven-Bodo Scholz, Robert Bernecky,...
CAV
2005
Springer
106views Hardware» more  CAV 2005»
15 years 11 months ago
Incremental Algorithms for Inter-procedural Analysis of Safety Properties
Automaton-based static program analysis has proved to be an effective tool for bug finding. Current tools generally re-analyze a program from scratch in response to a change in t...
Christopher L. Conway, Kedar S. Namjoshi, Dennis D...