ACL2 is the latest inception of the Boyer-Moore theorem prover, the 2005 recipient of the ACM Software System Award. In the hands of an expert, it feels like a finely tuned race ...
Peter C. Dillinger, Panagiotis Manolios, Daron Vro...
Security remains a major roadblock to universal acceptance of the Web for many kinds of transactions, especially since the recent sharp increase in remotely exploitable vulnerabil...
Yao-Wen Huang, Fang Yu, Christian Hang, Chung-Hung...
Formal code inspections are employed by teams of professional software engineers to identify software defects and improve the quality of software. After reviewing a piece of code ...
Christopher D. Hundhausen, Anukrati Agrawal, Dana ...
Embedded code pointers (ECPs) are stored handles of functions and continuations commonly seen in low-level binaries as well as functional or higher-order programs. ECPs are known ...
Proof-carrying code (PCC) is a general framework that can, in principle, verify safety properties of arbitrary machine-language programs. Existing PCC systems and typed assembly l...