Completing software maintenance and evolution tasks for today’s large, complex software systems can be difficult, often requiring considerable time to understand the system well...
In prior work [15] we studied a language construct restrict that allows programmers to specify that certain pointers are not aliased to other pointers used within a lexical scope....
Alexander Aiken, Jeffrey S. Foster, John Kodumal, ...
A new stochastic method for locating the global minimum of a multidimensional function inside a rectangular hyperbox is presented. A sampling technique is employed that makes use ...
There have been several efforts to bring static type inference to object-oriented dynamic languages such as Ruby, Python, and Perl. In our experience, however, such type inference...
Jong-hoon (David) An, Avik Chaudhuri, Jeffrey S. F...
We describe a new algorithm for proving temporal properties expressed in LTL of infinite-state programs. Our approach takes advantage of the fact that LTL properties can often be...