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VMCAI
2009
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
Finding Concurrency-Related Bugs Using Random Isolation
This paper describes the methods used in Empire, a tool to detect concurrency-related bugs, namely atomic-set serializability violations in Java programs. The correctness criterion...
Nicholas Kidd, Thomas W. Reps, Julian Dolby, Manda...
VMCAI
2009
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
Mixed Transition Systems Revisited
—A variety of partial modeling formalisms, aimed re and reason about abstractions, have been proposed. Some, e.g., Kripke Modal Transition Systems (KMTSs) put strong restrictions...
Ou Wei, Arie Gurfinkel, Marsha Chechik
ICFEM
2009
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
Qualitative Action Systems
An extension to action systems is presented facilitating the modeling of continuous behavior in the discrete domain. The original action system formalism has been developed by Back...
Bernhard K. Aichernig, Harald Brandl, Willibald Kr...
KBSE
2008
IEEE
16 years 27 days ago
The Consistency of Web Conversations
Abstract—We describe BPELCheck, a tool for statically analyzing interactions of composite web services implemented in BPEL. Our algorithm is compositional, and checks each proces...
Jeffrey Fischer, Rupak Majumdar, Francesco Sorrent...
APSEC
2007
IEEE
16 years 25 days ago
An Executable UML with OCL-based Action Semantics Language
Executable UML allows precisely describing the softtem at a higher level of abstraction. It bridges the semantics gap between the UML design models and the implementation. The exe...
Ke Jiang, Lei Zhang, Shigeru Miyake