Traditional code optimizers have produced significant performance improvements over the past forty years. While promising avenues of research still exist, traditional static and p...
Jason Hiser, Naveen Kumar, Min Zhao, Shukang Zhou,...
Fast, accurate, and effective performance analysis is essential for the design of modern processor architectures and improving application performance. Recent trends toward highly...
Ramadass Nagarajan, Xia Chen, Robert G. McDonald, ...
Dynamic software bug detection tools are commonly used because they leverage run-time information. However, they suffer from a fundamental limitation, the Path Coverage Problem: t...
In this paper we explore the problem of creating vulnerability signatures. A vulnerability signature matches all exploits of a given vulnerability, even polymorphic or metamorphic...
David Brumley, James Newsome, Dawn Xiaodong Song, ...
For transactional memory (TM) to achieve widespread acceptance, transactions should not be limited to the physical resources of any specific hardware implementation. TM systems s...
JaeWoong Chung, Chi Cao Minh, Austen McDonald, Tra...