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The challenges hidden in the implementation of high-level process calculi into low-level environments are well understood [3]. This paper develops a secure implementation of a typed pi calculus, in which capability types are employed to realize the policies for the access to comm…
Type-preserving compilation can improve software reliability by generating code that can be verified independently of the compiler. Practical type preserving compilation does not exist for languages with multiple inheritance. This paper presents Emi, the first typed intermediate …
In recent years we have seen great progress made in the area of automatic source-level static analysis tools. However, most of today's program verification tools are limited to properties that guarantee the absence of bad events (safety properties). Until now no formal software a…
ML modules and Haskell type classes have proven to be highly effective tools for program structuring. Modules emphasize explicit configuration of program components and the use of data abstraction. Type classes emphasize implicit program construction and ad hoc polymorphism. In t…
We introduce lock allocation, an automatic technique that takes a multi-threaded program annotated with atomic sections (that must be executed atomically), and infers a lock assignment from global variables to locks and a lock instrumentation that determines where each lock shoul…
We propose a new technique for hardware synthesis from higher-order functional languages with imperative features based on Reynolds's Syntactic Control of Interference. The restriction on contraction in the type system is useful for managing the thorny issue of sharing of physica…
Dynamic test generation is a form of dynamic program analysis that attempts to compute test inputs to drive a program along a specific program path. Directed Automated Random Testing, or DART for short, blends dynamic test generation with model checking techniques with the goal o…
In this paper, we propose a new algorithm for proving the validity or invalidity of a pre/postcondition pair for a program. The algorithm is motivated by the success of the algorithms for probabilistic inference developed in the machine learning community for reasoning in graphic…
An asynchronous program is one that contains procedure calls which are not immediately executed from the callsite, but stored and “dispatched” in a non-deterministic order by an external scheduler at a later point. We formalize the problem of interprocedural dataflow analysis for…
A memory leak in a garbage-collected program occurs when the program inadvertently maintains references to objects that it no longer needs. Memory leaks cause systematic heap growth, degrading performance and resulting in program crashes after perhaps days or weeks of execution. …
We present an internal language with equivalent expressive power to Standard ML, and discuss its formalization in LF and the machine-checked verification of its type safety in Twelf. The internal language is intended to serve as the target of elaboration in an elaborative semanti…
There is a clear intuitive connection between the notion of leakage of information in a program and concepts from information theory. This intuition has not been satisfactorily pinned down, until now. In particular, previous information-theoretic models of programs are imprecise,…
Inter-language interoperability is big business, as the success of Microsoft's .NET and COM and Sun's JVM show. Programming language designers are designing programming languages that reflect that fact --- SML#, Mondrian, and Scala, to name just a few examples, all treat interope…
This work presents a framework for fusing flow analysis and theorem proving called logic-flow analysis (LFA). The framework itself is the reduced product of two abstract interpretations: (1) an abstract state machine and (2) a set of propositions in a restricted first-order logic…
Enterprise software systems automate the business processes of most nontrivial organizations in the world economy. These systems are immensely complex, and their function is critical to our living standards and everyday lives. Their design, implementation, and maintenance occupie…
Race detection algorithms for multi-threaded programs using the common lock-based synchronization idiom must correlate locks with the memory locations they guard. The heart of a proof of race freedom is showing that if two locks are distinct, then the memory locations they guard …