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Statistical Assertions for Validating Patterns and Finding Bugs in Quantum Programs by Huang, Yipeng, Martonosi, Margaret

“…In support of the growing interest in quantum computing experimentation, programmers need new tools to write quantum algorithms as program code. Compared to…”
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Inferring better contracts by Wei, Yi, Furia, Carlo A., Kazmin, Nikolay, Meyer, Bertrand

“…Considerable progress has been made towards automatic support for one of the principal techniques available to enhance program reliability: equipping programs…”
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Security protocols, properties, and their monitoring by Bauer, Andreas, Juerjens, Jan

“…This paper examines the suitability and use of runtime verification as means for monitoring security protocols and their properties. In particular, we employ…”
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Quality assurance of automotive hybrid embedded software by Zander-Nowicka, Justyna

“…Quality assurance (QA) is a crucial part of the software engineering, especially when the developed systems are safety-critical. It becomes even more complex…”
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Enabling the runtime assertion checking of concurrent contracts for the Java modeling language by Araujo, Wladimir, Briand, Lionel C., Labiche, Yvan

“…Though there exists ample support for Design by Contract (DbC) for sequential programs, applying DbC to concurrent programs presents several challenges. In…”
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CIVL: the concurrency intermediate verification language by Siegel, Stephen F., Zheng, Manchun, Luo, Ziqing, Zirkel, Timothy K., Marianiello, Andre V., Edenhofner, John G., Dwyer, Matthew B., Rogers, Michael S.

“…There are many ways to express parallel programs: message-passing libraries (MPI) and multithreading/GPU language extensions such as OpenMP, Pthreads, and…”
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STORM: static unit checking of concurrent programs by Rakamaric, Z.

“…Concurrency is inherent in today's software. Unexpected interactions between concurrently executing threads often cause subtle bugs in concurrent programs…”
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Dynamic symbolic data structure repair by Hussain, Ishtiaque, Csallner, Christoph

“…Generic repair of complex data structures is a new and exciting area of research. Existing approaches can integrate with good software engineering practices…”
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QED: a proof system based on reduction and abstraction for the static verification of concurrent software by Elmas, Tayfun

“…We present a proof system and supporting tool, QED, for the static verification of concurrent software. Our key idea is to simplify the verification of a…”
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Validation of contracts using enabledness preserving finite state abstractions by de Caso, Guido, Braberman, Victor, Garbervetsky, Diego, Uchitel, Sebastian

“…Pre/post condition-based specifications are common-place in a variety of software engineering activities that range from requirements through to design and…”
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Leveraging 3D PCRAM technologies to reduce checkpoint overhead for future exascale systems by Dong, Xiangyu, Muralimanohar, Naveen, Jouppi, Norm, Kaufmann, Richard, Xie, Yuan

“…The scalability of future massively parallel processing (MPP) systems is challenged by high failure rates. Current hard disk drive (HDD) checkpointing results…”
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A Sound Assertion Semantics for the Dependable Systems Evolution Verifying Compiler by Chalin, P.

“…The verifying compiler (VC) project is a core component of the dependable systems evolution grand challenge. The VC offers the promise of automatically proving…”
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Precise control flow reconstruction using boolean logic by Reinbacher, Thomas, Brauer, Jörg

“…This paper presents a SAT-based method for control flow graph reconstruction from executable code. The key idea of the technique is to express the semantics of…”
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Hierarchical application aware error detection and recovery by Iyer, Ravishankar K.

“…Proposed is a four-tired approach to develop and integrate detection and recovery support at different levels of the system hierarchy. The proposed mechanisms…”
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Towards a method of programming with assertions by Rosenblum, David S.

“…Embedded assertions have long been recognized as a Po- tentially powerful tool for automatic runtime detection of software faults during debugging, testing and…”
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Automatic trace analysis for logic of constraints by Chen, Xi, Hsieh, Harry, Balarin, Felice, Watanabe, Yosinori

“…Verification of system designs continues to be a major challenge today. Simulation remains the primary tool for making sure that implementations perform as…”
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Utilizing Formal Assertions for System Design of Network Processors by Chen, Xi, Luo, Yan, Hsieh, Harry, Bhuyan, Laxmi, Balarin, Felice

“…System level modeling with executable languages such as C/C++ has been crucial in the development of large electronic systems from general processors to…”
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Self-healing web service compositions by Guinea, Sam

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The property vector specification of a multiset iterator by Pearce, Trevor W., Lamb, David A.

“…Trace assertion specification methods constrain behaviour at the interface of a module by identifying legal sequences of calls to the module's access programs…”
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m-EVES: A tool for verifying software by Craigen, D., Kromodimoeljo, S., Meisels, I., Neilson, A., Pase, B., Saaltink, M.

“…This paper describes the development of a new tool for formally verifying software. The tool is called m-EVES and consists of a new language, called m-Verdi,…”
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