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The synthesis of infinite-state reactive systems from temporal logic specifications or infinite-state games has attracted significant attention in recent years, leading to the emergence of novel solving techniques. Most approaches are…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Philippe Heim , Rayna Dimitrova

This paper presents an application of specification based runtime verification techniques to control mobile robots in a reactive manner. In our case study, we develop a layered control architecture where runtime monitors constructed from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Dogan Ulus , Calin Belta

Features in product lines and highly configurable systems can interact in ways that are contrary to developers' intent. Current methods to identify such unanticipated feature interactions are costly and inadequate. To address this problem…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Seyedehzahra Khoshmanesh , Tuba Yavuz , Robyn R. Lutz

Detecting semantic interference remains a challenge in collaborative software development. Recent lightweight static analysis techniques improve efficiency over SDG-based methods, but they still suffer from a high rate of false positives. A…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Victor Lira , Paulo Borba , Rodrigo Bonifácio , Galileu Santos e Matheus barbosa

The synthesis of reactive systems aims for the automated construction of strategies for systems that interact with their environment. Whereas the synthesis approach has the potential to change the development of reactive systems…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Linda Feeken , Martin Fränzle

We present Sequence Salience, a visual tool for interactive prompt debugging with input salience methods. Sequence Salience builds on widely used salience methods for text classification and single-token prediction, and extends this to a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Ian Tenney , Ryan Mullins , Bin Du , Shree Pandya , Minsuk Kahng , Lucas Dixon

We propose a novel approach to program synthesis, focusing on synthesizing database queries. At a high level, our proposed algorithm takes as input a sketch with soft constraints encoding user intent, and then iteratively interacts with the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Osbert Bastani , Xin Zhang , Armando Solar-Lezama

We present a small, formal language for specifying the behavior of simple console I/O programs. The design is driven by the concrete application case of testing interactive Haskell programs written by students. Specifications are…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Oliver Westphal , Janis Voigtländer

This paper shows the debugging facilities provided by the SLAM system. The SLAM system includes i) a specification language that integrates algebraic specifications and model-based specifications using the object oriented model. Class…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Angel Herrranz-Nieva Juan Jose Moreno Navarro

Effective debugging is a crucial aspect of software development, demanding problem-solving skills, expertise, and appropriate tools. Although previous research has studied expert developers' debugging strategies, the specific factors…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Maryam Arab , Jenny T. Liang , Valentina Hong , Thomas D. LaToza

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems address complex user requests by decomposing them into subqueries, retrieving potentially relevant documents for each, and then aggregating them to generate an answer. Efficiently selecting…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Roxana Petcu , Kenton Murray , Daniel Khashabi , Evangelos Kanoulas , Maarten de Rijke , Dawn Lawrie , Kevin Duh

In the \emph{Adapter Design Pattern}, a programmer implements a \emph{Target} interface by constructing an \emph{Adapter} that accesses an existing \emph{Adaptee} code. In this work, we present a reactive synthesis interpretation to the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Gal Amram , Suguman Bansal , Dror Fried , Lucas M. Tabajara , Moshe Y. Vardi , Gera Weiss

In the context of requirements engineering, relation extraction involves identifying and documenting the associations between different requirements artefacts. When dealing with textual requirements (i.e., requirements expressed using…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Quim Motger , Xavier Franch

Specification-based regression testing of web services is an important activity which verifies the quality of web services. A major problem in web services is that only provider has the source code and both user and broker only have the XML…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-06-04 Tehreem Masood , Aamer Nadeem , Gang-soo Lee

Reactive synthesis is an automatic way to translate a human intention expressed in some logic into a system of some kind. This thesis has two parts, devoted to logic and to systems. In Part I, we develop two new approaches to CTL*…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Ayrat Khalimov

This paper proposes a relational constraint driven technique that synthesizes test cases automatically for web applications. Using a static analysis, servlets can be modeled as relational transducers, which manipulate backend databases. We…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2010-09-21 Xiang Fu

In the international standard for system and software engineering ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288: 2015, the output of the stakeholder needs and the business or mission analysis technical processes are transformed into a technical view of the system by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Siyuan Ji , Charles E. Dickerson , Michael Wilkinson

Real-world RAG applications often encounter long-context input scenarios, where redundant information and noise results in higher inference costs and reduced performance. To address these challenges, we propose LongRefiner, an efficient…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Jiajie Jin , Xiaoxi Li , Guanting Dong , Yuyao Zhang , Yutao Zhu , Yongkang Wu , Zhonghua Li , Qi Ye , Zhicheng Dou

The so called ``cogen approach'' to program specialisation, writing a compiler generator instead of a specialiser, has been used with considerable success in partial evaluation of both functional and imperative languages. This paper…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Michael Leuschel , Jesper Joergensen , Wim Vanhoof , Maurice Bruynooghe

This paper tackles the problem of synthesizing specifications for nondeterministic programs. For such programs, useful specifications can capture demonic properties, which hold for every nondeterministic execution, but also angelic…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Kanghee Park , Xuanyu Peng , Loris D'Antoni