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Maintaining confidential information control in software is a persistent security problem where failure means secrets can be revealed via program behaviors. Information flow control techniques traditionally have been based on static or…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Ibrahim Mesecan , Daniel Blackwell , David Clark , Myra B. Cohen , Justyna Petke

This paper presents an integrity checker of JAVA P2P distributed system with auto source code composition. JAVA distributed system must guarantee the integrity of program itself and the system components of JAVA virtual machine against…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-10-31 Lican Huang

This paper introduces language-based agent control (LBAC), a new programming model for agentic applications that brings techniques from programming languages and language-based security to the problem of agent control. In conventional…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Timothy Zhou , Loris D'Antoni , Nadia Polikarpova

Automation platforms such as GitHub Actions and n8n are increasingly adopting so-called agentic workflows, which integrate Large Language Model (LLM) agents for tasks such as code review and data synchronization. While bringing convenience…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Neil Fendley , Zhengyu Liu , Aonan Guan , Jiacheng Zhong , Yinzhi Cao

This paper introduces the Unique Citing Documents Journal Impact Factor(Uniq-JIF) as a supplement to the traditional Journal Impact Factor(JIF). The Uniq-JIF counts each citing document only once, aiming to reduce the effects of citation…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Zhesi Shen , Li Li , Yu Liao

Extending a given language with new dedicated features is a general and quite used approach to make the programming language more adapted to problems. Being closer to the application, this leads to less programming flaws and easier…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-03-26 Claude Kirchner , Pierre-Etienne Moreau , Cláudia Tavares

Many algorithmic steps require more than one statement to implement, but not big enough to be a method (e.g., add element, find the maximum, determine a value, etc.). These steps are generally implemented by loops. Internal comments for the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Preetha Chatterjee

The cloud model's dependence on massive parallelism and resource sharing exacerbates the security challenge of timing side-channels. Timing Information Flow Control (TIFC) is a novel adaptation of IFC techniques that may offer a way to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-05-18 Bryan Ford

Developers often struggle with maintaining GitHub Actions workflow configurations in GitHub-hosted repositories, with recent studies showing frequent execution failures. This paper empirically explores how the adoption and evolution of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Aref Talebzadeh Bardsiri , Alexandre Decan , Tom Mens

The increasing development speed via Agile may introduce overlooked security steps in the process, with an example being the Iowa Caucus application. Verifying the protection of confidential information such as social security numbers…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Miles Frantz

ReScript introduces a strongly typed language that targets JavaScript, as an alternative to gradually typed languages, such as TypeScript. In this paper, we present a type system for data-flow analysis for a subset of the ReScript language,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Nicky Ask Lund , Hans Hüttel

The development of the SJ Framework for session-based distributed programming is part of recent and ongoing research into integrating session types and practical, real-world programming languages. SJ programs featuring session types…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-10-20 Nuno Alves , Raymond Hu , Nobuko Yoshida , Pierre-Malo Deniélou

Information flow control (IFC) provides confidentiality by enforcing noninterference, which ensures that high-secrecy values cannot affect low-secrecy values. Prior work introduces fine-grained IFC approaches that modify the programming…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Ada Lamba , Max Taylor , Vincent Beardsley , Jacob Bambeck , Michael D. Bond , Zhiqiang Lin

Static analysis tools come in many forms andconfigurations, allowing them to handle various tasks in a (secure) development process: code style linting, bug/vulnerability detection, verification, etc., and adapt to the specific requirements…

The scientific community has been studying graph data models for decades. Their high expressiveness and elasticity led the scientific community to design a variety of graph data models and graph query languages, and the practitioners to use…

Modern software development depends on APIs to reuse code and increase productivity. As most software systems, these libraries and frameworks also evolve, which may break existing clients. However, the main reasons to introduce breaking…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-08-09 Aline Brito , Laerte Xavier , Andre Hora , Marco Tulio Valente

This paper presents a logic based approach to debugging Java programs. In contrast with traditional debugging we propose a debugging methodology for Java programs using logical queries on individual execution states and also over the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Hani Girgis , Bharat Jayaraman

Modern programming languages like Java require runtime systems to support the implementation and deployment of software applications in diverse computing platforms and operating systems. These runtime systems are normally developed in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Salma Begum Tamanna , Gias Uddin , Lan Xia , Longyu Zhang

This work presents insights gained by investigating the relationship between algorithmic fairness and the concept of secure information flow. The problem of enforcing secure information flow is well-studied in the context of information…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Samuel Teuber , Bernhard Beckert

Just-in-Time (JIT) compilers are used by many modern programming systems in order to improve performance. Bugs in JIT compilers provide exploitable security vulnerabilities and debugging them is difficult as they are large, complex, and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-07-02 HeuiChan Lim , Stephen Kobourov