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Context-bounded analysis has been shown to be both efficient and effective at finding bugs in concurrent programs. According to its original definition, context-bounded analysis explores all behaviors of a concurrent program up to some…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Mohamed Faouzi Atig , Ahmed Bouajjani , Shaz Qadeer

Program synthesis is the generation of a program from a specification. Correct synthesis is difficult, and methods that provide formal guarantees suffer from scalability issues. On the other hand, neural networks are able to generate…

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DNA-based storage offers unprecedented density and durability, but its scalability is fundamentally limited by the efficiency of parallel strand synthesis. Existing methods either allow unconstrained nucleotide additions to individual…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Boaz Moav , Ryan Gabrys , Eitan Yaakobi

The additional complexity caused by concurrently communicating processes in distributed systems render the verification of such systems into a very hard problem. Multiparty session types were developed to govern communication and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Kirstin Peters , Christoph Wagner , Uwe Nestmann

Massive strides in deterministic models have been made using synchronous languages. They are mainly focused on centralised applications, as the traditional approach is to compile away the concurrency. Time triggered languages such as Giotto…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Logan Kenwright , Partha Roop , Nathan Allen , Călin Caşcaval , Avinash Malik

We propose a convex distributed optimization algorithm for synthesizing robust controllers for large-scale continuous time systems subject to exogenous disturbances. Given a large scale system, instead of solving the larger centralized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-02 Mohamadreza Ahmadi , Murat Cubuktepe , Ufuk Topcu , Takashi Tanaka

Rule-based systems remain central in safety-critical domains but often struggle with scalability, brittleness, and goal misspecification. These limitations can lead to reward hacking and failures in formal verification, as AI systems tend…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Zainab Rehan , Christian Medeiros Adriano , Sona Ghahremani , Holger Giese

In concurrent and distributed systems, software components are expected to communicate according to predetermined protocols and APIs - and if a component does not observe them, the system's reliability is compromised. Furthermore, isolating…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Christian Batrolo Burlò , Adrian Francalanza , Alceste Scalas

Geo-replicated systems provide a number of desirable properties such as globally low latency, high availability, scalability, and built-in fault tolerance. Unfortunately, programming correct applications on top of such systems has proven to…

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Many tools and libraries are readily available to build and operate distributed Web applications. While the setup of operational environments is comparatively easy, practice shows that their continuous secure operation is more difficult to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-07-13 Matteo Maria Casalino , Michele Mangili , Henrik Plate , Serena Elisa Ponta

Beginning programmers struggle with the complex grammar of modern programming languages like Java, and make lot of syntax errors. The diagnostic syntax error messages from compilers and IDEs are sometimes useful, but often the messages are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Toufique Ahmed , Noah Rose Ledesma , Premkumar Devanbu

Detecting deadlocks in MPI synchronization communication programs is very difficult and need building program models. All complex models are based on sequential models. The sequential model is mapped into a set of character strings and its…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2007-09-25 Liao Ming-Xue , He Xiao-Xin , Fan Zhi-Hua

Automatic synthesis of hardware components from declarative specifications is an ambitious endeavor in computer aided design. Existing synthesis algorithms are often implemented with Binary Decision Diagrams (BDDs), inheriting their…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-11-15 Roderick Bloem , Robert Koenighofer , Martina Seidl

Program synthesis aims to automatically construct human-readable programs that satisfy given task specifications, such as input/output pairs or demonstrations. Recent works have demonstrated encouraging results in a variety of domains, such…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Linghan Zhong , Ryan Lindeborg , Jesse Zhang , Joseph J. Lim , Shao-Hua Sun

Runtime verification is a computing analysis paradigm based on observing a system at runtime (to check its expected behaviour) by means of monitors generated from formal specifications. Distributed runtime verification is runtime…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Giorgio Audrito , Ferruccio Damiani , Volker Stolz , Mirko Viroli

A major bottleneck in search-based program synthesis is the exponentially growing search space which makes learning large programs intractable. Humans mitigate this problem by leveraging the compositional nature of the real world: In…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Jonas Witt , Sebastijan Dumančić , Tias Guns , Claus-Christian Carbon

In this paper, we address the problem of manual debugging, which nowadays remains resource-intensive and in some parts archaic. This problem is especially evident in increasingly complex and distributed software systems. Therefore, our…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Dennis Schiese , Andreas Both

In this paper, we develop a novel verification technique to reason about programs featuring concurrency, pointers and randomization. While the integration of concurrency and pointers is well studied, little is known about the combination of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Ira Fesefeldt , Joost-Pieter Katoen , Thomas Noll

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) such as autonomous cars, aircraft, and robots are often also safety-critical; thus it is imperative that they operate as intended with a high degree of certainty. Formal verification has been employed to verify…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Serra Z. Dane , Jiawei Chen , Marc Pouzet , Jean-Baptiste Jeannin

Programming systems incorporating aspects of functional programming, e.g., higher-order functions, are becoming increasingly popular for large-scale distributed programming. New frameworks such as Apache Spark leverage functional techniques…

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