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Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-11-12 Manuel Mazzara , Michele Ciavotta

Implementing a security mechanism on top of APIs requires clear understanding of the semantics of each API, to ensure that security entitlements are enforced consistently and completely across all APIs that could perform the same function…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Somesh Jha , Mihai Christodorescu , Anh Pham

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

We present Proof-of-Perception (PoP), a tool-using framework that casts multimodal reasoning as an executable graph with explicit reliability guarantees. Each perception or logic node outputs a conformal set, yielding calibrated, stepwise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Arya Fayyazi , Haleh Akrami

OpenAPI indicates a behavior where producers offer Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to help end-users access their data, resources, and services. Generally, API has many parameters that need to be entered. However, it is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Shujun Wang , Yongqiang Tian , Dengcheng He

Program synthesis techniques construct or infer programs from user-provided specifications, such as input-output examples. Yet most specifications, especially those given by end-users, leave the synthesis problem radically ill-posed,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Yewen Pu , Kevin Ellis , Marta Kryven , Josh Tenenbaum , Armando Solar-Lezama

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), which encapsulate the implementation of specific functions as interfaces, greatly improve the efficiency of modern software development. As numbers of APIs spring up nowadays, developers can hardly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Yun Peng , Shuqing Li , Wenwei Gu , Yichen Li , Wenxuan Wang , Cuiyun Gao , Michael Lyu

Determining if two protocols can be securely composed requires analyzing not only their additive properties but also their destructive properties. In this paper we propose a new composition method for constructing protocols based on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-09-01 Bela Genge , Iosif Ignat , Piroska Haller

A number of flexible tactic-based logical frameworks are nowadays available that can implement a wide range of mathematical theories using a common higher-order metalanguage. Used as proof assistants, one of the advantages of such powerful…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-03-26 João Marcos

Deep Learning experiments have critical requirements regarding the careful handling of their datasets as well as the efficient and correct usage of APIs that interact with hardware accelerators. On the one hand, software mistakes during…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Nick Papoulias

Digital tool-based agents, powered by Large Language Models (LLMs), that invoke external Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) often rely on documentation to understand API functionality. However, such documentation is frequently…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Bhrij Patel , Ashish Jagmohan , Aditya Vempaty

Semantic Web technologies offer the prospect of significantly reducing the amount of effort required to integrate existing enterprise functionality in support of new composite processes; whether within a given organization or across…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-06-04 Jinghai Rao , Dimitar Dimitrov , Paul Hofmann , Norman Sadeh

Protocols do not work alone, but together, one protocol relying on another to provide needed services. Many of the problems in cryptographic protocols arise when such composition is done incorrectly or is not well understood. In this paper…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-03-02 Sonia Santiago , Santiago Escobar , Catherine Meadows , José Meseguer

Swarm protocols are a recently introduced formalism for specifying, implementing, and verifying peer-to-peer systems called swarms. A swarm consists of distributed agents called machines that communicate by asynchronous event propagation.…

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As the amount of textual data in various fields, including software development, continues to grow, there is a pressing demand for efficient and effective extraction and presentation of meaningful insights. This paper presents a unique…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-21 AmirHossein Naghshzan , Sylvie Ratte

Initiated by Abramsky [1994], the Proofs as Processes agenda is to establish a solid foundation for the study of concurrent languages, by researching the connection between linear logic and the $\pi$-calculus. To date, Proofs as Processes…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Fabrizio Montesi , Marco Peressotti

Developers often wonder how to implement a certain functionality (e.g., how to parse XML files) using APIs. Obtaining an API usage sequence based on an API-related natural language query is very helpful in this regard. Given a query,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-07-17 Xiaodong Gu , Hongyu Zhang , Dongmei Zhang , Sunghun Kim

Dependency analysis is a technique to identify and determine data dependencies between service protocols. Protocols evolving concurrently in the service composition need to impose an order in their execution if there exist data…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2010-07-30 Javier Cubo , Ernesto Pimentel , Gwen Salaün , Carlos Canal

Component-based synthesis seeks to build programs using the APIs provided by a set of libraries. Oftentimes, these APIs have effects, which make it challenging to reason about the correctness of potential synthesis candidates. This is…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Ashish Mishra , Suresh Jagannathan

We present a tractable method for synthesizing arbitrarily large concurrent programs, for a shared memory model with common hardware-available primitives such as atomic registers, compare-and-swap, load-linked/store conditional, etc. The…

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