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Formal techniques have been shown to be useful in the development of correct software. But the level of expertise required of practitioners of these techniques prohibits their widespread adoption. Formal techniques need to be tailored to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2007-05-23 William Heaven , Alessandra Russo

Declarative specifications have a vital role to play in developing safe and dependable software systems. Writing specifications correctly, however, remains particularly challenging. This paper presents a controlled experiment on using large…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Yang Hong , Shan Jiang , Yulei Fu , Sarfraz Khurshid

Alloy and TLA+ are two formal specification languages that are increasingly popular due to their simplicity and flexibility, as well as the effectiveness of their companion model checkers, the Alloy Analyzer and TLC, respectively.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-03-14 Nuno Macedo , Alcino Cunha

Writing declarative models has numerous benefits, ranging from automated reasoning and correction of design-level properties before systems are built, to automated testing and debugging of their implementations after they are built. Alloy…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Ana Jovanovic , Allison Sullivan

Finite model finders give users the ability to specify properties of a system in mathematical logic and then automatically find concrete examples, called solutions, that satisfy the properties. These solutions are often viewed as a key…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Allison Sullivan

Modelling software product line (SPL) features plays a crucial role to a successful development of SPL. Feature diagram is one of the widely used notations to model SPL variants. However, there is a lack of precisely defined formal…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-10-02 Shamim Ripon , Sk. Jahir Hossain , Touhid Bhuiyan

Fault localization is a popular research topic and many techniques have been proposed to locate faults in imperative code, e.g. C and Java. In this paper, we focus on the problem of fault localization for declarative models in Alloy -- a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Kaiyuan Wang , Allison Sullivan , Darko Marinov , Sarfraz Khurshid

The Unified Modeling Language (UML) community has started to define so-called profiles in order to better suit the needs of specific domains or settings. Product lines1 represent a special breed of systems they are extensible semi-finished…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-10-16 Wolfgang Pree , Marcus Fontoura , Bernhard Rumpe

Large Language Models (LLMs) are general-purpose tools with wide-ranging applications, including in materials science. In this work, we introduce aLLoyM, a fine-tuned LLM specifically trained on alloy compositions, temperatures, and their…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-30 Yuna Oikawa , Guillaume Deffrennes , Taichi Abe , Ryo Tamura , Koji Tsuda

We study whether Large Language Models (LLMs) can perform feature model analysis operations (AOs) directly on semi-formal textual blueprints, i.e., concise constrained-language descriptions of feature hierarchies and constraints, enabling…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Viet-Man Le , Thi Ngoc Trang Tran , Sebastian Lubos , Alexander Felfernig , Damian Garber

Alloy is well known a declarative modeling language. A key strength of Alloy is its scenario finding toolset, the Analyzer, which allows users to explore all valid scenarios that adhere to the model's constraints up to a user-provided…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Mohammad Nurullah Patwary , Ana Jovanovic , Allison Sullivan

Foundation models (FMs) are changing the way medical images are analyzed by learning from large collections of unlabeled data. Instead of relying on manually annotated examples, FMs are pre-trained to learn general-purpose visual features…

The software industry aims to provide customers with quality software. Testing software is a critical and sensitive stage in ensuring software quality. Due to the increasing popularity of mobile devices, the use of Android applications has…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Fatemeh Mosayeb , Shohreh Ajoudanian

The study of variability in software development has become increasingly important in recent years. A common mechanism to represent the variability in a product line is by means of feature models. However, the relationship between these…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2010-01-26 Ariel Gonzalez , Carlos Luna

Factorization machine (FM) variants are widely used for large scale real-time content recommendation systems, since they offer an excellent balance between model accuracy and low computational costs for training and inference. These systems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Alex Shtoff , Elie Abboud , Rotem Stram , Oren Somekh

Fault localization is a practical research topic that helps developers identify code locations that might cause bugs in a program. Most existing fault localization techniques are designed for imperative programs (e.g., C and Java) and rely…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Guolong Zheng , ThanhVu Nguyen , Simón Gutiérrez Brida , Germán Regis , Marcelo F. Frias , Nazareno Aguirre , Hamid Bagheri

Alloy is formal modeling language based on first-order relational logic, with no specific support for specifying reactive systems. We propose the usage of temporal logic to specify such systems, and show how bounded model checking can be…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-06-26 Alcino Cunha

The enormous structural and chemical diversity of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) forces researchers to actively use simulation techniques on an equal footing with experiments. MOFs are widely known for outstanding adsorption properties, so…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-11-22 Vadim V. Korolev , Yurii M. Nevolin , Thomas A. Manz , Pavel V. Protsenko

Software Product Lines (SPLs) are families of related software systems which are distinguished by the set of features each system provides. Feature Models are the de facto standard for modelling the variability of SPLs because they describe…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Elmira Rezaei Sepasi , Kambiz Nezami Balouchi , Julien Mercier , Roberto Erick Lopez-Herrejon

Predicting the structural response of advanced multiphase alloys and understanding the underlying microscopic mechanisms that are responsible for it are two critically important roles modeling plays in alloy development. An alloys…

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