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This paper presents Gemini, a functional programming language for hardware description that provides features such as parametric polymorphism, recursive datatypes, higher-order functions, and type inference for higher expressivity compared…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Aditya Srinivasan , Andrew D. Hilton

This paper presents a language, Alda, that supports all of logic rules, sets, functions, updates, and objects as seamlessly integrated built-ins. The key idea is to support predicates in rules as set-valued variables that can be used and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Yanhong A. Liu , Scott D. Stoller , Yi Tong , Bo Lin

This paper explores the use of relational symbolic execution to counter timing side channels in WebAssembly programs. We design and implement Vivienne, an open-source tool to automatically analyze WebAssembly cryptographic libraries for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Rodothea Myrsini Tsoupidi , Musard Balliu , Benoit Baudry

In this article, we present musicaiz, an object-oriented library for analyzing, generating and evaluating symbolic music. The submodules of the package allow the user to create symbolic music data from scratch, build algorithms to analyze…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Carlos Hernandez-Olivan , Jose R. Beltran

Generating effective test inputs for a software system requires that these inputs be valid, as they will otherwise be rejected without reaching actual functionality. In the absence of a specification for the input language, common test…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Leon Bettscheider , Andreas Zeller

Symbolic music analysis tasks are often performed by models originally developed for Natural Language Processing, such as Transformers. Such models require the input data to be represented as sequences, which is achieved through a process…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Dinh-Viet-Toan Le , Louis Bigo , Mikaela Keller

Symbolic execution now becomes an indispensable technique for software testing and program analysis. There are several symbolic execution tools available off-the-shelf, and we need a practical benchmark approach to learn their capabilities.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-05-28 Hui Xu , Zirui Zhao , Yangfan Zhou , Michael R. Lyu

The need for rigorous process composition is encountered in many situations pertaining to the development and analysis of complex systems. We discuss the use of Classical Linear Logic (CLL) for correct-by-construction resource-based process…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Petros Papapanagiotou , Jacques Fleuriot

We present Glyph - a Python package for genetic programming based symbolic regression. Glyph is designed for usage let by numerical simulations let by real world experiments. For experimentalists, glyph-remote provides a separation of…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2018-03-22 Markus Quade , Julien Gout , Markus Abel

Scalable and automatic formal verification for concurrent systems is always demanding. In this paper, we propose a verification framework to support automated compositional reasoning for concurrent programs with shared variables. Our…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Fuyuan Zhang , Yongwang Zhao , David Sanan , Yang Liu , Alwen Tiu , Shang-Wei Lin , Jun Sun

Many security and software testing applications require checking whether certain properties of a program hold for any possible usage scenario. For instance, a tool for identifying software vulnerabilities may need to rule out the existence…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Roberto Baldoni , Emilio Coppa , Daniele Cono D'Elia , Camil Demetrescu , Irene Finocchi

Symbolic execution is a powerful program analysis technique that allows for the systematic exploration of all program paths. Path explosion, where the number of states to track becomes unwieldy, is one of the biggest challenges hindering…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Joshua Bailey , Charles Nicholas

Transformer based pre-trained large language models have become ubiquitous. There is increasing evidence to suggest that even with large scale pre-training, these models do not capture complete compositional context and certainly not, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Venkat Srinivasan , Vishaal Jatav , Anushka Chandrababu , Geetika Sharma

Symbolic execution is a software verification technique symbolically running programs and thereby checking for bugs. Ranged symbolic execution performs symbolic execution on program parts, so called path ranges, in parallel. Due to the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Jan Haltermanna , Marie-Christine Jakobs , Cedric Richter , Heike Wehrheim

Logic can be made useful for programming and for databases independently of logic programming. To be useful in this way, logic has to provide a mechanism for the definition of new functions and new relations on the basis of those given in…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-12-30 M. H. van Emden

Restructuring compilers use dependence analysis to prove that the meaning of a program is not changed by a transformation. A well-known limitation of dependence analysis is that it examines only the memory locations read and written by a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Nikolay Mateev , Vijay Menon , Keshav Pingali

Logic rules are powerful for expressing complex reasoning and analysis problems. At the same time, they are inconvenient or impossible to use for many other aspects of applications. Integrating rules in a language with sets and functions,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Yanhong A. Liu , Scott D. Stoller , Yi Tong , Bo Lin , K. Tuncay Tekle

This paper presents a new method for automatically generating numerical invariants for imperative programs. Given a program, our procedure computes a binary input/output relation on program states which over-approximates the behaviour of…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-02-03 Azadeh Farzan , Zachary Kincaid

Gaussian processes are a class of flexible nonparametric Bayesian tools that are widely used across the sciences, and in industry, to model complex data sources. Key to applying Gaussian process models is the availability of well-developed…

Computation · Statistics 2019-07-02 Jamie Fairbrother , Christopher Nemeth , Maxime Rischard , Johanni Brea , Thomas Pinder

Music Information Retrieval (MIR) has seen a recent surge in deep learning-based approaches, which often involve encoding symbolic music (i.e., music represented in terms of discrete note events) in an image-like or language like fashion.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-12 Huan Zhang , Emmanouil Karystinaios , Simon Dixon , Gerhard Widmer , Carlos Eduardo Cancino-Chacón