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This work presents a dual-agent \ac{llm}-based reasoning framework for automated planar mechanism synthesis that tightly couples linguistic specification with symbolic representation and simulation. From a natural-language task description,…

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Common programming tools, like compilers, debuggers, and IDEs, crucially rely on the ability to analyse program code to reason about its behaviour and properties. There has been a great deal of work on verifying compilers and static…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-07-15 Jan Stolarek , James Cheney

Obfuscation poses a persistent challenge for software engineering tasks such as program comprehension, maintenance, testing, and vulnerability detection. While compiler optimizations and third-party code often introduce transformations that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Rong Feng , Suman Saha

The ability of Large Language Models (LLMs) to precisely follow complex and fine-grained lexical instructions is a cornerstone of their utility and controllability. However, evaluating this capability remains a significant challenge.…

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We introduce MILE-RefHumEval, a reference-free framework for evaluating Large Language Models (LLMs) without ground-truth annotations or evaluator coordination. It leverages an ensemble of independently prompted evaluators guided by a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Nalin Srun , Parisa Rastin , Guénaël Cabanes , Lydia Boudjeloud Assala

Software requirement analysis can certainly benefit from prevention and early detection of failures, in particular by some kind of automatic analysis. Formal methods offer means to represent and analyze requirements with rigorous tools,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Marzina Vidal , Tiago Massoni , Franklin Ramalho

We present a theory of parameterized dynamic logic, namely DLp, for specifying and reasoning about a rich set of program models based on their transitional behaviours. Different from most dynamic logics that deal with regular expressions or…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Yuanrui Zhang

A number of introductory textbooks for Haskell use calculations right from the start to give the reader insight into the evaluation of expressions and the behavior of functional programs. Many programming concepts that are important in the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2014-12-17 Tim Olmer , Bastiaan Heeren , Johan Jeuring

We introduce an application for executing and testing different unconstrained optimization algorithms. The application contains a library of various test functions with pre-defined starting points. A several known classes of methods as well…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Marko Miladinović , Predrag Živadinović

We present GradSTL, the first fully comprehensive implementation of signal temporal logic (STL) suitable for integration with neurosymbolic learning. In particular, GradSTL can successfully evaluate any STL constraint over any signal,…

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This paper proposes {\pi}, a formal semantic framework for compiler construction together with program validation. {\pi} is comprised by {\pi} Lib, a set of programming languages constructs inspired by Peter Mosses' Component-Based…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Christiano Braga

Pull-tabbing is an evaluation technique for functional logic programs which computes all non-deterministic results in a single graph structure. Pull-tab steps are local graph transformations to move non-deterministic choices towards the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Michael Hanus , Finn Teegen

Software malleability allows applications to be easily changed, configured, and adapted even after deployment. While prior work has explored configurable systems, adaptive recommender systems, and malleable GUIs, these approaches are often…

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A prototype for an extensible interactive graphical term manipulation system is presented that combines pattern matching and nondeterministic evaluation to provide a convenient framework for doing tedious algebraic manipulations that so far…

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The structural identifiability and the observability of a model determine the possibility of inferring its parameters and states by observing its outputs. These properties should be analysed before attempting to calibrate a model.…

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Systems that support users in the automatic creation of visualizations must address several subtasks - understand the semantics of data, enumerate relevant visualization goals and generate visualization specifications. In this work, we pose…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Victor Dibia

We present a new approach to automated reasoning about higher-order programs by endowing symbolic execution with a notion of higher-order, symbolic values. Our approach is sound and relatively complete with respect to a first-order solver…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-03-22 Phuc C. Nguyen , Sam Tobin-Hochstadt , David Van Horn

Many software development tasks, such as implementing features and fixing bugs, begin with developers posing questions about a codebase. However, answering questions about codebases that span millions of lines of code across thousands of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Amirmohammad Nazari , Sadra Sabouri , Wang Bill Zhu , Robin Jia , Souti Chattopadhyay , Mukund Raghothaman

While developers increasingly adopt tools powered by large language models (LLMs) in day-to-day workflows, these tools still require explicit user invocation. To seamlessly integrate LLM capabilities to a developer's workflow, we introduce…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Sebastian Zhao , Alan Zhu , Hussein Mozannar , David Sontag , Ameet Talwalkar , Valerie Chen

Requirements elicitation can be very challenging in projects that require deep domain knowledge about the system at hand. As analysts have the full control over the elicitation process, their lack of knowledge about the system under study…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Zahra Shakeri Hossein Abad , Munib Rahman , Abdullah Cheema , Vincenzo Gervasi , Didar Zowghi , Ken Barker