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Recently virtual platforms and virtual prototyping techniques have been widely applied for accelerating software development in electronics companies. It has been proved that these techniques can greatly shorten time-to-market and improve…

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Benchmarking functionalities in current commercial process mining tools allow organizations to contextualize their process performance through high-level performance indicators, such as completion rate or throughput time. However, they do…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Luka Abb , Majid Rafiei , Timotheus Kampik , Jana-Rebecca Rehse

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 AI synthesis problems such as planning or scheduling may be modelized as constraint satisfaction problems (CSP). A CSP is typically defined as the problem of finding any consistent labeling for a fixed set of variables satisfying all…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-03-25 Thomas Schiex

Symbolic execution is a well established method for test input generation. Despite of having achieved tremendous success over numerical domains, existing symbolic execution techniques for heap-based programs are limited due to the lack of a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Long H. Pham , Quang Loc Le , Quoc-Sang Phan , Jun Sun , Shengchao Qin

In this paper we present a comparative study of path feasibility queries generated during path exploration based software engineering methods. Symbolic execution based methods are gaining importance in different aspects of software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-02-21 Asankhaya Sharma

Benchmarking is generally accepted as an important element in demonstrating the correctness of computer simulations. In the modern sense, a benchmark is a computer simulation result that has evidence of correctness, is accompanied by…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 M. M. Turner , A. Derzsi , Z. Donko , D. Eremin , S. J. Kelly , T. Lafleur , T. Mussenbrock

A program can be viewed as a syntactic structure P (syntactic skeleton) parameterized by a collection of the identifiers V (variable names). This paper introduces the skeletal program enumeration (SPE) problem: Given a fixed syntactic…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-07-13 Qirun Zhang , Chengnian Sun , Zhendong Su

Mathematical reasoning is central to artificial intelligence, with applications in education, code generation, and research-level mathematical discovery. Mathematical competitions highlight two problem types: theorem proving, requiring…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Jialiang Sun , Yuzhi Tang , Ao Li , Chris J. Maddison , Kuldeep S. Meel

Message passing is the standard paradigm of programming in high-performance computing. However, verifying Message Passing Interface (MPI) programs is challenging, due to the complex program features (such as non-determinism and non-blocking…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Hengbiao Yu , Zhenbang Chen , Xianjin Fu , Ji Wang , Zhendong Su , Jun Sun , Chun Huang , Wei Dong

This paper proposes CES, a task to evaluate the abilities of LLMs in simulating program execution and using that reasoning in programming tasks. Besides measuring the correctness of variable predictions during execution simulation, CES…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Changshu Liu , Yang Chen , Reyhaneh Jabbarvand

Simulating physical systems is a core component of scientific computing, encompassing a wide range of physical domains and applications. Recently, there has been a surge in data-driven methods to complement traditional numerical simulations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Karl Otness , Arvi Gjoka , Joan Bruna , Daniele Panozzo , Benjamin Peherstorfer , Teseo Schneider , Denis Zorin

Symbolic execution is a technique which enables automatically generating test inputs (and outputs) exercising a set of execution paths within a program to be tested. If the paths cover a sufficient part of the code under test, the test data…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-01-22 Michaël Marcozzi , Wim Vanhoof , Jean-Luc Hainaut

Code-generating Large Language Models (LLMs) have become essential tools in modern software development, enhancing productivity and accelerating development. This paper aims to investigate the fine-tuning of code-generating LLMs using…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Marina Sakharova , Abhinav Anand , Mira Mezini

Symbolic execution detects vulnerabilities with precision, but applying it to large codebases requires harnesses that set up symbolic state, model dependencies, and specify assertions. Writing these harnesses has traditionally been a manual…

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A number of novel programming languages and libraries have been proposed that offer simpler-to-use models of concurrency than threads. It is challenging, however, to devise execution models that successfully realise their abstractions…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-03-24 Claudio Corrodi , Alexander Heußner , Christopher M. Poskitt

We present a technique to automatically generate search heuristics for dynamic symbolic execution. A key challenge in dynamic symbolic execution is how to effectively explore the program's execution paths to achieve high code coverage in a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Sooyoung Cha , Seongjoon Hong , Jingyoung Kim , Junhee Lee , Hakjoo Oh

Symbolic execution is at the core of many techniques for program analysis and test generation. Traditional symbolic execution of programs with numeric inputs enjoys the property of forking as many analysis traces as the number of analyzed…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Pietro Braione , Giovanni Denaro , Luca Guglielmo

Functional constraints and bi-functional constraints are an important constraint class in Constraint Programming (CP) systems, in particular for Constraint Logic Programming (CLP) systems. CP systems with finite domain constraints usually…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2010-06-17 Yuanlin Zhang , Roland H. C. Yap

Dynamic symbolic execution (DSE) is an effective method for automated program testing and bug detection. It is increasing the code coverage by the complex branches exploration during hybrid fuzzing. DSE tools invert the branches along some…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Darya Parygina , Alexey Vishnyakov , Andrey Fedotov