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Reversible distributed programs have the ability to abort unproductive computation paths and backtrack, while unwinding communication that occurred in the aborted paths. While it is natural to assume that reversibility implies full state…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-02-12 Geoffrey Brown , Amr Sabry

Ladder Logics is a programming language standardized in IEC 61131-3 and widely used for programming industrial Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC). A PLC program consists of inputs (whose values are given at runtime by factory sensors),…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Denis Cousineau , David Mentré , Hiroaki Inoue

Large language models (LLMs) have become central to modern AI workflows, powering applications from open-ended text generation to complex agent-based reasoning. However, debugging these models remains a persistent challenge due to their…

This PhD dissertation investigates garbage-free reversible computing systems from abstract design to physical gate-level implementation. Designed in reversible logic, we propose a ripple-block carry adder and work towards a reversible…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Michael Kirkedal Thomsen

This paper illustrates how a Prolog program, using chronological backtracking to find a solution in some search space, can be enhanced to perform intelligent backtracking. The enhancement crucially relies on the impurity of Prolog that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Maurice Bruynooghe

Reversible logic circuits have been historically motivated by theoretical research in low-power electronics as well as practical improvement of bit-manipulation transforms in cryptography and computer graphics. Recently, reversible circuits…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2013-03-21 Mehdi Saeedi , Igor L. Markov

Visual programs are executable code generated by large language models to address visual reasoning problems. They decompose complex questions into multiple reasoning steps and invoke specialized models for each step to solve the problems.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Xueqing Wu , Zongyu Lin , Songyan Zhao , Te-Lin Wu , Pan Lu , Nanyun Peng , Kai-Wei Chang

In the context of planning and reasoning about actions and change, we call an action reversible when its effects can be reverted by applying other actions, returning to the original state. Renewed interest in this area has led to several…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Wolfgang Faber , Michael Morak , Lukáš Chrpa

Debugging denotes the process of detecting root causes of unexpected observable behaviors in programs, such as a program crash, an unexpected output value being produced or an assertion violation. Debugging of program errors is a difficult…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Partha Pratim Ray , Ansuman Banerjee

Reversible computing is motivated by both pragmatic and foundational considerations arising from a variety of disciplines. We take a particular path through the development of reversible computation, emphasizing compositional reversible…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Jacques Carette , Chris Heunen , Robin Kaarsgaard , Amr Sabry

This paper presents a logic based approach to debugging Java programs. In contrast with traditional debugging we propose a debugging methodology for Java programs using logical queries on individual execution states and also over the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Hani Girgis , Bharat Jayaraman

Reversible logic is gaining interest of many researchers due to its low power dissipating characteristic. In this paper we proposed a new approach for designing online testable reversible circuits. The resultant testable reversible circuit…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2013-12-31 Md. Selim Al Mamun , Pronab Kumar Mondal , Uzzal Kumar Prodhan

Reversible logic has become immensely popular research area and its applications have spread in various technologies for their low power consumption. In this paper we proposed an efficient design of random access memory using reversible…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2013-12-31 Md. Selim Al Mamun , Syed Monowar Hossain

The semantic foundations for logic programming are usually separated into two different approaches. The operational semantics, which uses SLD-resolution, the proof method that computes answers in logic programming, and the declarative…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-08-02 João Barbosa , Mário Florido , Vítor Santos Costa

Logging statements are essential for software debugging and maintenance. However, existing approaches to automatic logging generation rely on static analysis and produce statements in a single pass without considering runtime behavior. They…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Xin Wang , Yang Feng , Jiaoxiao Qian , Yang Zhang , Zhenhao Li , Zishuo Ding

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable potential in debugging for various programming languages. However, the application of LLMs to Verilog debugging remains insufficiently explored. Here, we present VeriDebug, an…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Ning Wang , Bingkun Yao , Jie Zhou , Yuchen Hu , Xi Wang , Nan Guan , Zhe Jiang

By recording every state change in the run of a program, it is possible to present the programmer every bit of information that might be desired. Essentially, it becomes possible to debug the program by going ``backwards in time,'' vastly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2009-09-29 Bil Lewis

Debugging formal verification (FV) failures represents one of the most time-consuming bottlenecks in modern hardware design workflows. When properties fail, engineers must manually trace through complex counter-examples spanning multiple…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Yunsheng Bai , Ghaith Bany Hamad , Chia-Tung Ho , Syed Suhaib , Haoxing Ren

Reversible computation has been recognised as a potential solution to the technological bottleneck in the future of computing machinery. Rolf Landauer determined the lower limit for power dissipation in computation and noted that…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Harun Siljak , Julien de Rosny , Mathias Fink

Many logic programming languages have delay primitives which allow coroutining. This introduces a class of bug symptoms -- computations can flounder when they are intended to succeed or finitely fail. For concurrent logic programs this is…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2007-11-06 Lee Naish