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Fuzzing is one of the key techniques for evaluating the robustness of programs against attacks. Fuzzing has to be effective in producing inputs that cover functionality and find vulnerabilities. But it also has to be efficient in producing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Rahul Gopinath , Andreas Zeller

Appropriate test data is a crucial factor to reach success in dynamic software testing, e.g., fuzzing. Most of the real-world applications, however, accept complex structure inputs containing data surrounded by meta-data which is processed…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Morteza Zakeri Nasrabadi , Saeed Parsa , Akram Kalaee

The approach described here allows to use the fuzzy Object Based Representation of imprecise and uncertain knowledge. This representation has a great practical interest due to the possibility to realize reasoning on classification with a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-06-13 Mohamed Nazih Omri

The Satisfiability (SAT) problem is a core challenge with significant applications in software engineering, including automated testing, configuration management, and program verification. This paper presents SolSearch, a novel framework…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Junjie Sheng , Yanqiu Lin , Jiehao Wu , Yanhong Huang , Jianqi Shi , Min Zhang , Xiangfeng Wang

One of the main challenges in the area of Neuro-Symbolic AI is to perform logical reasoning in the presence of both neural and symbolic data. This requires combining heterogeneous data sources such as knowledge graphs, neural model…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Matthias Lanzinger , Stefano Sferrazza , Przemysław A. Wałęga , Georg Gottlob

We present a novel approach for solving quantified bit-vector formulas in Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) based on computing symbolic inverses of bit-vector operators. We derive conditions that precisely characterize when bit-vector…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Aina Niemetz , Mathias Preiner , Andrew Reynolds , Clark Barrett , Cesare Tinelli

Fuzzing has become a commonly used approach to identifying bugs in complex, real-world programs. However, interpreters are notoriously difficult to fuzz effectively, as they expect highly structured inputs, which are rarely produced by most…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Christopher Salls , Chani Jindal , Jake Corina , Christopher Kruegel , Giovanni Vigna

Dynamic symbolic execution (DSE) is a powerful method for path exploration during hybrid fuzzing and automatic bug detection. We propose security predicates to effectively detect undefined behavior and memory access violation errors.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Alexey Vishnyakov , Vlada Logunova , Eli Kobrin , Daniil Kuts , Darya Parygina , Andrey Fedotov

Software testing relates to the process of accessing the functionality of a program against some defined specifications. To ensure conformance, test engineers often generate a set of test cases to validate against the user requirements.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-02-16 Kamal Z. Zamli , Fakhrud Din , Graham Kendall , Bestoun S. Ahmed

Storage systems are fundamental to modern computing infrastructures, yet ensuring their correctness remains challenging in practice. Despite decades of research on system testing, many storage-system failures (including durability,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Ying Wang , Jiahui Chen , Dejun Jiang

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for tasks that implicitly reduce to Boolean satisfiability (SAT), yet their reasoning ability on SAT remains unclear. We present a systematic study of LLMs on 2-SAT and 3-SAT, together with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Leizhen Zhang , Shuhan Chen , Sheng Chen

Both hybrid automata and action languages are formalisms for describing the evolution of dynamic systems. This paper establishes a formal relationship between them. We show how to succinctly represent hybrid automata in an action language…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-07-27 Joohyung Lee , Nikhil Loney , Yunsong Meng

Fuzzing is a widely used technique for detecting software bugs and vulnerabilities. Most popular fuzzers generate new inputs using an evolutionary search to maximize code coverage. Essentially, these fuzzers start with a set of seed inputs,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Dongdong She , Rahul Krishna , Lu Yan , Suman Jana , Baishakhi Ray

Hybrid automata are a natural framework for modeling and analyzing systems which exhibit a mixed discrete continuous behaviour. However, the standard operational semantics defined over such models implicitly assume perfect knowledge of the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-08-27 Alberto Casagrande , Tommaso Dreossi , Carla Piazza

The purpose of this paper is to point to the usefulness of applying a linear mathematical formulation of fuzzy multiple criteria objective decision methods in organising business activities. In this respect fuzzy parameters of linear…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Sonja Petrovic-Lazarevic , Ajith Abraham

Compiler technologies in deep learning and domain-specific hardware acceleration are increasingly adopting extensible compiler frameworks such as Multi-Level Intermediate Representation (MLIR) to facilitate more efficient development. With…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Ben Limpanukorn , Jiyuan Wang , Hong Jin Kang , Eric Zitong Zhou , Miryung Kim

Satisfiability modulo theories (SMT) is a core tool in formal verification. While the SMT-LIB specification language can be used to interact with theorem proving software, a high-level interface allows for faster and easier specifications…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Emiko Soroka , Mykel J. Kochenderfer , Sanjay Lall

Integrating diverse formalisms into modular knowledge representation systems offers increased expressivity, modeling convenience and computational benefits. We introduce concepts of abstract modules and abstract modular systems to study…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-12-24 Yuliya Lierler , Miroslaw Truszczynski

The ability to generate test data is often a necessary prerequisite for automated software testing. For the generated data to be fit for its intended purpose, the data usually has to satisfy various logical constraints. When testing is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Ghanem Soltana , Mehrdad Sabetzadeh , Lionel C. Briand

Optimization Modulo Theories (OMT) is an extension of SMT that allows for finding models that optimize objective functions. In this paper we aim at bridging the gap between Constraint Programming (CP) and OMT, in both directions. First, we…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Francesco Contaldo , Patrick Trentin , Roberto Sebastiani