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Modern software projects include automated tests written to check the programs' functionality. The set of functions invoked by a test is called the trace of the test, and the action of obtaining a trace is called tracing. There are many…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Eyal Hadad , Roni Stern

Cyclic debugging requires repeatable executions. As non-deterministic or real-time systems typically do not have the potential to provide this, special methods are required. One such method is replay, a process that requires monitoring of a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2009-09-29 Joel Huselius , Henrik Thane , Daniel Sundmark

As most parallel and distributed programs are internally non-deterministic -- consecutive runs with the same input might result in a different program flow -- vanilla cyclic debugging techniques as such are useless. In order to use cyclic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Michiel Ronsse , Koen De Bosschere , Jacques Chassin de Kergommeaux

We present an expressive logic over trace formulas, based on binary state predicates, chop, and least fixed-points, for precise specification of programs with recursive procedures. Both, programs and trace formulas, are equipped with a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Dilian Gurov , Reiner Hähnle

We study the problem of scheduling jobs on fault-prone machines communicating via a shared channel, also known as multiple-access channel. We have $n$ arbitrary length jobs to be scheduled on $m$ identical machines, $f$ of which are prone…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Marek Klonowski , Dariusz R. Kowalski , Jarosław Mirek , Prudence W. H. Wong

Reactive software calls for instrumentation methods that uphold the reactive attributes of systems. Runtime verification imposes another demand on the instrumentation, namely that the trace event sequences it reports to monitors are sound…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Luca Aceto , Duncan Paul Attard , Adrian Francalanza , Anna Ingólfsdóttir

Many real-world applications require making multiple predictions from the same text. Fine-tuning a large pre-trained language model for each downstream task causes computational burdens in the inference time due to several times of forward…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Kuan-Hao Huang , Liang Tan , Rui Hou , Sinong Wang , Amjad Almahairi , Ruty Rinott

Correctness of concurrent objects is defined in terms of safety properties such as linearizability, sequential consistency, and quiescent consistency, and progress properties such as wait-, lock-, and obstruction-freedom. These properties,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-03-07 Brijesh Dongol , Lindsay Groves

Understanding the run-time behavior of concurrent programs is a challenging task. A popular approach is to establish a happens- before relation via vector clocks. Thus, we can identify bugs and per- formance bottlenecks, for example, by…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Martin Sulzmann , Kai Stadtmueller

Reconfigurable interaction induces another dimension of nondeterminism in concurrent systems which makes it hard to reason about the different choices of the system from a global perspective. Namely, (1) choices that correspond to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Yehia Abd Alrahman , Mauricio Martel , Nir Piterman

Concurrent programs are difficult to test due to their inherent non-determinism. To address this problem, testing often requires the exploration of thread schedules of a program; this can be time-consuming when applied to real-world…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-04-11 Tingting Yu , Wei Wen , Xue Han , Jane Hayes

MIDI performances are generally expedient in performance research and music information retrieval, and even more so if they can be connected to a score. This connection is usually established by means of alignment, linking either notes or…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Silvan Peter , Patricia Hu , Gerhard Widmer

Previous work in the area of tracing CLP(FD) programs mainly focuses on providing information about control of execution and domain modification. In this paper, we present a trace structure that provides information about additional…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Magnus Agren , Tamas Szeredi , Nicolas Beldiceanu , Mats Carlsson

Wi-Fi link is unpredictable and it has never been easy to measure it perfectly; there is always bound to be some bias. As wireless becomes the medium of choice, it is useful to capture Wi-Fi traces in order to evaluate, tune, and adapt the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Mohammad Imran Syed , Renata Teixeira , Sara Ayoubi , Giulio Grassi

Over the last years, state-tracking tasks, particularly permutation composition, have become a testbed to understand the limits of sequence models architectures like Transformers and RNNs (linear and non-linear). However, these are often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Julien Siems , Riccardo Grazzi , Kirill Kalinin , Hitesh Ballani , Babak Rahmani

We consider the problem of data race prediction where the program's behavior is represented by a trace. A trace is a sequence of program events recorded during the execution of the program. We employ the schedulable happens-before relation…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Martin Sulzmann , Kai Stadtmüller

We describe a denotational semantics for an abstract effect system for a higher-order, shared-variable concurrent programming language. We prove the soundness of a number of general effect-based program equivalences, including a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-10-12 Nick Benton , Martin Hofmann , Vivek Nigam

In this paper, a new control scheme, called as additive-decomposition-based tracking control, is proposed to solve the output feedback tracking problem for a class of systems with measurable nonlinearities and unknown disturbances. By the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-03-10 Quan Quan , Kai-Yuan Cai , Hai Lin

We study the termination problem for nondeterministic recursive probabilistic programs. First, we show that a ranking-supermartingales-based approach is both sound and complete for bounded terminiation (i.e., bounded expected termination…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-01-12 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Hongfei Fu

Programmers often use an iterative process of hypothesis generation ("perhaps this function is called twice?") and hypothesis testing ("let's count how many times this breakpoint fires") to understand the behavior of unfamiliar or…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Shardul Chiplunkar , Clément Pit-Claudel