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Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a well-known problem-solving formalism in computational logic. Nowadays, ASP is used in many real world scenarios thanks to ASP solvers. Standard evaluation of ASP programs suffers from an intrinsic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Giuseppe Mazzotta

Interactive proof assistants are computer programs carefully constructed to check a human-designed proof of a mathematical claim with high confidence in the implementation. However, this only validates truth of a formal claim, which may…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Colin S. Gordon , Sergey Matskevich

Autonomous UI agents powered by AI have tremendous potential to boost human productivity by automating routine tasks such as filing taxes and paying bills. However, a major challenge in unlocking their full potential is security, which is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Ivan Evtimov , Arman Zharmagambetov , Aaron Grattafiori , Chuan Guo , Kamalika Chaudhuri

Software services play a crucial role in daily life, with automated actions determining access to resources and information. Trusting service providers to perform these actions fairly and accurately is essential, yet challenging for users…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Eduardo Brito , Fernando Castillo , Pille Pullonen-Raudvere , Sebastian Werner

Databases in the past have helped businesses maintain and extract insights from their data. Today, it is common for a business to involve multiple independent, distrustful parties. This trend towards decentralization introduces a new and…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Meihui Zhang , Zhongle Xie , Cong Yue , Ziyue Zhong

This demo presents the implementation and usage details of GASSERT, the first tool to automatically improve assertion oracles. Assertion oracles are executable boolean expressions placed inside the program that should pass (return true) for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Valerio Terragni , Gunel Jahangirova , Paolo Tonella , Mauro Pezzè

Standard answer set programming (ASP) targets at solving search problems from the first level of the polynomial time hierarchy (PH). Tackling search problems beyond NP using ASP is less straightforward. The class of disjunctive logic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Bart Bogaerts , Tomi Janhunen , Shahab Tasharrofi

Fault localization is a practical research topic that helps developers identify code locations that might cause bugs in a program. Most existing fault localization techniques are designed for imperative programs (e.g., C and Java) and rely…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Guolong Zheng , ThanhVu Nguyen , Simón Gutiérrez Brida , Germán Regis , Marcelo F. Frias , Nazareno Aguirre , Hamid Bagheri

Formal specification is widely employed in the construction of high-quality software. However, there is often a huge gap between formal specification and actual implementation. While there is already a vast body of work on software testing…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2012-03-29 Zhiqiang Ren , Hongwei Xi

Equipping LLM agents with reusable skills derived from past experience has become a popular and successful approach for tackling complex and long-horizon tasks. However, such lessons are often encoded as textual guidance that remains…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Hongjun Liu , Yifei Ming , Shafiq Joty , Chen Zhao

Epistemic Logic Programs (ELPs) are an extension of Answer Set Programming (ASP) with epistemic operators that allow for a form of meta-reasoning, that is, reasoning over multiple possible worlds. Existing ELP solving approaches generally…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Manuel Bichler , Michael Morak , Stefan Woltran

Higher-order constructs extend the expressiveness of first-order (Constraint) Logic Programming ((C)LP) both syntactically and semantically. At the same time assertions have been in use for some time in (C)LP systems helping programmers…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2014-06-03 Nataliia Stulova , José F. Morales , Manuel V. Hermenegildo

Software for mixed-integer linear programming can return incorrect results for a number of reasons, one being the use of inexact floating-point arithmetic. Even solvers that employ exact arithmetic may suffer from programming or algorithmic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-03 Kevin K. H. Cheung , Ambros Gleixner , Daniel E. Steffy

Automatic code completion helps improve developers' productivity in their programming tasks. A program contains instructions expressed via code statements, which are considered as the basic units of program execution. In this paper, we…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Son Nguyen , Tien N. Nguyen , Yi Li , Shaohua Wang

Programs with floating-point computations are often derived from mathematical models or designed with the semantics of the real numbers in mind. However, for a given input, the computed path with floating-point numbers may differ from the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-08-08 Hélène Collavizza , Claude Michel , Michel Rueher

In this work, we propose Answer-Set Programming (ASP) as a tool for rapid prototyping of dynamic programming algorithms based on tree decompositions. In fact, many such algorithms have been designed, but only a few of them found their way…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-10-09 Bernhard Bliem , Michael Morak , Stefan Woltran

The predominant challenge in weakly supervised semantic parsing is that of spurious programs that evaluate to correct answers for the wrong reasons. Prior work uses elaborate search strategies to mitigate the prevalence of spurious…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Nitish Gupta , Sameer Singh , Matt Gardner

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a popular framework for modeling combinatorial problems. However, ASP cannot easily be used for reasoning about uncertain information. Possibilistic ASP (PASP) is an extension of ASP that combines…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Kim Bauters , Steven Schockaert , Martine De Cock , Dirk Vermeir

Static Application Security Testing (SAST) is a popular quality assurance technique in software engineering. However, integrating SAST tools into industry-level product development and security assessment poses various technical and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Anh Nguyen-Duc , Manh Viet Do , Quan Luong Hong , Kiem Nguyen Khac

Formal Property Verification (FPV), using SystemVerilog Assertions (SVA), is crucial for ensuring the completeness of design with respect to the specification. However, writing SVA is a laborious task and has a steep learning curve. In this…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Mohammad Shahidzadeh , Behnam Ghavami , Steve Wilton , Lesley Shannon