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Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) consist of software interacting with the physical world, such as robots, vehicles, and industrial processes. CPS are frequently responsible for the safety of lives, property, or the environment, and so software…

Contracts and contract monitoring are a powerful mechanism for specifying properties and guaranteeing them at run time. However, run time monitoring of contracts imposes a significant overhead. The execution time is impacted by the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-03-31 Matthias Keil , Peter Thiemann

In this paper, we provide a new scheme for approximating the weakly efficient solution set for a class of vector optimization problems with rational objectives over a feasible set defined by finitely many polynomial inequalities. More…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-26 Feng Guo , Liguo Jiao

Refinement types decorate types with assertions that enable automatic verification. Like assertions, refinements are limited to binders that are in scope, and hence, cannot express higher-order specifications. Ghost variables circumvent…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Anish Tondwalkar , Matthew Kolosick , Ranjit Jhala

A growing trend in program analysis is to encode verification conditions within the language of the input program. This simplifies the design of analysis tools by utilizing off-the-shelf verifiers, but makes communication with the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Scott Wesley , Maria Christakis , Jorge A. Navas , Richard Trefler , Valentin Wüstholz , Arie Gurfinkel

This paper presents a wp-style calculus for obtaining bounds on the expected run-time of probabilistic programs. Its application includes determining the (possibly infinite) expected termination time of a probabilistic program and proving…

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Weakly-sticky (WS) Datalog+/- is an expressive member of the family of Datalog+/- programs that is based on the syntactic notions of stickiness and weak-acyclicity. Query answering over the WS programs has been investigated, but there is…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-07-12 Mostafa Milani , Leopoldo Bertossi

Users of program analyses expect that results change predictably in response to changes in their programs, but many analyses fail to provide such robustness. This paper introduces a theoretical framework that provides a unified language to…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Zachary Kincaid , Shaowei Zhu

We present a weakest-precondition-style calculus for reasoning about the expected values (pre-expectations) of \emph{mixed-sign unbounded} random variables after execution of a probabilistic program. The semantics of a while-loop is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-04-19 Benjamin Lucien Kaminski , Joost-Pieter Katoen

In this paper, we are concerned with a worst-case complexity analysis of a-posteriori algorithms for unconstrained multiobjective optimization. Specifically, we propose an algorithmic framework that generates sets of points by means of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-16 Andrea Cristofari , Marianna De Santis , Stefano Lucidi , Giampaolo Liuzzi

Verifying software correctness has always been an important and complicated task. Recently, formal proofs of critical properties of algorithms and even implementations are becoming practical. Currently, the most powerful automated proof…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Michael Raskin , Christoph Welzel

A class of valued constraint satisfaction problems (VCSPs) is characterised by a valued constraint language, a fixed set of cost functions on a finite domain. An instance of the problem is specified by a sum of cost functions from the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-11-24 Johan Thapper , Stanislav Zivny

Transformers have become the foundational architecture for a broad spectrum of sequence modeling applications, underpinning state-of-the-art systems in natural language processing, vision, and beyond. However, their theoretical limitations…

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Sparse principal component analysis addresses the problem of finding a linear combination of the variables in a given data set with a sparse coefficients vector that maximizes the variability of the data. This model enhances the ability to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-09 Amir Beck , Yakov Vaisbourd

In the paper the problem of verification of functional programs (FPs) over strings is considered, where specifications of properties of FPs are defined by other FPs, and a FP S1 meets a specification defined by another FP S2 iff a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-04-15 Andrew M. Mironov

Qualification has been recently introduced as a generalization of uncertainty in the field of Logic Programming. In this report we investigate a more expressive language for First-Order Functional Logic Programming with Constraints and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2011-01-12 Rafael Caballero , Mario Rodríguez-Artalejo , Carlos A. Romero-Díaz

Software model checking, as an undecidable problem, has three possible outcomes: (1) the program satisfies the specification, (2) the program does not satisfy the specification, and (3) the model checker fails. The third outcome usually…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Dirk Beyer , Thomas A. Henzinger , M. Erkan Keremoglu , Philipp Wendler

Many Program Verification and Synthesis problems of interest can be modeled directly using Horn clauses and many recent advances in the CLP and CAV communities have centered around efficiently solving problems presented as Horn clauses. The…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Temesghen Kahsai , German Vidal

Weak memory models provide a complex, system-centric semantics for concurrent programs, while transactional memory (TM) provides a simpler, programmer-centric semantics. Both have been studied in detail, but their combined semantics is not…

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