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Most existing pre-trained language models for source code focus on learning the static code text, typically augmented with static code structures (abstract syntax tree, dependency graphs, etc.). However, program semantics will not be fully…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Yangruibo Ding , Ben Steenhoek , Kexin Pei , Gail Kaiser , Wei Le , Baishakhi Ray

Monitoring is a runtime verification technique that allows one to check whether an ongoing computation of a system (partial trace) satisfies a given formula. It does not need a complete model of the system, but it typically requires the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Andrea Brunello , Luca Geatti , Angelo Montanari , Nicola Saccomanno

Industrial Control Systems (ICS) are often built from geographically distributed components and often use programmable logic controllers for localized processes. Since verification of such systems is challenging because of both time…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Ritam Ganguly , Borzoo Bonakdarpour

Trusted execution environments (TEEs) provide an environment for running workloads in the cloud without having to trust cloud service providers, by offering additional hardware-assisted security guarantees. However, main memory encryption…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Jan Wichelmann , Anna Pätschke , Luca Wilke , Thomas Eisenbarth

Remote mobile and embedded devices are used to deliver increasingly impactful services, such as medical rehabilitation and assistive technologies. Secure system logging is beneficial in these scenarios to aid audit and forensic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-12-20 Carlton Shepherd , Raja Naeem Akram , Konstantinos Markantonakis

Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) are critical components of modern secure computing, providing isolated zones in processors to safeguard sensitive data and execute secure operations. Despite their importance, TEEs are increasingly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Aaron Joy , Ben Soh , Zhi Zhang , Sri Parameswaran , Darshana Jayasinghe

As modern software systems grow in complexity and operate in dynamic environments, the need for runtime analysis techniques becomes a more critical part of the verification and validation process. Runtime verification monitors the runtime…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Cristina Stratan , Claudio Mandrioli , Domenico Bianculli

Prior research yielded many techniques to mitigate software compromise for low-end Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Some of them detect software modifications via remote attestation and similar services, while others preventatively ensure…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Sashidhar Jakkamsetti , Youngil Kim , Andrew Searles , Gene Tsudik

Code reuse attack (CRA) is a powerful attack that reuses existing codes to hijack the program control flow. Control flow integrity (CFI) is one of the most popular mechanisms to prevent against CRAs. However, current CFI techniques are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Jiliang Zhang , Wuqiao Chen , Yuqi Niu

Run Time Assurance (RTA) Systems are online verification mechanisms that filter an unverified primary controller output to ensure system safety. The primary control may come from a human operator, an advanced control approach, or an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-28 Kerianne Hobbs , Mark Mote , Matthew Abate , Samuel Coogan , Eric Feron

Distributed tracing has become an essential technique for debugging and troubleshooting modern microservice-based applications, enabling software engineers to detect performance bottlenecks, identify failures, and gain insights into system…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Linh-An Phan , MingXue Wang , Guangyu Wu , Wang Dawei , Chen Liqun , Li Jin

Confidential Computing enhances privacy of data in-use through hardware-based Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) that use attestation to verify their integrity, authenticity, and certain runtime properties, along with those of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Ceren Kocaoğullar , Tina Marjanov , Ivan Petrov , Ben Laurie , Al Cutter , Christoph Kern , Alice Hutchings , Alastair R. Beresford

CFI is a computer security technique that detects runtime attacks by monitoring a program's branching behavior. This work presents a detailed analysis of the security policies enforced by 21 recent hardware-based CFI architectures. The goal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Ruan de Clercq , Ingrid Verbauwhede

This paper provides a systematic exploration of Control Flow Integrity (CFI) and Control Flow Attestation (CFA) mechanisms, examining their differences and relationships. It addresses crucial questions about the goals, assumptions,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Mahmoud Ammar , Adam Caulfield , Ivan De Oliveira Nunes

Reliable mathematical and scientific reasoning remains an open challenge for large vision-language models. Standard final-answer evaluation often masks reasoning errors, allowing silent failures to persist. To address this gap, we introduce…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Shima Imani , Seungwhan Moon , Lambert Mathias , Lu Zhang , Babak Damavandi

Enterprise software supply chains are increasingly vulnerable to infrastructure attacks, resulting in financial and reputational damage. Ensuring the integrity and provenance of software artifacts remains a significant challenge, where…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Fernando Castillo , Eduardo Brito , Pille Pullonen-Raudvere , Sebastian Werner , Stefan Tai

Developing and maintaining CLP programs requires visualization and explanation tools. However, existing tools are built in an ad hoc way. Therefore porting tools from one platform to another is very difficult. We have shown in previous work…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ludovic Langevine , Pierre Deransart , Mireille Ducasse , Erwan Jahier

Modern society is increasingly surrounded by, and accustomed to, a wide range of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), Internet-of-Things (IoT), and smart devices. They often perform safety-critical functions, e.g., personal medical devices,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Ivan De Oliveira Nunes , Karim Eldefrawy , Norrathep Rattanavipanon , Gene Tsudik

Loop under-approximation is a technique that enriches C programs with additional branches that represent the effect of a (limited) range of loop iterations. While this technique can speed up the detection of bugs significantly, it…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-22 Daniel Kroening , Matt Lewis , Georg Weissenbacher

We aim to provide trusted time measurement mechanisms to applications and cloud infrastructure deployed in environments that could harbor potential adversaries, including the hardware infrastructure provider. Despite Trusted Execution…

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