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To identify safety violations, auditors often search over large sets of agent traces. This search is difficult because failures are often rare, complex, and sometimes even adversarially hidden and only detectable when multiple traces are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Adam Stein , Davis Brown , Hamed Hassani , Mayur Naik , Eric Wong

As the modern vehicle becomes more software-defined, it is beginning to take significant effort to avoid serious regression in software design. This is because automotive software architects rely largely upon manual review of code to spot…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Dhasarathy Parthasarathy , Cecilia Ekelin , Anjali Karri , Jiapeng Sun , Panagiotis Moraitis

Real-time control is an essential aspect of safe robot operation in the real world with dynamic objects. We present a framework for the analysis of object-aware controllers, methods for altering a robot's motion to anticipate and avoid…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Caleb Escobedo , Nataliya Nechyporenko , Shreyas Kadekodi , Alessandro Roncone

Complex software systems often suffer from silent failures, i.e., violations of the intended semantics that do not cause explicit errors. A promising approach to detect such errors is to use system-specific runtime checkers that monitor the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Beatriz Souza , Chang Lou , Suman Nath , Michael Pradel

Corrosion presents a major challenge to the longevity and reliability of products across various industries, particularly in the aerospace sector. Corrosion arises from chemical processes occurring on an atomistic scale, which lead to…

Atomicity is a fundamental abstraction in concurrency, specifying that program behavior can be understood by considering specific code blocks executing atomically. However, atomicity invariants are tricky to maintain while also optimizing…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Hünkar Can Tun , Yifan Dong , Andreas Pavlogiannis

Compiler-based Control-Flow Integrity (CFI) offers strong forward-edge protection but remains challenging to deploy in large C/C++ software due to visibility mismatches, type inconsistencies, and unintended behavioral failures. We present…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Sabine Houy , Bruno Kreyssig , Alexandre Bartel

Floating-point programs form the foundation of modern science and engineering, providing the essential computational framework for a wide range of applications, such as safety-critical systems, aerospace engineering, and financial analysis.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Youshuai Tan , Zhanwei Zhang , Jinfu Chen , Zishuo Ding , Jifeng Xuan , Weiyi Shang

In this paper, we present a domain specific process to assist the verification of observer-based fault detection software. Observer-based fault detection systems, like control systems, yield invariant properties of quadratic types. These…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-11-11 Timothy Wang , Alireza Esna Ashari , Romain Jobredeaux , Eric M. Feron

Large language models are increasingly deployed as autonomous agents for multi-step workflows in real-world software environments. However, existing agent benchmarks are limited by trajectory-opaque grading, underspecified safety and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Bowen Ye , Rang Li , Qibin Yang , Yuanxin Liu , Linli Yao , Hanglong Lv , Zhihui Xie , Chenxin An , Lei Li , Lingpeng Kong , Qi Liu , Zhifang Sui , Tong Yang

Road traffic accidents pose a significant global public health concern, leading to injuries, fatalities, and vehicle damage. Approximately 1,3 million people lose their lives daily due to traffic accidents [World Health Organization, 2022].…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Dila Dede , Mehmet Ali Sarsıl , Ata Shaker , Olgu Altıntaş , Onur Ergen

Data contamination is a known threat to the reliability of model evaluation. However, it remains underexplored in code large language models (LLMs), where contamination often goes beyond exact duplication. We present TRACER, a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Yifeng Di , Xuliang Huang , Tianyi Zhang

A major challenge in autonomous flights is unknown disturbances, which can jeopardize safety and lead to collisions, especially in obstacle-rich environments. This paper presents a disturbance-aware motion planning and control framework…

The adoption of high-performance multi-core platforms in avionics and automotive systems introduces significant challenges in ensuring predictable execution, primarily due to shared resource interferences. Many existing approaches study…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Mohamed Amine Khelassi , Felix Suchert , Abderaouf Amalou , Benjamin Lesage , Anika Christmann , Robin Hapka , Jeronimo Castrillon , Mihail Asavoae , Mathieu Jan , Claire Pagetti , Selma Saidi

The architecture of a system captures important design decisions for the system. Over time, changes in a system's implementation may lead to violations of specific design decisions. This problem is common in industry and known as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-09-16 Diego Marmsoler , Ana Petrovska

Architectural Decision Records (ADRs) play a central role in maintaining software architecture quality, yet many decision violations go unnoticed because projects lack both systematic documentation and automated detection mechanisms. Recent…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Ruoyu Su , Alexander Bakhtin , Noman Ahmad , Matteo Esposito , Valentina Lenarduzzi , Davide Taibi

As autonomous coding agents become deeply embedded in software development workflows, their high operational velocity introduces a critical oversight challenge: the accumulating divergence between agentic actions and architectural intent.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Matteo Casserini , Alessandro Facchini , Andrea Ferrario

As software systems grow in scale and complexity, vulnerability management is increasingly strained by high alert volumes, fragmented toolchains, and manual triage processes. We introduce AgenticVM, a multi-agent framework that integrates…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Asrul Arifin , Hussain Ahmad , Yiyao Zhang , Diksha Goel

Correctness alone is insufficient: LLM-generated programs frequently satisfy unit tests while violating contest time or memory budgets. We present SwiftSolve, a complexity-aware multi-agent system for competitive programming that couples…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Adhyayan Veer Singh , Aaron Shen , Brian Law , Ahmed Ismail , Jonas Rohweder , Sean O'Brien , Kevin Zhu

Anomaly detection plays a vital role in the security and safety of cyber-physical control systems, and accurately distinguishing between different anomaly types is crucial for system recovery and mitigation. This study proposes a dual…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-17 Xixing Xue , Dong Shen , Steven X. Ding , Dong Zhao