Reference counting is a widely-used resource management idiom which maintains a count of references to each resource by incrementing the count upon an acquisition, and decrementing...
Michael Emmi, Ranjit Jhala, Eddie Kohler, Rupak Ma...
—Verification is a major issue in circuit and system design. Formal methods like bounded model checking (BMC) can guarantee a high quality of the verification. There are severa...
Alternating-time temporal logic (atl) is one of the most influential logics for reasoning about agents’ abilities. Constructive Strategic Logic (csl) is a variant of atl for im...
This paper presents techniques for analyzing channel contract specifications in Microsoft Research’s Singularity operating system. A channel contract is a state machine that sp...
We present Hintikka games for formulae of the probabilistic temporal logic PCTL and countable labeled Markov chains as models, giving an operational account of the denotational se...
Harald Fecher, Michael Huth, Nir Piterman, Daniel ...