Wisconsin Program-Slicing Project

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Disclaimer
Research Summary
Recent Items of Note (Last updated: May 11, 2013)
Personnel
Categorized Index to Project Publications
Project Bibliography
Software

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Research Summary

The goal of this project is to create enhanced tools to support the development of complex software systems. The objective is to create tools that provide powerful language-specific program-manipulation operations. In particular, the project has explored how program slicing can serve as the basis for such program-manipulation operations.

The slice of a program with respect to a set of program elements S is a projection of the program that includes only program elements that might affect (either directly or transitively) the values of the variables used at members of S. Slicing allows one to find semantically meaningful decompositions of programs, where the decompositions consist of elements that are not textually contiguous.

Program slicing is a fundamental operation that can aid in solving many software-engineering problems. For instance, it has applications to program understanding, maintenance, debugging, testing, differencing, specialization, reuse, and merging.

The activities of the project have been devoted to:

improving the underlying technology for program slicing (and related operations),
implementing program slicers,
developing methods for using slicing in software-engineering tools, and
building slicing-based program-manipulation tools.

More recently, we found some unexpected connections between interprocedural dataflow analysis and our previous work on interprocedural program slicing. In particular, we have shown how a large class of interprocedural dataflow-analysis problems can be solved by transforming them into a special kind of graph-reachability problem. This graph-reachability problem can be solved precisely in polynomial time by the algorithm originally developed for interprocedural slicing.

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Recent Items of Note

Recent Publications

``PostHat and all that: Automating abstract interpretation''
``Abstract domains of affine relations''
``An abstract domain for bit-vector inequalities''
``Software-architecture recovery from machine code''
``Declarative, temporal, and practical programming with capabilities''
``Specialization slicing''
``TSL: A system for generating abstract interpreters and its application to machine-code analysis''
``Bilateral algorithms for symbolic abstraction''
``A generalization of Staalmarck's method''
``Secure programming via visibly pushdown safety games''
``Efficient runtime policy enforcement using counterexample-guided abstraction refinement''
``A method for symbolic computation of abstract operations''
``OpenNWA: A nested-word-automaton library''
``Executable slicing via procedure specialization''
``Verifying concurrent programs via bounded context-switching and induction''
``Abstract domains of affine relations''
``Checking compatibility of a producer and a consumer''
``Transformer Specification Language: A system for generating analyzers and its applications'' (Lim thesis)
``Semantics of program representation graphs''
``ConSeq: Detecting concurrency bugs through sequential errors''

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Miscellaneous

The paper

Horwitz, S., Reps, T., and Binkley, D., Interprocedural slicing using dependence graphs. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 88 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, (Atlanta, GA, June 22-24, 1988), ACM SIGPLAN Notices 23, 7 (July 1988), pp. 35-46. [abstract]

was selected for inclusion in a special SIGPLAN collection of the 50 most influential papers from the SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation from 1979 to 1999:

Horwitz, S., Reps, T., and Binkley, D., Interprocedural slicing using dependence graphs. 20 Years of the ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (1979 - 1999): A Selection, K.S. McKinley, ed., ACM SIGPLAN Notices 39, 4 (April 2004), 232-243.

A retrospective on the paper was published as

Horwitz, S., Reps, T., and Binkley, D., Retrospective: Interprocedural slicing using dependence graphs. 20 Years of the ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (1979 - 1999): A Selection, K.S. McKinley, ed., ACM SIGPLAN Notices 39, 4 (April 2004), 229-231. [retrospective (PS); retrospective (PDF)]

An extended version of the PLDI 88 paper later appeared as the following journal paper:

Horwitz, S., Reps, T., and Binkley, D., Interprocedural slicing using dependence graphs. ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems 12, 1 (January 1990), 26-60. [abstract; paper]

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Availability of Program-Slicing Tools

The Wisconsin Program-Slicing Tool

The The Wisconsin Program-Slicing Tool is a software system that supports operations on C programs, including backward slicing, forward slicing, and chopping [TOPLAS90, FSE94, FSE95b], which can help the user gain an understanding of what a program does and how it works. The Wisconsin Program-Slicing Tool consists of a package for building and manipulating control-flow graphs and program dependence graphs, as well as a front-end that parses C programs and translates them to the internal representations used for slicing.

Although the Wisconsin Program-Slicing Tool was distributed from 1996-2000 for not-for-profit research purposes under license from the University of Wisconsin, it is no longer being distributed. However, there is a commercial tool available, named CodeSurfer, that is derived from the Wisconsin implementation and is available from GrammaTech, Inc. GrammaTech has improved on the Wisconsin implementation considerably (both in terms of speed and space efficiency). GrammaTech also provides CodeSurfer to academic researchers on very favorable terms.

CodeSurfer

The Wisconsin program-slicing technology is now available in a commercial product, the CodeSurfer^{^tm} tool available from GrammaTech, Inc.

CodeSurfer builds a dependence-graph program representation and provides a GUI for exploring this web. The dependence graph includes forward and backward links between each assignment statement and possible uses of the values stored by that assignment. Pointer analysis is used so that indirect loads and stores through pointers are taken into account, as well as indirect function calls. Dataflow analysis is used so that links between unrelated assignments and uses are excluded. Operations that highlight forward and backward slices show the impact of a given statement on the rest of the program (forward slicing), and the impact of the rest of a program on a given statement (backward slicing) [TOPLAS90, FSE94]. Operations that highlight paths between nodes in the dependence graph (chops) show ways in which the program points are interdependent (or independent) [FSE95b]. CodeSurfer's scripting language, which provides access to the dependence-graph program representation and the Tk widget set, is used for extensibility and for batch applications.

Full information about CodeSurfer is available here, where you can find

full documentation,
whitepapers,
pricing information,
information about use by academic researchers.

You should be aware that the most important current limitations of CodeSurfer are as follows:

Language: C (full support), C++ (alpha support)
Program length: < 200K SLOC

CodeSurfer is currently available for Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Linux, and Solaris (2.5.1 or later).

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Personnel

Faculty

Current Post-Docoral Associates, Staff, and Visitors

Rich Joiner
Junghee Lim, Research Associate (CiteseerX, Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic Search, DB&LP )

Students

Former Students, Post-Doctoral Associates, Staff, and Visitors

Tycho Andersen, MS 2011
Min Thu Aung, MS 2012
Gogul Balakrishnan (NEC Laboratories America, Inc., Princeton, NJ), Ph.D. 2007
Thomas Ball (Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA), Ph.D. 1993
Victor Barger
Samuel Bates
David Binkley (Loyola College, Baltimore, MD), Ph.D. 1991
Thomas Bricker
Amanda Burton, MS 2010
Jiazhen Cai (NYU), Visitor 1990-91
Manuvir Das (Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA), Ph.D. 1998
Matt Elder, MS
Ben Farley, MS 2012
Denis Gopan (GrammaTech, Inc.), Ph.D. 2007
Beck Hasti (Univ. of Wisconsin), MS 1995
Neil Immerman (Univ. of Massachusetts), Visitor 2004-05
Bertrand Jeannet (IRISA), Visitor Mar. - June, 2003
Nick Kidd (Purdue University), Ph.D. 2009
Raghavan Komondoor (Indian Institute of Science [IISc], Bangalore, India), Ph.D. 2003
Akash Lal (Microsoft Research India, Bangalore, India), Ph.D. 2009
Junghee Lim (University of Wisconsin), Ph.D. 2011
Alexey Loginov (GrammaTech, Inc.), Ph.D. 2006
David Melski (GrammaTech, Inc.), Ph.D. 2002
Anne Mulhern
Lena Olson
Robert Paige (NYU), Visitor 1990-91
Phil Pfeiffer (East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN), Ph.D. 1991
Prathmesh Prabhu, MS 2012
Jan Prins (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC), Visitor 1986-87
G. Ramalingam (Microsoft Research India, Bangalore, India), Ph.D. 1993
Genevive Rosay (retired; formerly GrammaTech, Inc.)
Mooly Sagiv (Tel-Aviv University, Israel), Visitor 1994-95
Stefan Schwoon (Technische Universitaet Muenchen), Visitor Feb. - Mar., 2003
Rathijit Sen
Mike Siff (Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY), Ph.D. 1998
Zhichen Xu (Yahoo! Inc.), Ph.D. 2000
Wuu Yang (National Chiao-Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ph.D. 1990
Suan Hsi Yong (GrammaTech, Inc.), Ph.D. 2004

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Categorized Index to Project Publications

Program Slicing, Differencing, Merging, etc.

Overview

``Program analysis via graph reachability'', IST
(also ``Program analysis via graph reachability'', TR-1386, and
``Program analysis via graph reachability'', ILPS 97)
``The use of program dependence graphs in software engineering''

The Wisconsin Program-Slicing Tool

CodeSurfer System

Short description of the CodeSurfer system
CodeSurfer^{^tm} web page

Slicing

``Specialization slicing''
``Executable slicing via procedure specialization''
``Better slicing of programs with jumps and switches''
``Program specialization via program slicing''
``Speeding up slicing''
``Slicing programs with arbitrary control flow''
``The use of control-flow and control dependence in software tools''
``Interprocedural slicing of computer programs using dependence graphs''
``Multi-procedure program integration''
``Efficient comparison of program slices''
``Interprocedural slicing using dependence graphs'', TOPLAS 1990
(also ``Interprocedural slicing using dependence graphs'', PLDI 1988)

Chopping

``Precise interprocedural chopping''

Differencing

``Identifying syntactic differences between two programs''
``Identifying semantic differences in programs with procedures''
``A new algorithm for semantics-based program integration''
``Identifying the semantic and textual differences between two versions of a program''

Merging

``Program integration for languages with procedure calls''
``A program integration algorithm that accommodates semantics-preserving transformations'', TOSEM 1992
(also ``A program integration algorithm that accommodates semantics-preserving transformations'', SIGSOFT 1990)
``Multi-procedure program integration''
``A new algorithm for semantics-based program integration''
``Illustrating interference in interfering versions of programs''
``Integrating non-interfering versions of programs'', TOPLAS 1989
(also ``Integrating non-interfering versions of programs'', POPL 1988,
``Semantics-based program integration'', and
``Support for integrating program variants in an environment for programming in the large'')

Algebra of slices (and applications to program merging)

``New programs from old''
``Algebraic properties of program integration'', SCP 1991
(also ``Algebraic properties of program integration'', ESOP 1990)
``A theory of program modifications''
``Modification algebras''

Semantics and slicing

``Semantics of program representation graphs''
(also ``Semantics of program representation graphs'', TR-900)
``On the adequacy of dependence-based representations for programs with heaps''
``The semantics of program slicing and program integration''
``The multi-procedure equivalence theorem''
``On the adequacy of program dependence graphs for representing programs''

Other applications of slicing

``Using slicing to identify duplication in source code.''
``Program slicing of hardware description languages''
``Program slicing for design automation''
``Partial evaluation using dependence graphs''
``Program specialization via program slicing''
``Semantic foundations of binding-time analysis for imperative programs''
``Incremental program testing using program dependence graphs''

Implemented integration system (for a small Pascal subset)

``The Wisconsin Program-Integration System''
``The Wisconsin Program-Integration System Reference Manual: Release 2.0''
``Demonstration of a prototype tool for program integration''

Miscellaneous

``Tool support for improving test coverage''
``Undecidability of context-sensitive data-dependence analysis''
``Constructing control flow from control dependence''
``Correctness of an algorithm for reconstituting a program from a dependence graph''

Ph.D. Dissertations

``Partial evaluation using dependence graphs''
``The use of control-flow and control dependence in software tools''
``Multi-procedure program integration''
``A new algorithm for semantics-based program integration''
``Dependence-based representations for programs with reference variables''

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Interprocedural Dataflow Analysis

Demand IDFA via bottom-up logic programming and the magic-sets transformation

``Demand interprocedural program analysis using logic databases''
(also ``Solving demand versions of interprocedural analysis problems'')

Exhaustive and Demand IDFA via graph reachability

``Program analysis via graph reachability'', IST
(also ``Program analysis via graph reachability'', TR-1386, and
``Program analysis via graph reachability'', ILPS 97)
``Demand interprocedural dataflow analysis'', TR-1283
(also ``Demand interprocedural dataflow analysis'', FSE 1995)
``Precise interprocedural dataflow analysis via graph reachability''
``Interprocedural dataflow analysis via graph reachability''

IDFA using more than graph reachability

``Improving pushdown system model checking''
``Extended weighted pushdown systems''
``Weighted pushdown systems and their application to interprocedural dataflow analysis'', SCP
(also ``Weighted pushdown systems and their application to interprocedural dataflow analysis'', SAS 2003)
``Precise interprocedural dataflow analysis with applications to constant propagation'', TCS 1996
(also ``Precise interprocedural dataflow analysis with applications to constant propagation'', FASE 1995)

PTIME completeness of IDFA

``On the sequential nature of interprocedural program-analysis problems''

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Alias Analysis, Pointer Analysis, and Shape Analysis

``Statically inferring complex heap, array, and numeric invariants''
``Finite differencing of logical formulas for static analysis'' (also ``Finite differencing of logical formulas for static analysis'', ESOP 2003)
``A relational approach to interprocedural shape analysis'' (also ``A relational approach to interprocedural shape analysis'', SAS 2004)
``Refinement-based verification for possibly-cyclic lists''
``Refinement-based program verification via three-valued-logic analysis''
``Automated verification of the Deutsch-Schorr-Waite tree-traversal algorithm''
``Recency-abstraction for heap-allocated storage''
``Automatic verification of strongly dynamic software systems''
``A relational abstraction for functions''
``Simulating reachability using first-order logic with applications to verification of linked data structures''
``Abstraction refinement via inductive learning''
``On the utility of canonical abstraction''
``Numeric analysis of array operations''
``A semantics for procedure local heaps and its abstractions''
``Static program analysis via 3-valued logic''
``Verification via structure simulation''
``Symbolically computing most-precise abstract operations for shape analysis''
``Verifying temporal heap properties specified via evolution logic''
``Parametric shape analysis via 3-valued logic''
``On the non-approximability of points-to analysis''
``Putting static analysis to work for verification: A case study''
``Shape analysis'', CC 2000
``Pointer analysis for programs with structures and casting''
``A decidable logic for describing linked data structures''
``Program analysis via graph reachability'', IST
(also ``Program analysis via graph reachability'', TR-1386, and
``Program analysis via graph reachability'', ILPS 97)
``Fast and accurate flow-insensitive points-to analysis''
``Program specialization via program slicing''
``Solving shape-analysis problems in languages with destructive updating'', TOPLAS
(also ``Solving shape-analysis problems in languages with destructive updating'', POPL 1996, and
``Solving shape-analysis problems in languages with destructive updating'', TR-1276)
``Shape analysis as a generalized path problem''
``On the adequacy of dependence-based representations for programs with heaps''
``Dependence-based representations for programs with reference variables''
``Dependence analysis for pointer variables''

Ph.D. Dissertations

``Refinement-based program verification via three-valued-logic analysis''
``Dependence-based representations for programs with reference variables''

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Analysis of Multi-Threaded Programs

``Verifying concurrent programs via bounded context-switching and induction''
``ConSeq: Detecting concurrency bugs through sequential errors''
``DIFC programs by automatic instrumentation''
``A decision procedure for detecting atomicity violations for communicating processes with locks'', STTT 11
(also ``A decision procedure for detecting atomicity violations for communicating processes with locks'', SPIN 09)
``Verifying information flow over unbounded processes''
``Reducing concurrent analysis under a context bound to sequential analysis'', FMSD 09
(also ``Reducing concurrent analysis under a context bound to sequential analysis'', CAV 08)
``Finding concurrency-related bugs using random isolation''
``Interprocedural analysis of concurrent programs under a context bound''
``Verifying concurrent message-passing C programs with recursive calls''
``Verifying temporal heap properties specified via evolution logic''

Ph.D. Dissertations

``Static verification of data-consistency properties''
``Interprocedural analysis and the verification of concurrent programs''

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Other Program-Analysis Problems

``PostHat and all that: Automating abstract interpretation''
``Abstract domains of affine relations''
``An abstract domain for bit-vector inequalities''
``Software-architecture recovery from machine code''
``Bilateral algorithms for symbolic abstraction''
``A generalization of Staalmarck's method''
``A method for symbolic computation of abstract operations''
``OpenNWA: A nested-word-automaton library''
``Symbolic analysis via semantic reinterpretation'' (Journal version)
``Extracting output formats from executables''
``Lookahead widening''
``Numeric domains with summarized dimensions''
``Symbolic implementation of the best transformer''
``The interprocedural express-lane transformation''
``Reducing the Overhead of Dynamic Analysis, RV'02
``Interprocedural path profiling and the interprocedural express-lane transformation'', Melski thesis
``Typestate checking of machine code''
``Safety-checking of machine code'', Xu thesis
``Safety checking of machine code'', PLDI 00
``Putting static analysis to work for verification: A case study''
``Physical type checking for C'', PASTE 99
(also ``Physical type checking for C'', BL0113590-990302-04)
``Coping with type casts in C'', FSE 99
(also ``Coping with type casts in C'', BL0113590-990202-03)
``Interprocedural path profiling'', CC 99
(also ``Interprocedural path profiling'', TR-1382)
``Techniques for software renovation''
``Program analysis via graph reachability'', IST
(also ``Program analysis via graph reachability'', TR-1386, and
``Program analysis via graph reachability'', ILPS 97)
``Interconvertibility of a class of set constraints and context-free language reachability'', TCS
(also ``Interconvertibility of set constraints and context-free language reachability'', PEPM 97)
``Identifying modules via concept analysis'', TSE
(also ``Identifying modules via concept analysis'', ICSM 97)
``The use of program profiling for software maintenance with applications to the Year 2000 Problem''
(also ``The use of program profiling in software testing'')
``Method of troubleshooting data-dependent anomalies in computer programs''
``BTA termination using CFL-reachability''
``Program generalization for software reuse: From C to C++''
``Semantic foundations of binding-time analysis for imperative programs''

Ph.D. Dissertations

``Safety-checking of machine code''
``Techniques for software renovation''
``Partial evaluation using dependence graphs''

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Path Problems

Context-Free-Language Reachability

``Model checking of unrestricted hierarchical state machines''
``Program analysis via graph reachability'', IST
(also ``Program analysis via graph reachability'', TR-1386, and
``Program analysis via graph reachability'', ILPS 97)
``Interconvertibility of a class of set constraints and context-free language reachability'', TCS
(also ``Interconvertibility of set constraints and context-free language reachability'', PEPM 97)
``Undecidability of context-sensitive data-dependence analysis''
``Speeding up slicing''
``Interprocedural slicing of computer programs using dependence graphs''
``Interprocedural slicing using dependence graphs'', TOPLAS 1990
(also ``Interprocedural slicing using dependence graphs'', PLDI 1988)
``Demand interprocedural dataflow analysis'', TR-1283
(also ``Demand interprocedural dataflow analysis'', FSE 1995)
``Precise interprocedural dataflow analysis via graph reachability''
``Interprocedural dataflow analysis via graph reachability''
``On the sequential nature of interprocedural program-analysis problems''
``Shape analysis as a generalized path problem''

Other Path Problems

``Reducing the dependence of SPKI/SDSI on PKI''
``Improving pushdown system model checking''
``Weighted pushdown systems and trust-management systems''
``Verifying concurrent message-passing C programs with recursive calls''
``Extended weighted pushdown systems''
``Weighted pushdown systems and their application to interprocedural dataflow analysis'', SCP
(also ``Weighted pushdown systems and their application to interprocedural dataflow analysis'', SAS 2003)
``The interprocedural express-lane transformation''
``On generalized authorization problems''
``An incremental algorithm for a generalization of the shortest-path problem''
``On the computational complexity of dynamic graph problems''
``An incremental algorithm for maintaining the dominator tree of a reducible flowgraph''
``Precise interprocedural dataflow analysis with applications to constant propagation'', TCS 1996
(also ``Precise interprocedural dataflow analysis with applications to constant propagation'', FASE 1995)
``Interprocedural path profiling'', CC 99
(also ``Interprocedural path profiling'', TR-1382)

Ph.D. Dissertations

``Interprocedural path profiling and the interprocedural express-lane transformation''
``Bounded Incremental Computation''
``Multi-procedure program integration''

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Model Checking

``A decision procedure for detecting atomicity violations for communicating processes with locks'' (Journal version)
``Reducing concurrent analysis under a context bound to sequential analysis'' (Journal version)
``Finding concurrency-related bugs using random isolation''
``Reducing concurrent analysis under a context bound to sequential analysis''
``Interprocedural analysis of concurrent programs under a context bound''
``Advanced querying for property checking''
``Abstract error projection''
``Improving pushdown system model checking''
``Weighted pushdown systems and trust-management systems''
``Verifying concurrent message-passing C programs with recursive calls''
``Model checking x86 executables with CodeSurfer/x86 and WPDS++''
``Extended weighted pushdown systems''
``Weighted pushdown systems and their application to interprocedural dataflow analysis''
``Automatic discovery of API-level exploits''
``Model checking SPKI/SDSI''
``Verifying temporal heap properties specified via evolution logic''
``On generalized authorization problems''
``Analysis of SPKI/SDSI certificates using model checking''
``Model checking of unrestricted hierarchical state machines''
``LTL model checking for systems with unbounded number of dynamically created threads and objects''

Ph.D. Dissertations

``Static verification of data-consistency properties''
``Interprocedural analysis and the verification of concurrent programs''

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Computer Security

``Declarative, temporal, and practical programming with capabilities''
``TSL: A system for generating abstract interpreters and its application to machine-code analysis''
``DIFC programs by automatic instrumentation''
``DIVINE: DIscovering Variables IN Executables''
``Reducing the dependence of SPKI/SDSI on PKI''
``Weighted pushdown systems and trust-management systems''
``Intermediate-representation recovery from low-level code''
``A next-generation platform for analyzing executables''
``WYSINWYX: What You See Is Not What You eXecute''
``Model checking x86 executables with CodeSurfer/x86 and WPDS++''
``CodeSurfer/x86 -- A platform for analyzing x86 executables''
``Automatic discovery of API-level exploits''
``Analyzing memory accesses in x86 executables''
``On generalized authorization problems''
``Model checking SPKI/SDSI''
``Typestate checking of machine code''
``Safety checking of machine code'', PLDI 00

Ph.D. Dissertations

``Transformer Specification Language: A system for generating analyzers and its applications'' (Lim thesis)
``WYSINWYX: What You See Is Not What You eXecute''
``Safety-checking of machine code'', Xu thesis

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Code Instrumentation

``The interprocedural express-lane transformation''
``Interprocedural path profiling and the interprocedural express-lane transformation'', Melski thesis
``Debugging via run-time type checking''
``Interprocedural path profiling'', CC 99
(also ``Interprocedural path profiling'', TR-1382)
New technology for Year 2000 Problem tools
``The use of program profiling for software maintenance with applications to the Year 2000 Problem''
(also ``The use of program profiling in software testing'')

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Computational Differentiation and Computational Divided Differencing

``Algorithmic differencing''
``Computational divided differencing and divided-difference arithmetics''
``Computational divided differencing and divided-difference arithmetics''

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Miscellaneous

```Maximal-munch' tokenization in linear time''

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Project Bibliography

Books

Datta, A., Jha, S., Li, N., Melski, D., and Reps, T., Analysis Techniques for Information Security. Synthesis Lectures on Information Security, Privacy, and Trust, Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2010. [Access via digital object identifier.]
Reps, T. and Teitelbaum, T., The Synthesizer Generator: A System for Constructing Language-Based Editors. Springer-Verlag, New York, NY, 1988. [abstract; Amazon.com; Access via SpringerLink.]
Reps, T. and Teitelbaum, T., The Synthesizer Generator Reference Manual: Third Edition. Springer-Verlag, New York, NY, 1988. [Access via SpringerLink.]
Chinese reprint published by the World Publishing Corporation, Beijing, China, 1991.
Reps, T., Generating Language-Based Environments. The M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, MA, 1984. (Awarded the 1983 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award.) [abstract; Amazon.com; Access via IEEEXplore.]

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Journal Publications

Thakur, A., Lal, A., Lim, J., and Reps, T., PostHat and all that: Automating abstract interpretation. To appear in Electr. Notes Theor. Comput. Sci., 2013. [abstract; PDF.]
Lim, J. and Reps. T., TSL: A system for generating abstract interpreters and its application to machine-code analysis. In ACM Trans. on Program. Lang. and Syst. 35, 1 (April 2013). [abstract; PDF.]
© ACM, (2013). This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version will be published in ACM Trans. on Prog. Lang. and Systems, 35, 1 (April 2013), http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2450136.2450139.
Zhang, W., Sun, C., Lim, J., Lu, S., and Reps, T., ConMem: Detecting crash-triggering concurrency bugs through an effect-oriented approach. In ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology 22, 2 (2013). [abstract; Link via ACM Digital Library]
Kidd, N., Reps, T., Dolby, J., and Vaziri, M., Finding concurrency-related bugs using random isolation. In Int. Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer 13, 6 (2011), 495-518. [abstract; PDF; DOI; (c) Springer-Verlag]
Kidd, N., Lammich, P., Touilli, T., and Reps, T., A decision procedure for detecting atomicity violations for communicating processes with locks. In Int. Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer 13, 1 (2011), 37-60. [abstract; PDF; DOI; (c) Springer-Verlag]
Lim, J., Lal, A., and Reps, T., Symbolic analysis via semantic reinterpretation. In Int. Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer 13, 1 (2011), 61-87. [abstract; PDF; DOI; (c) Springer-Verlag]
Elder, M., Gopan, D., and Reps, T., View-augmented abstractions. In Electr. Notes Theor. Comput. Sci. 267, 1 (2010), 43-57. [abstract; PDF.]
Reps, T., Sagiv, M., and Loginov, A., Finite differencing of logical formulas for static analysis. In ACM Trans. on Program. Lang. and Syst. 32, 6 (July 2010). [abstract; PDF.]
© ACM, (2010). This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version will be published in ACM Trans. on Prog. Lang. and Systems, 32, 6 (July 2010), http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1749608.1749613.
Balakrishnan, G. and Reps, T., WYSINWYX: What You See Is Not What You eXecute. In ACM Trans. on Program. Lang. and Syst. 32, 6 (July 2010). [abstract; PDF.]
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Jeannet, B., Loginov, A., Reps, T., and Sagiv, M., A relational approach to interprocedural shape analysis. In ACM Trans. on Program. Lang. and Syst. 32, 2 (Jan. 2010). [abstract; PDF.]
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Lal, A. and Reps, T., Reducing concurrent analysis under a context bound to sequential analysis. In Formal Methods in System Design 35, 1 (2009). [abstract; PDF; (c) Springer-Verlag]
Lev-Ami, T., Immerman, N., Reps, T., Sagiv, M., Srivastava, S., and Yorsh, G., Simulating reachability using first-order logic with applications to verification of linked data structures. In Logical Methods in Computer Science 5, 2 (2009). [abstract; PostScript; PDF.]
Yorsh, G., Reps, T., Sagiv, M., and Wilhelm, R., Logical characterizations of heap abstractions. In ACM Transactions on Computational Logic 8, 1 (Jan. 2007). [abstract; PostScript; PDF.]
Yahav, E., Reps, T., Sagiv, M., and Wilhelm, R., Verifying temporal heap properties specified via evolution logic. Logic Journal of the IGPL 14, 5 (Oct. 2006), 755-784. [abstract; PDF.]
Reps, T., Schwoon, S., Jha, S., and Melski, D., Weighted pushdown systems and their application to interprocedural dataflow analysis. Science of Computer Programming 58, 1-2 (Oct. 2005), 206-263. [abstract; PostScript; PDF.]
Alur, R., Benedikt, M., Etessami, K., Godefroid, P., Reps, T., and Yannakakis, M., Analysis of recursive state machines. In ACM Trans. on Program. Lang. and Syst. 27, 4 (2005), 786-818. [abstract; PDF (via ACM Digital Library).]
Yorsh, G., Skidanov, A., Reps, T., and Sagiv, M., Assume/guarantee reasoning for heap-manipulating programs. In Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science 131, 24 (May 2005), 125-138. [abstract; PostScript; PDF]
Jha, S. and Reps, T., Model checking SPKI/SDSI. In Journal of Computer Security 12, 3-4 (2004), 317-353. [abstract; PDF]
Anderson, P., Reps, T., and Teitelbaum, T., Design and implementation of a fine-grained software inspection tool. In IEEE Trans. on Software Engineering 29, 8 (Aug. 2003), 721-733. [abstract; paper, via IEEE Explore.]
Reps, T.W. and Rall, L.B., Computational divided differencing and divided-difference arithmetics. In Higher-Order and Symbolic Computation 16, 1-2 (2003), 93-149. [abstract; tech. report version: PostScript, PDF; talk: Powerpoint]
Clarke, E.M., Fujita, M., Rajan, P.S., Reps, T., Shankar, S., and Teitelbaum, T., Program slicing for VHDL. In Software Tools for Technology Transfer 4, 1 (Oct. 2002), 125-137. [abstract; paper]
Sagiv, M., Reps, T., and Wilhelm, R., Parametric shape analysis via 3-valued logic. In ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems 24, 3 (2002), 217-298. [abstract; PostScript; PDF; talk: Powerpoint]
Chakaravarthy, V. and Horwitz, S., On the non-approximability of points-to analysis. Acta Informatica 38, 8 (June 2002).
Reps, T., Undecidability of context-sensitive data-dependence analysis. In ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems 22, 1 (Jan. 2000), pp. 162-186. [abstract; PostScript; PDF]
Melski, D. and Reps, T., Interconvertibility of a class of set constraints and context-free language reachability. In Theoretical Computer Science 248, 1-2 (Nov. 2000), pp. 29-98. [abstract; PostScript; PDF]
Siff, M. and Reps, T., Identifying modules via concept analysis. In IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 25, 6 (Nov./Dec. 1999), pp. 749-768. [abstract; paper, via IEEE Explore.]
Reps, T., Program analysis via graph reachability. Information and Software Technology 40, 11-12 (November/December 1998), pp. 701-726. [abstract; tech. report version of the paper: PostScript; PDF; talk: Powerpoint]
Reps, T., ``Maximal-munch'' tokenization in linear time. ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems 20, 2 (March 1998), pp. 259-273. [abstract; PostScript; PDF]
Sagiv, M., Reps, T., and Wilhelm, R., Solving shape-analysis problems in languages with destructive updating. ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems 20, 1 (January 1998), pp. 1-50. [abstract; PostScript; PDF]
S. Horwitz, Precise flow-insensitive may-alias analysis is NP-hard. ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems Vol 19 No 1, (January 1997), 1-6. toplas97a.ps
Sagiv, M., Reps, T., and Horwitz, S., Precise interprocedural dataflow analysis with applications to constant propagation. Theoretical Computer Science 167 (1996), 131-170. [abstract; PDF]
Reps, T., On the sequential nature of interprocedural program-analysis problems. Acta Informatica 33 (1996), 739-757. [abstract; paper]
Binkley, D., Horwitz, S., and Reps, T., Program integration for languages with procedure calls. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology 4, 1 (January 1995), pp. 3-35. [abstract; paper]
Yang, W., Horwitz, S., and Reps, T., A program integration algorithm that accommodates semantics-preserving transformations. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology 1, 3 (July 1992), 310-354. [abstract]
Yang, W., Identifying syntactic differences between two programs. Software - Practice & Experience 21, 7 (July 1991), pp. 739-755.
Reps, T., Algebraic properties of program integration. Science of Computer Programming 17 (1991), 139-215. [abstract; paper]
Horwitz, S. and Reps, T., Efficient comparison of program slices. Acta Informatica 28 (1991), 713-732. [abstract]
Horwitz, S., Reps, T., and Binkley, D., Interprocedural slicing using dependence graphs. ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems 12, 1 (January 1990), 26-60. [abstract; paper]
Horwitz, S., Prins, J., and Reps, T., Integrating non-interfering versions of programs. ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems 11, 3 (July 1989), 345-387. [abstract; paper]

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Invited Papers

McCloskey, B., Reps, T., and Sagiv, M., Statically inferring complex heap, array, and numeric invariants. In Proc. Static Analysis Symposium (SAS), Sept. 2010. [abstract; PDF; (c) Springer-Verlag]
Reps, T., Lim, J., Thakur, A., Balakrishnan, G., and Lal, A., There's plenty of room at the bottom: Analyzing and verifying machine code (Invited tutorial). In Proc. Computer Aided Verification, 2010. [abstract; PDF; (c) Springer-Verlag]
Reps, T. and Balakrishnan, G., Improved memory-access analysis for x86 executables. (Paper accompanying ``unifying'' invited talk at ETAPS 2008.) In Proc. Int. Conf. on Compiler Construction, April 2008. [abstract; PDF; (c) Springer-Verlag]
Reps, T., Lal, A., and Kidd, N., Program analysis using weighted pushdown systems. In Proc. 27th Conf. on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS), (New Delhi, India, Dec. 12-14, 2007). [abstract; PDF; (c) Springer-Verlag.]
Balakrishnan, G., and Reps, T., DIVINE: DIscovering Variables IN Executables. In Proc. VMCAI, (Nice, France, Jan. 14-16, 2007). [abstract; PDF; (c) Springer-Verlag.]
Jha, S., Schwoon, S., Wang, H., and Reps, T., Weighted pushdown systems and trust-management systems. In Proc. TACAS, (Vienna, Austria, Mar. 25 - Apr. 2, 2006), Springer-Verlag, New York, NY, 2006. [abstract; PDF; (c) Springer-Verlag.]
Reps, T., Balakrishnan, G., and Lim, J. Intermediate-representation recovery from low-level code. In Proc. Workshop on Partial Evaluation and Program Manipulation (PEPM), (Charleston, SC, Jan. 9-10, 2006). [abstract; PostScript; PDF]
Reps, T., Balakrishnan, G., Lim, J., and Teitelbaum, T., A next-generation platform for analyzing executables. In Proc. 3rd Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems, (Tsukuba, Japan, Nov. 3-5, 2005), Springer-Verlag, New York, NY, 2005. [abstract; PostScript; PDF; (c) Springer-Verlag.]
Reps, T., Sagiv, M., and Wilhelm, R., Static program analysis via 3-valued logic. In Proc. Int. Conf. on Computer-Aided Verification, Springer-Verlag, New York, NY, 2004, 15-30. [abstract; PostScript; PDF; (c) Springer-Verlag; talk: Powerpoint.]
Rall, L.B. and Reps, T.W., Algorithmic differencing. In Perspectives on Enclosure Methods, U. Kulisch, R. Lohner, and A. Facius (eds.), Springer-Verlag, Vienna, 2001, 133-147. (Invited paper presented at SCAN 2000: 9th GAMM-IMACS Int. Symp. on Sci. Comput., Comp. Arith., and Validated Numerics, (Karlsruhe, Ger., Sept. 19-22, 2000).) [abstract]
Wilhelm, R., Sagiv, M., and Reps, T., Shape analysis. In Proc. of CC 2000: 9th Int. Conf. on Compiler Construction, (Berlin, Ger., Mar. 27 - Apr. 2, 2000). [abstract; PostScript; PDF; (c) Springer-Verlag]
Reps, T., Program analysis via graph reachability. In Proc. of ILPS '97: International Logic Programming Symposium, (Port Jefferson, NY, Oct. 12-16, 1997), J. Maluszynski (ed.), The M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, MA, 1997, pp. 5-19. [abstract; paper, (c) Springer-Verlag]
Reps, T., The use of program profiling in software testing. In Proc. of Informatik '97 (Aachen, Germany, Sept. 24-27, 1997), M. Jarke, K. Pasedach, and K. Pohl (eds.), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Ger., 1997, pp. 4-16. [abstract; paper, (c) Springer-Verlag]
Horwitz, S. and Reps, T., The use of program dependence graphs in software engineering. In Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Software Engineering, (May 11-15, 1992, Melbourne, Australia), ACM, New York, NY, 1992, pp. 392-411. [abstract; paper]
Reps, T. and Horwitz, S., Semantics-based program integration. In Proceedings of the Second European Symposium on Programming, (Nancy, France, March 21-25, 1988), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 300, H. Ganzinger (ed.), Springer-Verlag, New York, NY, 1988, pp. 1-20.

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Book Chapters

Ramalingam, G. and Reps, T., Semantics of program representation graphs. In Semantics to Computer Science: Essays in Honour of Gilles Kahn, Y. Bertot, G. Huet, J.-J. Levy, and G. Plotkin (eds.), Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Reps, T., Sagiv, M., and Wilhelm, R., Shape analysis and applications. Chapter 12 in The Compiler Design Handbook: Optimizations and Machine Code Generation, 2nd Edition, CRC Press, 2007.
Clarke, E., Kroening, D., and Reps, T., Static analysis to enhance the power of model checking for concurrent software. In Department of Defense Sponsored Information Security Research: New Methods for Protecting Against Cyber Threats, Wiley, 2007, 349-360.
Balakrishnan, G., Christodorescu, M., Ganapathy, V., Giffin, J.T., Rubin, S., Wang, H., Jha, S., Miller, B.P., and Reps, T., Analysis of COTS for Security Vulnerability Remediation In Department of Defense Sponsored Information Security Research: New Methods for Protecting Against Cyber Threats, Wiley, 2007, 375-380.
Sagiv, M., Reps, T.W., Wilhelm, R., and Yahav, E., On the utility of canonical abstraction. In Engineering Theories of Software Intensive Systems, M. Broy, J. Gruenbauer, T. Hoare, and D. Harel (eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 2005, 215-253.
Reps, T., Sagiv, M., and Wilhelm, R., Shape analysis and applications. In The Compiler Design Handbook: Optimizations and Machine Code Generation, CRC Press, 2002, 175-217.
Reps, T., Demand interprocedural program analysis using logic databases, In Applications of Logic Databases, R. Ramakrishnan (ed.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, MA, 1994, pp. 163-196. [abstract; paper]

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Reprinted in Collections

Reps, T.W. and Rall, L.B., Computational divided differencing and divided-difference arithmetics, In Automatic Program Development: A Tribute to Robert Paige, Danvy, O., Mairson, H., Henglein, F., and Pettorossi, A. (Eds.), Springer Verlag, 2008.
Revised version of Reps, T.W. and Rall, L.B., Computational divided differencing and divided-difference arithmetics. Higher-Order and Symbolic Computation 16, 1-2 (June 2003).
Loginov, A., Reps, T., and Sagiv, M., Abstraction refinement via inductive learning, In Department of Defense Sponsored Information Security Research: New Methods for Protecting Against Cyber Threats, Wiley, 2007, 361-374.
Reprinted from Proc. Computer-Aided Verification, 2005.
Reps, T., Balakrishnan, G., Lim, J., and Teitelbaum, T., A next-generation platform for analyzing executables. In Malware Detection, Advances in Information Security Series, Vol. 27, M. Christodorescu, S. Jha, D. Maughan, D. Song, and C. Wang (eds.), Springer-Verlag, 2006, pp. 43-61.
Reprinted from Proc. 3rd Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems, (Tsukuba, Japan, Nov. 3-5, 2005).
Horwitz, S., Reps, T., and Binkley, D., Interprocedural slicing using dependence graphs. 20 Years of the ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (1979 - 1999): A Selection, K.S. McKinley, ed., ACM SIGPLAN Notices 39, 4 (April 2004), 232-243. [abstract]
Reprinted from Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 88 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, (Atlanta, GA, June 22-24, 1988), ACM SIGPLAN Notices 23, 7 (July 1988), pp. 35-46.
A retrospective on the paper was published as
Horwitz, S., Reps, T., and Binkley, D., Retrospective: Interprocedural slicing using dependence graphs. 20 Years of the ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (1979 - 1999): A Selection, K.S. McKinley, ed., ACM SIGPLAN Notices 39, 4 (April 2004), 229-231. [retrospective (PS); retrospective (PDF)]
Horwitz, S., Reps, T., and Binkley, D., Interprocedural slicing using dependence graphs. In Software Change Impact Analysis, S.A. Bohner and R.S. Arnold (eds.), IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, CA, 1996.
Reprinted from ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems 12, 1 (January 1990), 26-60. [abstract; paper]
Horwitz, S., Reps, T., and Binkley, D., Interprocedural slicing using dependence graphs. In Software Merging and Slicing, V. Berzins (ed.), IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, CA, pp. 10-44.
Reprinted from ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems 12, 1 (January 1990), 26-60. [abstract; paper]
Horwitz, S., Prins, J., and Reps, T., Integrating non-interfering versions of programs. In Software Merging and Slicing, V. Berzins (ed.), IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, CA, pp. 137-179.
Reprinted from ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems 11, 3 (July 1989), 345-387. [abstract; paper]
Ramalingam, G. and Reps, T., A theory of program modifications. In Software Merging and Slicing, V. Berzins (ed.), IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, CA, 90-105.
Reprinted from Proceedings of the Colloquium on Combining Paradigms for Software Development, (Brighton, UK, April 8-12, 1991), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 494, S. Abramsky and T.S.E. Maibaum (eds.), Springer-Verlag, New York, NY, 1991, pp. 137-152.

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Edited Books

Program Analysis and Compilation, Theory and Practice: Essays Dedicated to Reinhard Wilhelm, T. Reps, M. Sagiv, and J. Bauer (eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4444, Springer-Verlag, 2007. [For information, click here; or access the online version here.]
Proceedings of the 27th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL), Boston, Massachusetts, USA, January 19-21, 2000, M.N. Wegman and T.W. Reps (eds.) ACM, 2000. [Link via ACM Digital Library.]

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Conference and Refereed Workshop Publications

Harris, W.R., Jha, S., Reps, T., Anderson, J., and Watson, R.N.M., Declarative, temporal, and practical programming with capabilities. To appear in Proc. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP), 2013. [abstract; PDF]
Thakur, A., Elder, M., and Reps, T., Bilateral algorithms for symbolic abstraction. In Proc. Static Analysis Symposium (SAS), 2012. [abstract; PDF; (c) Springer-Verlag]
Thakur, A. and Reps, T., A generalization of Staalmarck's method. In Proc. Static Analysis Symposium (SAS), 2012. [abstract; PDF; extended version: TR-1699r; (c) Springer-Verlag]
Harris, W.R., Jha, S., and Reps, T., Secure programming via visibly pushdown safety games. In Proc. Computer-Aided Verification (CAV), 2012. [abstract; PDF; (c) Springer-Verlag]
Fredrikson, M., Joiner, R., Jha, S., Reps, T., Porras, P., Saïdi, H., and Yegneswaran, V., Efficient runtime policy enforcement using counterexample-guided abstraction refinement. In Proc. Computer-Aided Verification (CAV), 2012. [abstract; PDF; (c) Springer-Verlag]
Thakur, A. and Reps, T., A method for symbolic computation of abstract operations. In Proc. Computer-Aided Verification (CAV), 2012. [abstract; PDF; (c) Springer-Verlag]
Driscoll, E., Thakur, A., and Reps, T., OpenNWA: A nested-word-automaton library (tool paper). In Proc. Computer-Aided Verification (CAV), 2012. [abstract; PDF; (c) Springer-Verlag]
Elder, M., Lim, J., Sharma, T., Andersen, T., and Reps, T., Abstract domains of affine relations. In Proc. Static Analysis Symposium (SAS), 2011. [abstract; SAS 11 version; Extended version with proofs (TR-1691); (c) Springer-Verlag]
Driscoll, E., Burton, A., and Reps, T., Checking compatibility of a producer and a consumer. In Proc. Found. of Software Engineering (FSE), 2011. [abstract; PDF.]
Zhang, W., Lim, J., Olichandran, R., Scherpelz, J., Jin, G., Lu, S., and Reps, T., ConSeq: Detecting concurrency bugs through sequential errors. In Proc. Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), 2011. [abstract; PDF.]
Harris, W., Jha, S., and Reps, T., DIFC programs by automatic instrumentation. In Proc. ACM Conf. on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2010. [abstract; PDF.]
Thakur, A., Lim, J., Lal, A., Burton, A., Driscoll, E., Elder, M., Andersen, T., and Reps, T., Directed proof generation for machine code. In Proc. Computer-Aided Verification (CAV), 2010. [abstract; CAV 10 version; Extended version (TR-1669); (c) Springer-Verlag]
Harris, W., Kidd, N., Chaki, S., Jha, S., and Reps, T., Verifying information flow over unbounded processes. In Proc. Int. Symp. on Formal Methods (FM), 2009. [abstract; PDF; (c) Springer-Verlag]
Kidd, N., Lammich, P., Touili, T., and Reps, T., A decision procedure for detecting atomicity violations for communicating processes with locks. In Proc. SPIN Workshop, 2009. [abstract; PDF; (c) Springer-Verlag] (An extended version with proofs is available here.)
Lim, J., Lal, A., and Reps, T., Symbolic analysis via semantic reinterpretation. In Proc. SPIN Workshop, 2009. [abstract; PDF; (c) Springer-Verlag]
Kidd, N., Reps, T., Dolby, J., and Vaziri, M., Finding concurrency-related bugs using random isolation. In Proc. Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation (VMCAI), 2009. [abstract; PDF; (c) Springer-Verlag]
Lal, A. and Reps, T., Reducing concurrent analysis under a context bound to sequential analysis. In Proc. Computer-Aided Verification (CAV), 2008. [abstract; PDF; (c) Springer-Verlag]
Lal, A. and Reps, T., Solving multiple dataflow queries. In Proc. Static Analysis Symposium (SAS), July 2008. [abstract; PDF; (c) Springer-Verlag]
Kidd, N., Lal, A. and Reps, T., Language strength reduction. In Proc. Static Analysis Symposium (SAS), July 2008. [abstract; PDF; (c) Springer-Verlag]
Lim, J. and Reps, T., A system for generating static analyzers for machine instructions. In Proc. Int. Conf. on Compiler Construction (CC), April 2008. (Awarded the EAPLS Best Paper Award at ETAPS 2008.) [abstract; PDF; talk: Powerpoint (12 MB); (c) Springer-Verlag]
Balakrishnan, G. and Reps, T., Analyzing stripped device-driver executables. In Proc. TACAS, Springer-Verlag, New York, NY, April 2008. [abstract; PDF; talk: Powerpoint; (c) Springer-Verlag]
Lal, A., Touili, T., Kidd, N., and Reps, T., Interprocedural analysis of concurrent programs under a context bound. In Proc. TACAS, Springer-Verlag, New York, NY, April 2008. [abstract; PDF; (c) Springer-Verlag]
Lal, A., Kidd, N., Reps, T., and Touili, T., Abstract error projection. In Proc. Static Analysis Symposium, 2007. [abstract; PDF; (c) Springer-Verlag]
Gopan, D. and Reps, T., Guided static analysis. In Proc. Static Analysis Symposium, 2007. [abstract; PDF; (c) Springer-Verlag]
Lev-Ami, T., Weidenbach, C., Reps, T., and Sagiv, M., Labelled clauses. In Proc. Conference on Automated Deduction, 2007. [abstract; PDF; (c) Springer-Verlag]
Gopan, D. and Reps, T., Low-level library analysis and summarization. In Proc. Computer-Aided Verification, 2007. [abstract; PDF; (c) Springer-Verlag]
Amit, D., Rinetzky, N., Reps, T., Sagiv, M., and Yahav, E., Comparison under abstraction for verifying linearizability. In Proc. Computer-Aided Verification, 2007. [abstract; PDF; (c) Springer-Verlag]
Bogudlov, I., Lev-Ami, T., Reps, T, and Sagiv, M., Revamping TVLA: Making parametric shape analysis competitive (tool paper). In Proc. Computer-Aided Verification, 2007. [abstract; PDF; (c) Springer-Verlag]
Loginov, A., Reps, T., and Sagiv, M., Refinement-based verification for possibly-cyclic lists. In Program Analysis and Compilation, Theory and Practice: Essays Dedicated to Reinhard Wilhelm, Springer-Verlag. [abstract; PDF; (c) Springer-Verlag]
Balakrishnan, G., Reps, T., Melski, D., and Teitelbaum, T., WYSINWYX: What You See Is Not What You eXecute. In Verified Software: Theories, Tools, Experiments, Springer-Verlag, 2007. [abstract; PostScript; PDF; (c) Springer-Verlag]
Dor, N., Field, J., Gopan, D., Lev-Ami, T., Loginov, A., Manevich, R., Ramalingam, G., Reps, T., Rinetzky, N., Sagiv, M., Wilhelm, R., Yahav, E., and Yorsh, G., Automatic verification of strongly dynamic software systems. In Verified Software: Theories, Tools, Experiments, Springer-Verlag, 2007. [abstract; PostScript; PDF; (c) Springer-Verlag]
Lev-Ami, T., Sagiv, M., Immerman, N., and Reps, T., Shape analysis of uniform change. In Proc. VMCAI, (Nice, France, Jan. 14-16, 2007). [abstract; PDF; (c) Springer-Verlag]
Lim, J., Reps, T., and Liblit, B., Extracting output formats from executables. In Proc. IEEE Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, (Benevento, Italy, Oct. 23-27, 2006). [abstract; PDF; talk: Powerpoint]
Wang, H., Jha, S., Reps, T., Schwoon, S., and Stubblebine, S., Reducing the dependence of SPKI/SDSI on PKI. In European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), 2006. [abstract; PDF; (c) Springer-Verlag]
Loginov, A., Reps, T., and Sagiv, M., Automated verification of the Deutsch-Schorr-Waite tree-traversal algorithm. In Static Analysis Symposium, 2006. [abstract; PDF; (c) Springer-Verlag]
Balakrishnan, G. and Reps, T., Recency-abstraction for heap-allocated storage. In Static Analysis Symposium, 2006. [abstract; PDF; (c) Springer-Verlag]
Lal, A. and Reps, T., Improving pushdown system model checking. In Computer-Aided Verification 2006. [abstract; PDF; (c) Springer-Verlag]
Gopan, D. and Reps, T., Lookahead widening. In Computer-Aided Verification 2006. [abstract; PDF; (c) Springer-Verlag]
Chaki, S., Clarke, E., Kidd, N., Reps, T., and Touili, T., Verifying concurrent message-passing C programs with recursive calls. In Proc. TACAS, Springer-Verlag, New York, NY, 2006. [abstract; PostScript; PDF; (c) Springer-Verlag; talk: Powerpoint]
Jeannet, B., Gopan, D., and Reps, T., A relational abstraction for functions. In Proc. 12th Int. Static Analysis Symp., 2005. [abstract; PostScript; PDF; (c) Springer-Verlag]
Lev-Ami, T., Immerman, N., Reps, T., Sagiv, M., Srivastava, S., and Yorsh, G., Simulating reachability using first-order logic with applications to verification of linked data structures. In Proc. Conf. on Automated Deduction, 2005. [abstract; PostScript; PDF; (c) Springer-Verlag; talk: Powerpoint.]
Balakrishnan, G., Reps, T., Kidd, N., Lal, A., Lim, J., Melski, D., Gruian, R., Yong, S., Chen, C.-H., and Teitelbaum, T., Model checking x86 executables with CodeSurfer/x86 and WPDS++, (tool-demonstration paper). In Proc. Computer-Aided Verification, 2005. [abstract; PostScript; PDF; (c) Springer-Verlag]
Lal, A., Balakrishnan, G., and Reps, T., Extended weighted pushdown systems. In Proc. Computer-Aided Verification, 2005. [abstract; PostScript; PDF; (c) Springer-Verlag]
Loginov, A., Reps, T, and Sagiv, M., Abstraction refinement via inductive learning. In Proc. Computer-Aided Verification, 2005. [abstract; PostScript; PDF; (c) Springer-Verlag]
Ganapathy, V., Seshia, S.A., Jha, S., Reps, T.W., and Bryant, R.E., Automatic discovery of API-level exploits. In Proc. Int. Conf. on Software Engineering, (St. Louis, Missouri, May 15-21, 2005). [abstract; PostScript; PDF]
Balakrishnan, G., Gruian, R., Reps, T., and Teitelbaum, T., CodeSurfer/x86 -- A platform for analyzing x86 executables, (tool demonstration paper). In Proc. Int. Conf. on Compiler Construction, April 2005. [abstract; PostScript; PDF; (c) Springer-Verlag]
Jeannet, B., Gopan, D., and Reps, T., A relational abstraction for functions. In Int. Workshop on Numerical and Symbolic Abstract Domains, Jan. 2005. [abstract; PostScript; PDF]
Gopan, D., Reps, T., and Sagiv, M., Numeric analysis of array operations. In Conference Record of the Thirty-Second ACM Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages, (Long Beach, CA, Jan. 12-14, 2005), 338-350. [abstract; PostScript; PDF]
Rinetzky, N., Bauer, J., Reps, T., Sagiv, M., and Wilhelm, R., A semantics for procedure local heaps and its abstractions. In Conference Record of the Thirty-Second ACM Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages, (Long Beach, CA, Jan. 12-14, 2005), 296-309. [abstract; PDF]
Immerman, N., Rabinovich, A., Reps, T., Sagiv, M., and Yorsh, G., The boundary between decidability and undecidability for transitive closure logics. In Proc. Computer Science Logic, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, New York, NY, 2004. [abstract]
Jeannet, B., Loginov, A., Reps, T., and Sagiv, M., A relational approach to interprocedural shape analysis. In Proc. 11th Int. Static Analysis Symp., Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, New York, NY, 2004. [abstract; PostScript; PDF; (c) Springer-Verlag]
Immerman, N., Rabinovich, A., Reps, T., Sagiv, M., and Yorsh, G., Verification via structure simulation. In Proc. Int. Conf. on Computer-Aided Verification, 2004, 281-294. [abstract; PostScript; PDF; (c) Springer-Verlag]
Balakrishnan, G. and Reps, T., Analyzing memory accesses in x86 executables. In Proc. Int. Conf. on Compiler Construction, Springer-Verlag, New York, NY, 2004, 5-23. (Awarded the EAPLS Best Paper Award at ETAPS 2004.) [abstract; PostScript; PDF; (c) Springer-Verlag; talk: Powerpoint]
Yorsh, G., Reps, T., and Sagiv, M., Symbolically computing most-precise abstract operations for shape analysis. In Proc. TACAS, Springer-Verlag, New York, NY, 2004, 530-545. [abstract; PostScript; PDF; (c) Springer-Verlag]
Gopan, D., DiMaio, F., Dor, N., Reps, T., and Sagiv, M., Numeric domains with summarized dimensions. In Proc. TACAS, Springer-Verlag, New York, NY, 2004, 512-529. [abstract; PostScript; PDF; (c) Springer-Verlag]
Reps, T., Sagiv, M., and Yorsh, G., Symbolic implementation of the best transformer. In Proc. VMCAI, 2004, 252-266. [abstract; PostScript; PDF; (c) Springer-Verlag]
S. Yong and S. Horwitz, Protecting C Programs from Attacks via Invalid Pointer Dereferences. In Proceedings of the 10th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering, (Sept 2003, Helsinki Finland), pp. 307-316. [abstract; Postscript,]
T. Reps, S. Schwoon, and S. Jha, Weighted pushdown systems and their application to interprocedural dataflow analysis. In Proc. 10th Int. Static Analysis Symp., (June 11-13, 2003, San Diego, CA), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2694, Springer-Verlag, New York, NY, 2003, pp. 189-213. [abstract; PostScript; PDF; (c) Springer-Verlag; talk: Powerpoint]
S. Schwoon, S. Jha, T. Reps, and S. Stubblebine, On generalized authorization problems. In Proc. 16th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Workshop, (June 30 - July 2, 2003, Asilomar, Pacific Grove, CA), pp. 202-218. [abstract; PostScript, PDF; talk: Powerpoint.]
R. Komondoor and S. Horwitz, Effective, Automatic Procedure Extraction. In Proc. 11th IEEE International Workshop on Program Comprehension, (Portland, Oregon, May 10-11, 2003). [abstract; Postscript]
Reps, T., Sagiv, M., and Loginov, A., Finite differencing of logical formulas for static analysis. In Proc. European Symp. on Programming, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2618, Springer-Verlag, New York, NY, 2003, pp. 380-398. [abstract; PostScript; PDF; (c) Springer-Verlag]
Yahav, E., Reps, T., Sagiv, M., and Wilhelm, R. Verifying temporal heap properties specified via evolution logic. In Proc. European Symp. on Programming, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2618, Springer-Verlag, New York, NY, 2003, pp. 204-222. [abstract; PostScript; PDF; (c) Springer-Verlag]
Melski, D and Reps, T., The interprocedural express-lane transformation. In Proc. Int. Conf. on Compiler Construction, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2622, Springer-Verlag, New York, NY, 2003, pp. 200-216. [abstract; PostScript; PDF; (c) Springer-Verlag]
Yong, S. and Horwitz, S, Reducing the overhead of dynamic analysis. In Proceedings RV'02 (Second Workshop on Runtime Verification) (Copenhagen, Denmark, July 26, 2002). [postscript]
Reps, T., Loginov, A., and Sagiv, M., Semantic minimization of 3-valued propositional formulae. In Proc. IEEE Symp. on Logic in Computer Science, (Copenhagen, Denmark, July 22-25, 2002), pp. 40-54. [abstract; PostScript; PDF; talk: Powerpoint.]
Jha, S. and Reps, T., Analysis of SPKI/SDSI certificates using model checking. In Proc. 15th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Workshop, (Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, June 24-26, 2002), pp. 129-146. [abstract; PostScript; PDF]
Horwitz, S., Tool support for improving test coverage. In Proc. of ESOP 2002: European Symp. on Programming, (Grenoble, France, April 8-12, 2002). [abstract; paper, (c) Springer-Verlag]
Kumar, S. and Horwitz, S., Better slicing of programs with jumps and switches. In Proc. of FASE 2002: Fundamental Approaches to Softw. Eng., (Grenoble, France, April 8-12, 2002). [abstract; paper, (c) Springer-Verlag]
Komondoor, R. and Horwitz, S., Using slicing to identify duplication in source code. In Proc. of the 8th International Symposium on Static Analysis, (Paris, France, July 16-18, 2001), [abstract; paper, (c) Springer-Verlag]
Benedikt, M., Godefroid, P., and Reps, T., Model checking of unrestricted hierarchical state machines. In Proc. of ICALP 2001, Twenty-Eighth Int. Colloq. on Automata, Languages, and Programming, (Crete, Greece, July 8-12, 2001), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2076, Springer-Verlag, New York, NY, 2001, pp. 652-666. [abstract; PostScript; PDF; (c) Springer-Verlag]
Loginov, A., Yong, S.H., Horwitz, S., and Reps, T., Debugging via run-time type checking. In Proc. of FASE 2001: Fundamental Approaches to Softw. Eng., (Genoa, Italy, April 2-6, 2001). [abstract; PostScript; PDF; (c) Springer-Verlag]
Xu, Z., Reps, T., and Miller, B., Typestate checking of machine code. In Proc. of ESOP 2001: European Symp. on Programming, (Genoa, Italy, April 2-6, 2001). [abstract; PostScript; PDF; (c) Springer-Verlag]
Lev-Ami, T., Reps, T., Sagiv, M., and Wilhelm, R., Putting static analysis to work for verification: A case study. In ISSTA 2000: Proc. of the Int. Symp. on Software Testing and Analysis, (Portland, OR, Aug. 21-25, 2000). [abstract; PostScript; PDF]
Xu, Z., Miller, B., and Reps, T., Safety checking of machine code. In SIGPLAN '00: Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, (Vancouver B.C., Canada, June 18-21, 2000), pp. 70-82. [abstract; paper]
Komondoor, R. and Horwitz, S., Semantics-preserving procedure extraction. In POPL '00: Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages, (Boston, MA, January 2000), pp. 155-169. [abstract; paper]
Chandra, S. and Reps, T., Physical type checking for C. In Proc. of PASTE '99: SIGPLAN-SIGSOFT Workshop on Program Analysis for Software Tools and Engineering, (Toulouse, France, Sept. 6, 1999). ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes 24, 5 (Sept. 1999), pp. 66-75. [abstract; PostScript; PDF]
Siff, M., Chandra, S., Ball, T., Kunchithapadam, K., and Reps, T., Coping with type casts in C. In Proceedings of ESEC/FSE '99: Seventh European Software Engineering Conference and Seventh ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, (Toulouse, France, Sept. 6-10, 1999), pp. 180-198. [abstract; PostScript; PDF]
Clarke, E.M., Fujita, M., Rajan, P.S., Reps, T., Shankar, S., and Teitelbaum, T., Program slicing of hardware description languages. In Proc. of Charme '99, (Bad Herrenalb, Ger., Sept. 27-29, 1999). [abstract; PostScript; PDF]
Yong, S.H., Horwitz, S., and Reps, T., Pointer analysis for programs with structures and casting. In SIGPLAN '99: Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, (Atlanta, GA, May 1-4, 1999), ACM SIGPLAN Notices 34, 5 (May 1999), pp. 91-103. [abstract; PostScript; PDF]
Melski, D. and Reps, T., Interprocedural path profiling. In Proc. of CC '99: 8th Int. Conf. on Compiler Construction, (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Mar. 22-26, 1999), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1575, S. Jaehnichen (ed.), Springer-Verlag, New York, NY, 1999, pp. 47-62. [abstract; PostScript; PDF; (c) Springer-Verlag]
Benedikt, M., Reps, T., and Sagiv, M., A decidable logic for describing linked data structures. In Proc. of ESOP '99: European Symposium on Programming, (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Mar. 22-26, 1999), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1576, S.D. Swierstra (ed.), Springer-Verlag, New York, NY, 1999, pp. 2-19. [abstract; PostScript; PDF; (c) Springer-Verlag]
Sagiv, M., Reps, T., and Wilhelm, R., Parametric shape analysis via 3-valued logic. In Conference Record of the Twenty-Sixth ACM Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages, (San Antonio, TX, Jan. 20-22, 1999), ACM, New York, NY, 1999, pp. 105-118. [abstract; PostScript; PDF]
Hasti, R. and Horwitz, S., Using static single assignment form to improve flow-insensitive pointer analysis. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN '98 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (Montreal Canada, June 16-20, 1998). [abstract; paper (postscript); paper (pdf)]
Siff, M. and Reps, T., Identifying modules via concept analysis. In ICSM '97: IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, (Oct. 1-3, 1997, Bari, Italy), M.J. Harrold and G. Visaggio (eds.), IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC, 1997, pp. 170-179. [abstract; PostScript; PDF]
Reps, T., Ball, T., Das, M., and Larus, J., The use of program profiling for software maintenance with applications to the Year 2000 Problem. In Proceedings of ESEC/FSE '97: Sixth European Software Engineering Conference and Fifth ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, (Zurich, Switzerland, Sept. 22-25, 1997), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1301, M. Jazayeri and H. Schauer (eds.), Springer-Verlag, New York, NY, 1997, pp. 432-449. [abstract; paper, (c) Springer-Verlag]
Shapiro, M. and Horwitz, S., The effects of the precision of pointer analysis. In Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Static Analysis, (Paris, France, September 8-10, 1997), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1302, Pascal Van Hentenryck (ed.), Springer-Verlag, New York, NY, 1997, pp. 16-34. [abstract; paper, (c) Springer-Verlag]
Melski, D. and Reps, T., Interconvertibility of set constraints and context-free language reachability. In PEPM '97: Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Partial Evaluation and Semantics-Based Program Manipulation, (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 12-13, 1997), ACM, New York, NY, 1997, pp. 74-89. [abstract; paper]
Shapiro, M. and Horwitz, S., Fast and accurate flow-insensitive points-to analysis. In Conference Record of the Twenty-Fourth ACM Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages, (Paris, France, Jan. 15-17, 1997). [abstract; paper]
Siff, M. and Reps, T., Program generalization for software reuse: From C to C++. In SIGSOFT 96: Proceedings of the Fourth ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, (San Francisco, CA, October 16-18, 1996), ACM, New York, NY, 1996, pp. 135-146. [abstract; paper]
Reps, T. and Turnidge, T., Program specialization via program slicing. In Proceedings of the Dagstuhl Seminar on Partial Evaluation, (Schloss Dagstuhl, Wadern, Germany, Feb. 12-16, 1996), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1110, O. Danvy, R. Glueck, and P. Thiemann (eds.), Springer-Verlag, New York, NY, 1996, pp. 409-429. [abstract; paper, (c) Springer-Verlag]
Sagiv, M., Reps, T., and Wilhelm, R., Solving shape-analysis problems in languages with destructive updating. In Conference Record of the Twenty-Third ACM Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages, (St. Petersburg, FL, Jan. 22-24, 1996), ACM, New York, NY, 1996, pp. 16-31. [abstract; paper]
Horwitz, S., Reps, T., and Sagiv, M., Demand interprocedural dataflow analysis. In SIGSOFT '95: Proceedings of the Third ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, (Washington, DC, October 10-13, 1995), ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes 20, 4 (1995), pp. 104-115. [abstract; paper]
Reps, T. and Rosay, G., Precise interprocedural chopping. In SIGSOFT '95: Proceedings of the Third ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, (Washington, DC, October 10-13, 1995), ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes 20, 4 (1995), pp. 41-52. [abstract; paper]
Das, M., Reps, T., and Van Hentenryck, P. Semantic foundations of binding-time analysis for imperative programs. In PEPM '95: Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Partial Evaluation and Semantics-Based Program Manipulation, (La Jolla, California, June 21-23, 1995), ACM, New York, NY, 1995, pp. 100-110. [abstract; paper]
Reps, T., Shape analysis as a generalized path problem. In PEPM '95: Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Partial Evaluation and Semantics-Based Program Manipulation, (La Jolla, California, June 21-23, 1995), ACM, New York, NY, 1995, pp. 1-11. [abstract; PostScript; PDF]
Sagiv, M., Reps, T., and Horwitz, S., Precise interprocedural dataflow analysis with applications to constant propagation. In Proceedings of FASE '95: Colloquium on Formal Approaches in Software Engineering, (Aarhus, Denmark, May 22-26, 1995), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 915, P.D. Mosses, M. Nielsen, and M.I. Schwartzbach (eds.), Springer-Verlag, New York, NY, 1995, pp. 651-665. [abstract; paper, (c) Springer-Verlag]
Reps, T., Horwitz, S., and Sagiv, M., Precise interprocedural dataflow analysis via graph reachability. In Conference Record of the Twenty-Second ACM Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages, (San Francisco, CA, Jan. 23-25, 1995), pp. 49-61. [abstract; PDF]
Reps, T., Horwitz, S., Sagiv, M., and Rosay, G., Speeding up slicing. In SIGSOFT '94: Proceedings of the Second ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, (New Orleans, LA, December 7-9, 1994), ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes 19, 5 (December 1994), pp. 11-20. (Awarded an ACM SIGSOFT Retrospective Impact Paper Award 2011.) [abstract; PDF]
Reps, T., Solving demand versions of interprocedural analysis problems. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Compiler Construction, (Edinburgh, Scotland, April 7-9, 1994), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 786, P. Fritzson (ed.), Springer-Verlag, New York, NY, 1994, pp. 389-403. [abstract; paper, (c) Springer-Verlag]
Ramalingam, G. and Reps, T., An incremental algorithm for maintaining the dominator tree of a reducible flowgraph. In Conference Record of the Twenty-First ACM Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages, (Portland, OR, Jan. 16-19, 1994), pp. 287-296. [abstract; PostScript; PDF]
Ball, T. and Horwitz, S., Slicing programs with arbitrary control flow. In Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Automated and Algorithmic Debugging, (Linkoeping, Sweden, May 1993), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 749, Springer-Verlag, New York, NY, 1993, pp. 206-222. [paper, (c) Springer-Verlag]
Bates, S. and Horwitz, S., Incremental program testing using program dependence graphs. In Conference Record of the Twentieth ACM Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages, (Charleston, SC, January 10-13, 1993), ACM, New York, NY, 1993, pp. 384-396. [paper]
Ramalingam, G. and Reps, T., Modification algebras. In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Algebraic Methodology and Software Technology (AMAST), (Iowa City, Iowa, May 22-24, 1991).
Pfeiffer, P. and Selke, R.P., On the adequacy of dependence-based representations for programs with heaps. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Software (TACS '91), (Sendai, Japan, September 1991), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 526, T. Ito and A. R. Meyer (eds.), Springer-Verlag, New York, NY, 1991.
Ramalingam, G. and Reps, T., A theory of program modifications. In Proceedings of the Colloquium on Combining Paradigms for Software Development, (Brighton, UK, April 8-12, 1991), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 494, S. Abramsky and T.S.E. Maibaum (eds.), Springer-Verlag, New York, NY, 1991, pp. 137-152.
Yang, W., Horwitz, S., and Reps, T., A program integration algorithm that accommodates semantics-preserving transformations. In SIGSOFT '90: Proceedings of the Fourth ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Software Development Environments, (Irvine, CA, December 3-5, 1990), ACM Software Engineering Notes 15, 6 (December 1990), pp. 133-143.
Horwitz, S., Identifying the semantic and textual differences between two versions of a program. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 90 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (White Plains, NY, June 20-22, 1990), ACM SIGPLAN Notices 25, 6 (June 1990), pp. 234-245.
Reps, T., Algebraic properties of program integration. In Proceedings of the 3nd European Symposium on Programming (Copenhagen, Denmark, May 15-18, 1990), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 432, N. Jones (ed.), Springer-Verlag, New York, NY, 1990, pp. 326-340.
Reps, T. and Bricker, T., Illustrating interference in interfering versions of programs. In Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Software Configuration Management, (Princeton, NJ, October 24-27, 1989), ACM Software Engineering Notes 17, 7 (November 1989), pp. 46-55.
Horwitz, S., Pfeiffer, P., and Reps, T., Dependence analysis for pointer variables. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 89 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, (Portland, OR, June 21-23, 1989), ACM SIGPLAN Notices 24, 7 (July 1989), pp. 28-40.
Reps, T. and Yang, W., The semantics of program slicing and program integration. In Proceedings of the Colloquium on Current Issues in Programming Languages, (Barcelona, Spain, March 13-17, 1989), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 352, J. Diaz and F. Orejas (eds.), Springer-Verlag, New York, NY, 1989, pp. 360-374.
Horwitz, S., Reps, T., and Binkley, D., Interprocedural slicing using dependence graphs. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 88 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, (Atlanta, GA, June 22-24, 1988), ACM SIGPLAN Notices 23, 7 (July 1988), pp. 35-46. (Selected as one of the 50 most influential papers from ACM PLDI 1979-99.) [abstract; retrospective (PS); retrospective (PDF)]
Reps, T., Horwitz, S., and Prins, J., Support for integrating program variants in an environment for programming in the large. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Software Version and Configuration Control, (Grassau, W. Germany, Jan. 27-29, 1988), Berichte des German Chapter of the ACM, Vol. 30, J.F.H. Winkler (ed.), B.G. Teubner, Stuttgart, W. Germany, 1988, pp. 197-216.
Horwitz, S., Prins, J., and Reps, T., Integrating non-interfering versions of programs. In Conference Record of the Fifteenth ACM Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages, (San Diego, CA, January 13-15, 1988), ACM, New York, NY, 1988, pp. 133-145.
Horwitz, S., Prins, J., and Reps, T., On the adequacy of program dependence graphs for representing programs. In Conference Record of the Fifteenth ACM Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages, (San Diego, CA, January 13-15, 1988), ACM, New York, NY, 1988, pp. 146-157. [abstract; paper]

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Patents

Reps, T., Horwitz, S., and Binkley, D., Interprocedural slicing of computer programs using dependence graphs. U.S. Patent Number 5,161,216, issued November 3, 1992.

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Pending Submissions

Elder, M., Lim, J., Sharma, T., Andersen, T., and Reps, T., Abstract domains of affine relations. TR-1792, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, May 2013. Submitted for journal publication. [abstract; PDF]
Srinivasan, V.K. and Reps, T., Software-architecture recovery from machine code. TR-1781, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, March 2013. Submitted for conference publication. [abstract; PDF]
Aung, M., Horwitz, S., Joiner, R., and Reps, T., Specialization slicing. TR-1776, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, October 2012. Submitted for journal publication. [abstract; PDF]

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Ph.D. Dissertations

Junghee Lim, Transformer Specification Language: A system for generating analyzers and its applications. Ph.D. dissertation and Tech. Rep. TR-1689, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, May 2011. [abstract; PDF] (CiteseerX, Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic Search, DB&LP )
For this work, Junghee received the UW Computer Sciences Department's Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award for 2010-2011.
Nick Kidd, Static verification of data-consistency properties. Ph.D. dissertation and Tech. Rep. TR-1665, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, August 2009. [abstract; PDF]
Akash Lal, Interprocedural analysis and the verification of concurrent programs. Ph.D. dissertation and Tech. Rep. TR-1662, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, August 2009. [abstract; PDF]
For this work, Akash was a co-recipient of the 2009 SIGPLAN Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, and a co-recipient of the UW Computer Sciences Department's Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award for 2008-2009. Akash was also named as one of the 18 awardees selected for the 2011 India TR-35 list (top innovators under 35).
Balakrishnan, G., WYSINWYX: What You See Is Not What You eXecute. Ph.D. dissertation and Tech. Rep. TR-1603, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, August 2007. [abstract; PDF]
For this work, Gogul received the UW Computer Sciences Department's Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award for 2007-2008.
Gopan, D., Numeric program analysis techniques with applications to array analysis and library summarization. Ph.D. dissertation and Tech. Rep. TR-1602, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, August 2007. [abstract; PDF]
Loginov, A., Refinement-based program verification via three-valued-logic analysis. Ph.D. dissertation and Tech. Rep. TR-1574, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, August 2006. [abstract; PDF]
Yong, S., Runtime monitoring of C programs for security and correctness. Ph.D. dissertation, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, August 2004. [PS; PDF]
Komondoor, R., Automated duplicated-code detection and procedure extraction. Ph.D. dissertation, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, August 2003. [PDF]
Melski, D., Interprocedural path profiling and the interprocedural express-lane transformation. Ph.D. dissertation and Tech. Rep. TR-1435, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, February 2002. [abstract; PostScript; PDF]
Xu, Z., Safety-checking of machine code. Ph.D. dissertation, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, December 2000. [abstract; PostScript; PDF]
Siff, M., Techniques for software renovation. Ph.D. dissertation and Tech. Rep. TR-1384, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, August 1998. [abstract; dissertation]
Das, M., Partial evaluation using dependence graphs. Ph.D. dissertation and Tech. Rep. TR-1362, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, February 1998. [abstract; dissertation]
Ball, T.J., The use of control-flow and control dependence in software tools. Ph.D. dissertation and Tech. Rep. TR-1169, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, August 1993. [dissertation]
G. Ramalingam, Bounded incremental computation. Ph.D. dissertation and Tech. Rep. TR-1172, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, August 1993.
Dissertation published as: Ramalingam, G., Bounded Incremental Computation, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1089, Springer-Verlag, New York, NY, 1996. [Access via SpringerLink.]
Binkley, D., Multi-procedure program integration. Ph.D. dissertation and Tech. Rep. TR-1038, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, August 1991. [dissertation]
Pfeiffer, P., Dependence-based representations for programs with reference variables. Ph.D. dissertation and Tech. Rep. TR-1037, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, August 1991. [dissertation (7.2 MB)]
Yang, W. A new algorithm for semantics-based program integration. Ph.D. dissertation and Tech. Rep. TR-962, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, August 1990. [dissertation]

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Magazine Articles

Anderson, P. and Reps, T., WYSINWYX: What You See Is Not What You eXecute. In Embedded Systems Design, Feb. 2010.
Anderson, P., Reps, T., Teitelbaum, T., and Zarins, M., Tool support for fine-grained software inspection. IEEE Software 20(4): 42-50 (2003). [abstract; paper, via IEEE Explore.]

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Other Publications and Reports

Thakur, A., Lal, A., Lim, J., and Reps, T., PostHat and all that: Attaining most-precise inductive invariants. TR-1790, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, April 2013. [abstract; PDF]
Sharma, T., Thakur, A., and Reps, T., An abstract domain for bit-vector inequalities. TR-1789, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, April 2013. [abstract; PDF]
Harris, W.R., Farley, B., Jha, S., and Reps, T., Programming for a capability system via safety games, TR-1705, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, March 2012. [abstract; PDF]
Prabhu, P., Reps, T., Lal, A., and Kidd, N. Verifying concurrent programs via bounded context-switching and induction. TR-1701, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, November 2011. [abstract; PDF]
Driscoll, E., Thakur, A., Burton, A., and Reps, T., WALi: Nested-word automata. TR-1675r, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, July 2010; revised Sept. 2011. [abstract; PDF]
Lim, J. and Reps, T., BCE: Extracting botnet commands from bot executables. TR-1668, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, February 2010. [abstract; PDF]
Lal, A., Lim, J., and Reps, T., McDash: Refinement-based property verification for machine code. TR-1659, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, June 2009. [abstract; PDF]
Lev-Ami, T., Sagiv, M., Reps, T., and Gulwani, S., Backward analysis for inferring quantified preconditions. Tech. Rep. TR-2007-12-01, Tel Aviv University, Dec. 2007. [PDF]
Kidd, N., Moore, K., Wood, D., and Reps, T., Towards the analysis of transactional software. TR-1624, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, October 2007. [abstract; PDF]
Kidd, N., Reps, T., Dolby, J., and Vaziri, M., Static detection of atomic-set serializability violations. TR-1623, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, October 2007. [abstract; PDF]
Kidd, N., Lal, A., and Reps, T., Advanced querying for property checking. TR-1621, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, October 2007. [abstract; PDF]
Reps, T., Sagiv, M., and Bauer, J., An Appreciation of the Work of Reinhard Wilhelm. In Program Analysis and Compilation, Theory and Practice: Essays Dedicated to Reinhard Wilhelm, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4444, Springer-Verlag, 2007.
Lal, A., Touili, T., Kidd, N., and Reps, T. Weighted pushdown systems and weighted transducers. TR-1581, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, Oct. 2006. [abstract; PDF]
Balakrishnan, G., Reps, T., Kidd, N., Lal, A., Lim, J., Melski, D., Gruian, R., Yong, S., Chen, C.-H., and Teitelbaum, T., Model checking x86 executables with CodeSurfer/x86 and WPDS++. In Proc. Workshop on the Evaluation of Software Defect Detection Tools, June 2005.
Yahav, E., Pnueli, A., Reps, T., and Sagiv, M., Automatic verification of temporal heap properties. April 2004.
Yahav, E., Reps, T., and Sagiv, M., LTL model checking for systems with unbounded number of dynamically created threads and objects. TR-1424, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, March 2001. [abstract; PostScript; PDF]
Chandra, S. and Reps, T., Physical type checking for C. Bell Labs. Tech. Rep. BL011350-990302-04, Lucent Technologies, Inc., Naperville, IL, Mar. 1999. [abstract; PostScript; PDF]
Siff, M., Chandra, S., Ball, T., Kunchithapadam, K., and Reps, T., Coping with type casts in C. Bell Labs. Tech. Rep. BL0113590-990202-03, Lucent Technologies, Inc., Naperville, IL, Feb. 1999. [abstract; PostScript; PDF]
Clarke, E.M., Fujita, M., Rajan, P.S., Reps, T., Shankar, S., and Teitelbaum, T., Program slicing for design automation: An automatic technique for speeding-up hardware design, simulation, testing, and verification. Unpublished report, October 1998. [abstract; paper]
Melski, D. and Reps, T., Interprocedural path profiling. TR-1382, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, September 1998. [abstract; PostScript; PDF]
Reps, T., Program analysis via graph reachability. TR-1386, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, August 1998. [abstract; PostScript; PDF; talk: Powerpoint]
Mueller, H., Reps, T., and Snelting, G. (eds.), Program comprehension and software reengineering. Dagstuhl Seminar Report, International Conference and Research Center for Computer Science (IBFI), Schloss Dagstuhl, Wadern, Germany, 1998. dag9810.ps
The Wisconsin Program-Slicing Tool 1.0, Reference Manual. Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, August 1997. slicing-manual.ps
Das, M. and Reps, T. BTA termination using CFL-reachability. TR-1329, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, November 1996.
Horwitz, S., Reps, T., and Sagiv, M., Demand interprocedural dataflow analysis. TR-1283, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, August 1995. tr1283r.ps
Reps, T., Sagiv, M., and Wilhelm, R., Solving shape-analysis problems in languages with destructive updating. TR-1276, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, July 1995. tr1276.ps
Reps, T., Sagiv, M., and Horwitz S., Interprocedural dataflow analysis via graph reachability. TR 94-14, Datalogisk Institut, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, April 1994. diku-tr94-14.ps
Reps, T., The Wisconsin Program-Integration System Reference Manual: Release 2.0. Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, July 1993. manual.2.0.ps
Ball, T., and Horwitz. S., Slicing Programs with Arbitrary Control Flow. TR-92-1128, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, December 1992. tr-92-1128.ps.
Klint, P., Reps, T., and Snelting, G. (eds.), Programming environments. Dagstuhl Seminar Report 34, International Conference and Research Center for Computer Science (IBFI), Schloss Dagstuhl, Wadern, Germany, 1992.
Ball, T., and Horwitz. S., Constructing Control Flow from Control Dependence. TR-92-1091, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, June 1992. tr-92-1091.ps.
Binkley, D., Horwitz, S., and Reps, T., Identifying semantic differences in programs with procedures (Extended abstract). Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, September 1991.
Ramalingam, G. and Reps, T., New programs from old. TR-1057, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, November 1991. [paper; latest version]
Ball, T., Horwitz, S., and Reps, T., Correctness of an algorithm for reconstituting a program from a dependence graph. TR-947, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, July 1990.
Ramalingam, G. and Reps, T., Semantics of program representation graphs. TR-900, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, December 1989. [paper]
Binkley, D., Horwitz, S., and Reps, T., The multi-procedure equivalence theorem. TR-890, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, November 1989. [paper]
Yang, W., Horwitz, S. and Reps, T. Detecting program components with equivalent behaviors. TR-840, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, April 1989. tr840.ps
Reps, T. Demonstration of a prototype tool for program integration. TR-819, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, January 1989. [paper]

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Software

Reps, T., Bricker, T., Rosay, G., et al., The Wisconsin Program-Integration System. Release 0.5, April 1990; Release 1.0, April 1992. Release 2.0, July 1993. Licensed to 9 sites.
Reps, T., Rosay, G., and Horwitz, S., The Wisconsin Program-Slicing Tool. Release 1.0, August 1997.
Kidd, N., Reps, T., Melski, D., and Lal, A., WPDS++: A C++ Library for Weighted Pushdown Systems, 2004. (Download software from here.)
Kidd, N., Lal, A., and Reps, T., WALi: The Weighted Automaton Library, December 2007. (Download software from here.)
Driscoll, E., Thakur, A., and Reps, T., OpenNWA: A Nested-Word Automaton Library, March 2012. (Download software from here.)

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