Given the central role that C continues to play in systems software, and the difficulty of
writing safe and correct C code, it remains a grand challenge to develop effective formal …

Systems code often requires fine-grained control over memory layout and pointers,
expressed using low-level (eg, bitwise) operations on pointer values. Since these operations …

In this paper we show how the runtime complexity of imperative programs can be analysed
fully automatically by a transformation to term rewrite systems, the complexity of which can …

In this paper, we aim to contribute to the knowledge about how imperative C functions can
be transformed to Maude functional and system modules respectively. Maude is a formal …

Formal verification is a promising technique to ensure the reliability of low-level programs
like operating systems and hypervisors, since it can show the absence of whole classes of …

This paper reviews briefly the literature on formal verification of C software. Most existing C
software model checkers and automatic theorem provers deal well only with small size code …

We describe a novel approach to program verification and its application to verification of C
programs, where properties are expressed in matching logic. The general approach is …

WebAssembly is the first new programming language to be supported natively by all major
Web browsers since JavaScript. It is designed to be a natural low-level compilation target for …

As computer programs and systems get larger and more complex, the conventional method
of ensuring system correctness by feeding it input data and analyzing the output becomes …

Building program verification tools for real-world languages is hard. An operational
semantics serves as the trusted model of a programming language, acting both as …