Bibliography

Major publications by the team in recent years

• 1T. Bourke, L. Brun, P. Dagand, X. Leroy, M. Pouzet, L. Rieg.
  A formally verified compiler for Lustre, in: PLDI, 2017, pp. 586–601.
• 2J. Brunel, D. Doligez, R. R. Hansen, J. L. Lawall, G. Muller.
  A foundation for flow-based program matching using temporal logic and model checking, in: POPL, Savannah, GA, USA, ACM, January 2009, pp. 114–126.
• 3L. Burgy, L. Réveillère, J. L. Lawall, G. Muller.
  Zebu: A Language-Based Approach for Network Protocol Message Processing, in: IEEE Trans. Software Eng., 2011, vol. 37, n^o 4, pp. 575-591.
• 4P. Dagand, N. Tabareau, É. Tanter.
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• 7G. Muller, J. L. Lawall, H. Duchesne.
  A Framework for Simplifying the Development of Kernel Schedulers: Design and Performance Evaluation, in: HASE - High Assurance Systems Engineering Conference, Heidelberg, Germany, IEEE, October 2005, pp. 56–65.
• 8F. Mérillon, L. Réveillère, C. Consel, R. Marlet, G. Muller.
  Devil: An IDL for hardware programming, in: Proceedings of the Fourth Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), San Diego, California, USENIX Association, October 2000, pp. 17–30.
• 9Y. Padioleau, J. L. Lawall, R. R. Hansen, G. Muller.
  Documenting and Automating Collateral Evolutions in Linux Device Drivers, in: EuroSys, Glasgow, Scotland, March 2008, pp. 247–260.
• 10N. Palix, G. Thomas, S. Saha, C. Calvès, J. L. Lawall, G. Muller.
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Publications of the year

Articles in International Peer-Reviewed Journals

• 11T. Hoang, J. L. Lawall, Y. Tian, R. J. Oentaryo, D. Lo.
  PatchNet: Hierarchical Deep Learning-Based Stable Patch Identification for the Linux Kernel, in: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, November 2019, 17 p. [ DOI : 10.1109/TSE.2019.2952614 ]
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• 12G. Lena Cota, S. Ben Mokhtar, G. Gianini, E. Damiani, J. L. Lawall, G. Muller, L. Brunie.
  RACOON++: A Semi-Automatic Framework for the Selfishness-Aware Design of Cooperative Systems, in: IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, July 2019, vol. 16, n^o 4, pp. 635-650. [ DOI : 10.1109/TDSC.2017.2706286 ]
  https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02196805

International Conferences with Proceedings

• 13J.-J. Bai, J. L. Lawall, Q.-L. Chen, S.-M. Hu.
  Effective Static Analysis of Concurrency Use-After-Free Bugs in Linux Device Drivers Effective Static Analysis of Concurrency Use-After-Free Bugs in Linux Device Drivers, in: 2019 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, Renton, Washington, United States, July 2019.
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• 14J.-J. Bai, J. L. Lawall, W. Tan, S.-M. Hu.
  DCNS: Automated Detection of Conservative Non-Sleep Defects in the Linux Kernel, in: ASPLOS 2019 - The 24th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, Providence, Rhode Island, United States, ACM, April 2019, pp. 287-299. [ DOI : 10.1145/3297858.3304065 ]
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• 15B. Bui, D. Mvondo, B. Teabe, K. Jiokeng, L. Wapet, A. Tchana, G. Thomas, D. Hagimont, G. Muller, N. Depalma.
  When eXtended Para-Virtualization (XPV) meets NUMA, in: EUROSYS 2019: 14th European Conference on Computer Systems, Dresde, Germany, ACM Press, 2019, 7 p. [ DOI : 10.1145/3302424.3303960 ]
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• 16D. Carver, R. Gouicem, J.-P. Lozi, J. Sopena, B. Lepers, W. Zwaenepoel, N. Palix, J. L. Lawall, G. Muller.
  Fork/Wait and Multicore Frequency Scaling: a Generational Clash, in: 10th Workshop on Programming Languages and Operating Systems, Huntsville, Canada, ACM Press, October 2019, pp. 53-59. [ DOI : 10.1145/3365137.3365400 ]
  https://hal.inria.fr/hal-02349987
• 17Q.-L. Chen, J.-J. Bai, Z.-M. Jiang, J. L. Lawall, S.-M. Hu.
  Detecting Data Races Caused by Inconsistent Lock Protection in Device Drivers, in: SANER 2019 - 26th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering, Hangzhou, China, February 2019.
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• 18C. Courtaud, J. Sopena, G. Muller, D. Gracia.
  Improving Prediction Accuracy of Memory Interferences for Multicore Platforms, in: RTSS 2019 - 40th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, Hong-Kong, China, IEEE, December 2019.
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• 19T. Hoang, J. L. Lawall, R. J. Oentaryo, Y. Tian, D. Lo.
  PatchNet: A Tool for Deep Patch Classification, in: ICSE-Companion 2019 - IEEE/ACM 41st International Conference on Software Engineering, Montreal, Canada, IEEE, May 2019, pp. 83-86. [ DOI : 10.1109/ICSE-Companion.2019.00044 ]
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• 20Z.-M. Jiang, J.-J. Bai, J. L. Lawall, S.-M. Hu.
  Fuzzing Error Handling Code in Device Drivers Based on Software Fault Injection, in: ISSRE 2019 - The 30th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, Berlin, Germany, October 2019. [ DOI : 10.1109/ISSRE.2019.00022 ]
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• 21H. J. Kang, F. Thung, J. L. Lawall, G. Muller, L. Jiang, D. Lo.
  Semantic Patches for Java Program Transformation, in: 33rd European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2019), London, United Kingdom, Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Schloss Dagstuhl–Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik, July 2019, vol. 134, pp. 22:1–22:27. [ DOI : 10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2019.22 ]
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• 22F. Laniel, D. Carver, J. Sopena, F. Wajsburt, J. Lejeune, M. Shapiro.
  Highlighting the Container Memory Consolidation Problems in Linux, in: 2019 IEEE 18th International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA), Cambridge, United States, IEEE, September 2019, pp. 1-4. [ DOI : 10.1109/NCA.2019.8935034 ]
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• 23D. Mercadier, P.-É. Dagand.
  Usuba: high-throughput and constant-time ciphers, by construction, in: PLDI 2019 - 40th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, Phoenix, United States, ACM Press, June 2019, pp. 157-173. [ DOI : 10.1145/3314221.3314636 ]
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Internal Reports

• 24H. J. Kang, F. Thung, J. L. Lawall, G. Muller, L. Jiang, D. Lo.
  Automating Program Transformation for Java Using Semantic Patches, Inria Paris, February 2019, n^o RR-9256.
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