Bibliography

Major publications by the team in recent years

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  A foundation for flow-based program matching using temporal logic and model checking, in: POPL, Savannah, GA, USA, ACM, January 2009, pp. 114–126.
• 2L. 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.
• 3P.-É. Dagand, A. Baumann, T. Roscoe.
  
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• 4A. Kennedy, N. Benton, J. B. Jensen, P.-É. Dagand.
  
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• 6G. Muller, J. L. Lawall, H. Duchesne.
  
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• 7F. 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.
• 8Y. 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.
• 9N. Palix, G. Thomas, S. Saha, C. Calvès, J. L. Lawall, G. Muller.
  
  Faults in Linux: Ten Years Later, in: ASPLOS, Newport Beach, CA, USA, ACM, March 2011, pp. 305–318.

Publications of the year

Doctoral Dissertations and Habilitation Theses

• 10K. Attouchi.
  
  Managing Resource Sharing Conflicts in an Open Embedded Software Environment, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, July 2014.
  
  https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01088028
• 11L. Guo.
  
  Boost the Reliability of the Linux Kernel: Debugging Kernel Oopses, UPMC, Paris Sorbonne, December 2014.
  
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• 12J.-P. Lozi.
  
  Towards more scalable mutual exclusion for multicore architectures, Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris VI, July 2014.
  
  https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01067244

Articles in International Peer-Reviewed Journals

• 13T. F. Bissyandé, L. Réveillère, J. Lawall, G. Muller.
  
  Ahead of Time Static Analysis for Automatic Generation of Debugging Interfaces to the Linux Kernel, in: Automated Software Engineering, May 2014, pp. 1-39. [ DOI : 10.1007/s10515-014-0152-4 ]
  
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• 14M. C. Olesen, R. R. Hansen, J. L. Lawall, N. Palix.
  
  Coccinelle: Tool support for automated CERT C Secure Coding Standard certification, in: Science of Computer Programming, October 2014, vol. 91, n^o B, pp. 141–160.
  
  https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01096185

Invited Conferences

• 16K. Attouchi, G. Thomas, A. Bottaro, G. Muller.
  
  Memory Monitoring in a Multi-tenant OSGi Execution Environment, in: CBSE '14 -17th international ACM Sigsoft symposium on Component-based software engineering, Marcq-en-Baroeul, France, ACM, June 2014. [ DOI : 10.1145/2602458.2602467 ]
  
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• 17J. L. Lawall.
  
  Coccinelle: reducing the barriers to modularization in a large C code base, in: MODULARITY - 13th International Conference on Modularity, Lugano, Switzerland, W. Binder, E. Ernst, A. Peternier, R. Hirschfeld (editors), ACM, April 2014, pp. 5-6. [ DOI : 10.1145/2584469.2584661 ]
  
  https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01001894

International Conferences with Proceedings

• 18F. David, G. Thomas, J. Lawall, G. Muller.
  
  Continuously Measuring Critical Section Pressure with the Free-Lunch Profiler, in: OOPSLA 2014, Portland, Oregon, United States, ACM, October 2014. [ DOI : 10.1145/2660193.2660210 ]
  
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• 19L. Guo, J. Lawall, G. Muller.
  
  Oops! Where did that code snippet come from?, in: 11th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories, Hyderabad, India, P. T. Devanbu, S. Kim, M. Pinzger (editors), ACM, May 2014, pp. 52-61. [ DOI : 10.1145/2597073.2597094 ]
  
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• 20K. Pavneet Singh, F. Thung, D. Lo, J. Lawall.
  
  An Empirical Study on the Adequacy of Testing in Open Source Projects, in: 21st Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, Jeju, South Korea, December 2014.
  
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• 21R. k. Saha, J. L. Lawall, S. Khurshid, D. E. Perry.
  
  On the Effectiveness of Information Retrieval Based Bug Localization for C Programs, in: ICSME 2014 - 30th International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution, Victoria, Canada, IEEE, September 2014, pp. 161-170. [ DOI : 10.1109/ICSME.2014.38 ]
  
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• 22Y. Tian, D. Lo, J. Lawall.
  
  Automated construction of a software-specific word similarity database, in: 2014 Software Evolution Week - IEEE Conference on Software Maintenance, Reengineering, and Reverse Engineering, CSMR-WCRE, Antwerp, Belgium, IEEE, February 2014, pp. 44-53.
  
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• 23Y. Tian, D. Lo, J. Lawall.
  
  SEWordSim: software-specific word similarity database, in: ICSE'14 - 36th International Conference on Software Engineering, Companion Proceedings, Hyderabad, India, P. Jalote, L. C. Briand, A. van der Hoek (editors), ACM/IEEE, June 2014, pp. 568-571. [ DOI : 10.1145/2591062.2591071 ]
  
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• 24S. Wang, D. Lo, J. Lawall.
  
  Compositional Vector Space Models for Improved Bug Localization, in: 30th International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution, Victoria, Canada, IEEE, September 2014, pp. 171-180.
  
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Internal Reports

• 25K. Attouchi, G. Thomas, A. Bottaro, J. L. Lawall, G. Muller.
  
  Incinerator - Eliminating Stale References in Dynamic OSGi Applications, Inria, February 2014, n^o RR-8485, 22 p.
  
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• 26F. David, G. Thomas, J. Lawall, G. Muller.
  
  Continuously Measuring Critical Section Pressure with the Free Lunch Profiler, Inria Whisper, March 2014, n^o RR-8486, 24 p.
  
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Other Publications

• 27Y. Tian, D. Lo, J. Lawall.
  
  SEWordSim: software-specific word similarity database, ACM, May 2014, pp. 568-571, ICSE Companion 2014 - Companion Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Software Engineering . [ DOI : 10.1145/2591062.2591071 ]
  
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