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.
  
  Filet-o-Fish: practical and dependable domain-specific languages for OS development, in: Programming Languages and Operating Systems (PLOS), 2009, pp. 51–55.
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  Coq: The World's Best Macro Assembler?, in: PPDP, Madrid, Spain, ACM, 2013, pp. 13–24.
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• 6G. 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.
• 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 2.6, in: ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, June 2014, vol. 32, n^o 2, pp. 4:1–4:40.

Publications of the year

Articles in International Peer-Reviewed Journals

• 10P.-E. Dagand, N. Tabareau, É. Tanter.
  
  Foundations of Dependent Interoperability, in: Journal of Functional Programming, March 2018, vol. 28. [ DOI : 10.1017/S0956796818000011 ]
  
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• 11K. Narasimhan, C. Reichenbach, J. Lawall.
  
  Cleaning up Copy-Paste Clones with Interactive Merging, in: Journal of Automated Software Engineering, August 2018, vol. 25, n^o 3, pp. 627-673. [ DOI : 10.1007/s10515-018-0238-5 ]
  
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International Conferences with Proceedings

• 12J.-J. Bai, Y.-P. Wang, J. Lawall, S.-M. Hu.
  
  DSAC: Effective Static Analysis of Sleep-in-Atomic-Context Bugs in Kernel Modules, in: 2018 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, Boston, MA, United States, July 2018.
  
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• 13J. Bouron, S. Chevalley, B. Lepers, W. Zwaenepoel, R. Gouicem, J. Lawall, G. Muller, J. Sopena.
  
  The Battle of the Schedulers: FreeBSD ULE vs. Linux CFS, in: 2018 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, Boston, MA, United States, July 2018.
  
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• 14J. Lawall, G. Muller.
  
  Coccinelle: 10 Years of Automated Evolution in the Linux Kernel, in: 2018 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, Boston, MA, United States, July 2018.
  
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• 15D. Mercadier, P.-É. Dagand, L. Lacassagne, G. Muller.
  
  Usuba, Optimizing & Trustworthy Bitslicing Compiler, in: WPMVP’18 - Workshop on Programming Models for SIMD/Vector Processing, Vienna, Austria, ACM Press, February 2018. [ DOI : 10.1145/3178433.3178437 ]
  
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Other Publications

• 16M. Martone, L. Iapichino, N. Hammer, J. Lawall.
  
  Automating Data Layout Conversion in a Large Cosmological Simulation Code, September 2018, CoSaS 2018 - International Symposium on Computational Science at Scale, Poster.
  
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