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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 3800)
Part of the book sub series: Programming and Software Engineering (LNPSE)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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About this book
Program analysis is concerned with techniques that automatically determine run-time properties of given programs prior to run-time. It is used for validation in order to ensure that programs serve their intended purpose and in further processing for efficient execution such as in optimizing compilers. Optimal program analysis provides a guarantee about the precision of the computed results.
This monograph, a revised version of the author's habilitation thesis, focusses on optimal flow analysis of sequential and parallel programs. It studies algorithmic properties of various versions of the well-known constant-propagation problem. In order to come to grips with the variants considered, it combines techniques from different areas such as linear algebra, computable ring theory, abstract interpretation, program verification, complexity theory, etc. Combination of techniques is the key to further progress in automatic analysis and constant-propagation allows us to illustrate this point in a theoretical study.
After a general overview, the monograph consists of three essentially self-contained parts that can be read independently of each other. These parts study: a hierarchy of constants in sequential programs, inherent limits of flow analysis of parallel programs, and how to overcome these limits by abandoning a classic atomic execution assumption.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Variations on Constants
Book Subtitle: Flow Analysis of Sequential and Parallel Programs
Authors: Markus Müller-Olm
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/11871743
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-45385-7Published: 02 October 2006
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-45386-4Published: 11 October 2006
Series ISSN: 0302-9743
Series E-ISSN: 1611-3349
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 177
Topics: Theory of Computation, Software Engineering, Logics and Meanings of Programs, Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters