A developing field of interest for the distributed systems and applied cryptography
communities is that of smart contracts: self-executing financial instruments that synchronize …

Bitcoin has been a popular research topic recently. Ethereum (ETH), a second generation of
cryptocurrency, extends Bitcoin's design by offering a Turing-complete programming …

The emergence of the IoT, cloud systems, data centers, and 5G networks is increasing the
demand for a rapid development of new applications and protocols at all levels of the …

This paper presents KJS, the most complete and throughly tested formal semantics of
JavaScript to date. Being executable, KJS has been tested against the ECMAScript 5.1 …

We present a language-independent verification framework that can be instantiated with an
operational semantics to automatically generate a program verifier. The framework treats …

A developing field of interest for the distributed systems and applied cryptography
community is that of smart contracts: self-executing financial instruments that synchronize …

We introduce Gillian, a platform for developing symbolic analysis tools for programming
languages. Here, we focus on the symbolic execution engine at the heart of Gillian, which is …

Matching logic is a logic for specifying and reasoning about structure by means of patterns
and pattern matching. This paper makes two contributions. First, it proposes a sound and …

Validating the correctness of binary lifters is pivotal to gain trust in binary analysis, especially
when used in scenarios where correctness is important. Existing approaches focus on …

A definitional interpreter defines the semantics of an object language in terms of the (well-
known) semantics of a host language, enabling understanding and validation of the …