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	<p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            Automated formal synthesis of provably safe digital controllers for continuous plants </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Alessandro Abate&#x201a; Iury Bessa&#x201a; Lucas Cordeiro&#x201a; Cristina David&#x201a; Pascal Kesseli&#x201a; Daniel Kroening and Elizabeth Polgreen  </em> </p>
	
	<p class="publicationDetails"> 
        In <em>Acta Informatica</em>.
        December,
            2019.
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	<p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            Program Synthesis for Program Analysis </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Cristina David&#x201a; Pascal Kesseli&#x201a; Daniel Kroening and Matt Lewis  </em> </p>
	
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        In <em>ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems</em>.
        
            Vol. 40.
        
                Pages 1&#x2212;45.
            2018.
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	<p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            Counterexample Guided Inductive Synthesis Modulo Theories </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Alessandro Abate&#x201a; Cristina David&#x201a; Pascal Kesseli&#x201a; Daniel Kroening and Elizabeth Polgreen  </em> </p>
	
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            In Hana Chockler and Georg Weissenbacher, editors,
             
            <em>
            Computer Aided Verification</em>.
        
                Pages 270&#x2013;288.
            Cham.
        2018.
        Springer International Publishing.
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	<p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            JBMC: A Bounded Model Checking Tool for Verifying Java Bytecode </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Lucas Cordeiro&#x201a; Pascal Kesseli&#x201a; Daniel Kroening&#x201a; Peter Schrammel and Marek Trtik  </em> </p>
	
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            In Hana Chockler and Georg Weissenbacher, editors,
             
            <em>
            Computer Aided Verification</em>.
        
                Pages 183&#x2013;190.
            Cham.
        2018.
        Springer International Publishing.
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            Automated Formal Synthesis of Digital Controllers for State&#x2212;Space Physical Plants </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Alessandro Abate&#x201a; Iury Bessa&#x201a; Dario Cattaruzza&#x201a; Lucas Cordeiro&#x201a; Cristina David&#x201a; Pascal Kesseli&#x201a; Daniel Kroening and Elizabeth Polgreen  </em> </p>
	
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            In Rupak Majumdar and Viktor Kun&#x010d;ak, editors,
             
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            Computer Aided Verification: 29th International Conference&#x201a; CAV 2017&#x201a; Heidelberg&#x201a; Germany&#x201a; July 24&#x2212;28&#x201a; 2017&#x201a; Proceedings&#x201a; Part I</em>.
        
                Pages 462&#x2013;482.
            Springer International Publishing, Cham.
        2017.
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	<p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            Kayak: Safe Semantic Refactoring to Java Streams </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Cristina David&#x201a; Pascal Kesseli and Daniel Kroening  </em> </p>
	
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        In <em>CoRR</em>.
        
            Vol. abs/1712.07388.
        2017.
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	<p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            DSSynth: an automated digital controller synthesis tool for physical plants </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Alessandro Abate&#x201a; Iury Bessa&#x201a; Dario Cattaruzza&#x201a; Lennon Chaves&#x201a; Lucas C. Cordeiro&#x201a; Cristina David&#x201a; Pascal Kesseli&#x201a; Daniel Kroening and Elizabeth Polgreen  </em> </p>
	
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            In  
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            Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering&#x201a; ASE 2017&#x201a; Urbana&#x201a; IL&#x201a; USA&#x201a; October 30 &#x2212; November 03&#x201a; 2017</em>.
        
                Pages 919&#x2013;924.
            2017.
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	<p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            Sound and Automated Synthesis of Digital Stabilizing Controllers for Continuous Plants </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Alessandro Abate&#x201a; Iury Bessa&#x201a; Dario Cattaruzza&#x201a; Lucas Cordeiro&#x201a; Cristina David&#x201a; Pascal Kesseli and Daniel Kroening  </em> </p>
	
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            In  
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            Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control</em>.
        
                Pages 197&#x2013;206.
            New York&#x201a; NY&#x201a; USA.
        2017.
        ACM.
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	<p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            Assisted Coverage Closure </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Adam Nellis&#x201a; Pascal Kesseli&#x201a; Philippa Ryan Conmy&#x201a; Daniel Kroening&#x201a; Peter Schrammel and Michael Tautschnig  </em> </p>
	
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            In Sanjai Rayadurgam and Oksana Tkachuk, editors,
             
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            NASA Formal Methods: 8th International Symposium&#x201a; NFM 2016&#x201a; Minneapolis&#x201a; MN&#x201a; USA&#x201a; June 7&#x2212;9&#x201a; 2016&#x201a; Proceedings</em>.
        
                Pages 49&#x2013;64.
            Springer International Publishing, Cham.
        2016.
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	<p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            Danger Invariants </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Cristina David&#x201a; Pascal Kesseli&#x201a; Daniel Kroening and Matt Lewis  </em> </p>
	
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            In John Fitzgerald&#x201a; Constance Heitmeyer&#x201a; Stefania Gnesi and Anna Philippou, editors,
             
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            FM 2016: Formal Methods: 21st International Symposium&#x201a; Limassol&#x201a; Cyprus&#x201a; November 9&#x2212;11&#x201a; 2016&#x201a; Proceedings</em>.
        
                Pages 182&#x2013;198.
            Springer International Publishing, Cham.
        2016.
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	<p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            Learning the Language of Error </strong> </p>
	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Martin Chapman&#x201a; Hana Chockler&#x201a; Pascal Kesseli&#x201a; Daniel Kroening&#x201a; Ofer Strichman and Michael Tautschnig  </em> </p>
	
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            In Bernd Finkbeiner&#x201a; Geguang Pu and Lijun Zhang, editors,
             
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            Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis: 13th International Symposium&#x201a; ATVA 2015&#x201a; Shanghai&#x201a; China&#x201a; October 12&#x2212;15&#x201a; 2015&#x201a; Proceedings</em>.
        
                Pages 114&#x2013;130.
            Springer International Publishing, Cham.
        2015.
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