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IRE: A Framework For Inductive Reverse Engineering

abstract: Reverse engineering is critical to reasoning about how a system behaves. While complete access to a system inherently allows for perfect analysis, partial access is inherently uncertain. This is the case foran individual agent in a distributed system. Inductive Reverse Engineering (IRE) enables analysis under

such circumstances. IRE does this by producing program spaces consistent with individual input-output examples for a given domain-specific language. Then, IRE intersects those program spaces to produce a generalized program consistent with all examples. IRE, an easy to use framework, allows this domain-specific language to be specified in the form of Theorist s, which produce Theory s, a succinct way of representing the program space.

Programs are often much more complex than simple string transformations. One of the ways in which they are more complex is in the way that they follow a conversation-like behavior, potentially following some underlying protocol. As a result, IRE represents program interactions as Conversations in order to

more correctly model a distributed system. This, for instance, enables IRE to model dynamically captured inputs received from other agents in the distributed system.

While domain-specific knowledge provided by a user is extremely valuable, such information is not always possible. IRE mitigates this by automatically inferring program grammars, allowing it to still perform efficient searches of the program space. It does this by intersecting conversations prior to synthesis in order to understand what portions of conversations are constant.

IRE exists to be a tool that can aid in automatic reverse engineering across numerous domains. Further, IRE aspires to be a centralized location and interface for implementing program synthesis and automatic black box analysis techniques. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Computer Science 2019

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:asu.edu/item:53941
Date January 2019
ContributorsNelson, Connor David (Author), Doupé, Adam (Advisor), Shoshitaishvili, Yan (Committee member), Wang, Ruoyu (Committee member), Arizona State University (Publisher)
Source SetsArizona State University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeMasters Thesis
Format30 pages
Rightshttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

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