Fast and effective distribution of software updates (a.k.a. patches) to millions of Internet users has evolved into a critical task over the last years. In this paper, we characte...
Christos Gkantsidis, Thomas Karagiannis, Milan Voj...
This paper proposes an original model of the execution time of assembly instructions in superscalar architectures. The approach is based on a rigorous mathematical model and provi...
William Fornaciari, Vito Trianni, Carlo Brandolese...
Background: The number of reported empirical studies of Open Source Software (OSS) has continuously been increasing. However, there has been no effort to systematically review the ...
This paper reports our experience on the development of a design-for-safety (DFS) workbench called Risk Assessment and Management Environment (RAME) for microelectronic avionics s...
Kam S. Tso, Ann T. Tai, Savio N. Chau, Leon Alkala...
Background: The identification of local similarities between two protein structures can provide clues of a common function. Many different methods exist for searching for similar ...