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ICAC
2009
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Applying adaptation design patterns
Dynamic adaptation may be used to prevent software downtime while new requirements and responses to environmental conditions are incorporated into the system. Previously, we studi...
Andres J. Ramirez, Betty H. C. Cheng
SEFM
2009
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Specifying Interacting Components with Coordinated Concurrent Scenarios
Abstract. We introduce a visual notation for local specification of concurrent components based on message sequence charts (MSCs). Each component is a finite-state machine whose ...
Prakash Chandrasekaran, Madhavan Mukund
WCRE
2009
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
NTrace: Function Boundary Tracing for Windows on IA-32
—For a long time, dynamic tracing has been an enabling technique for reverse engineering tools. Tracing can not only be used to record the control flow of a particular component...
Johannes Passing, Alexander Schmidt, Martin von L&...
WCRE
2009
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Automatic Static Unpacking of Malware Binaries
—Current malware is often transmitted in packed or encrypted form to prevent examination by anti-virus software. To analyze new malware, researchers typically resort to dynamic c...
Kevin Coogan, Saumya K. Debray, Tasneem Kaochar, G...
KBSE
2009
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Symbolic Deadlock Analysis in Concurrent Libraries and Their Clients
Methods in object-oriented concurrent libraries hide internal synchronization details. However, information hiding may result in clients causing thread safety violations by invoki...
Jyotirmoy V. Deshmukh, E. Allen Emerson, Sriram Sa...