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ECCV
2002
Springer
16 years 8 months ago
Transitions of the 3D Medial Axis under a One-Parameter Family of Deformations
The instabilities of the medial axis of a shape under deformations have long been recognized as a major obstacle to its use in recognition and other applications. These instabilit...
Peter J. Giblin, Benjamin B. Kimia
SPAA
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
The weakest failure detector for wait-free dining under eventual weak exclusion
Dining philosophers is a classic scheduling problem for local mutual exclusion on arbitrary conflict graphs. We establish necessary conditions to solve wait-free dining under even...
Srikanth Sastry, Scott M. Pike, Jennifer L. Welch
SIGSOFT
2003
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Protecting C programs from attacks via invalid pointer dereferences
Writes via unchecked pointer dereferences rank high among vulnerabilities most often exploited by malicious code. The most common attacks use an unchecked string copy to cause a b...
Suan Hsi Yong, Susan Horwitz
MICRO
2006
IEEE
124views Hardware» more  MICRO 2006»
16 years 17 days ago
LIFT: A Low-Overhead Practical Information Flow Tracking System for Detecting Security Attacks
Computer security is severely threatened by software vulnerabilities. Prior work shows that information flow tracking (also referred to as taint analysis) is a promising techniqu...
Feng Qin, Cheng Wang, Zhenmin Li, Ho-Seop Kim, Yua...
IMC
2004
ACM
15 years 12 months ago
On scalable attack detection in the network
Current intrusion detection and prevention systems seek to detect a wide class of network intrusions (e.g., DoS attacks, worms, port scans) at network vantage points. Unfortunatel...
Ramana Rao Kompella, Sumeet Singh, George Varghese