Jails, Sandboxes and other isolation mechanisms limit the damage from untrusted programs by reducing a process’s privileges to the minimum. Sandboxing is designed to thwart such...
Programming efficiency of heterogeneous concurrent systems is limited by the use of lock-based synchronization mechanisms. Transactional memories can greatly improve the programmi...
Identifiers represent an important source of information for programmers understanding and maintaining a system. Self-documenting identifiers reduce the time and effort necessa...
Medical histories provide a rich resource for diagnoses and treatment. Similarly, consumers’ blog postings on health-related topics offer unique data for medical researchers, pr...
In SoC designs, limited test access to internal cores, lowcost external tester’s lack of accuracy and slow frequencies make application of at-speed tests impractical. Therefore,...