Within a long-term distributed systems project we repeatedly stumbled across the well-known yet difficult question to either implement from scratch or comprehend and adapt existin...
There are many difficulties associated with developing correct multithreaded software, and many of the activities that are simple for single threaded software are exceptionally ha...
Test-driven development (TDD) is a software development practice that has been used sporadically for decades. With this practice, a software engineer cycles minute-by-minute betwee...
Nachiappan Nagappan, E. Michael Maximilien, Thirum...
Although cryptographic protocols are typically analyzed in isolation, they are used in combinations. If a protocol was analyzed alone and shown to meet some security goals, will it...
The assumption of task independence has long been consubstantial with the formulation of many schedulability analysis techniques. That assumption is evidently advantageous for the...