The frequent changes during the development and usage of large software systems often lead to a loss of architectural quality which hampers the implementation of further changes a...
This work presents the core ideas for an approach that enables index tuning with no human intervention at all. SQL statements submitted to the database are monitored and indices a...
Abstract—Change coupling is the implicit relationship between two or more software artifacts that have been observed to frequently change together during the evolution of a softw...
Web Services (WS hereafter) Security is a crucial aspect for technologies based on this paradigm to be completely adopted by the industry. As a consequence, a lot of initiatives h...
Rootkits have become a growing concern in cyber-security. Typically, they exploit kernel vulnerabilities to gain root privileges of a system and conceal malware’s activities fro...