Abstract. More and more aspects of concurrency and concurrent programming are becoming part of mainstream programming and software engineering, as a result of several factors, such...
Design defects come from poor design choices and have the effect of degrading the quality of object-oriented designs. Therefore, they present opportunities for improvements. Howev...
We describe the design and implementation of FFE/x86 (File-Format Extractor for x86), an analysis tool that works on stripped executables (i.e., neither source code nor debugging ...
As the complexity of computing systems steadily increases, self-managing systems – as Autonomic Computing Systems (ACS) proposed by IBM – are an adequate approach to minimize ...
Buffer overflows have been the most common form of security vulnerability in the past decade. A number of techniques have been proposed to address such attacks. Some are limited t...