Software systems are constantly changing. Patches to fix bugs and patches to add features are all too common. Every change risks breaking a previously working system. Hence admini...
A program is defined to be noninterferent if its outputs cannot be influenced by inputs at a higher security level than their own. Various researchers have demonstrated how this pr...
ion. First described in RFC 707,1 with implementation approaches and details later provided by Andrew Birrell and Bruce Nelson,2 RPC has influenced distributed systems research and...
Run-time conflicts can affect even the most rigorously tested software systems. A reliance on execution-based testing makes it prohibitively costly to test every possible interac...
Michael F. Spear, Tom Roeder, Orion Hodson, Galen ...
Contemporary software systems are composed of many components, which, in general, undergo phased and incremental development. In order to facilitate the corresponding construction ...