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ISSTA
2009
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Analyzing singularity channel contracts
This paper presents techniques for analyzing channel contract specifications in Microsoft Research’s Singularity operating system. A channel contract is a state machine that sp...
Zachary Stengel, Tevfik Bultan
WOSP
2004
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Early performance testing of distributed software applications
Performance characteristics, such as response time, throughput and scalability, are key quality attributes of distributed applications. Current practice, however, rarely applies s...
Giovanni Denaro, Andrea Polini, Wolfgang Emmerich
PEPM
2010
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Context-sensitive analysis of obfuscated x86 executables
A method for context-sensitive analysis of binaries that may have obfuscated procedure call and return operations is presented. Such binaries may use operators to directly manipul...
Arun Lakhotia, Davidson R. Boccardo, Anshuman Sing...
SAC
2009
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Open source vs. closed source software: towards measuring security
The increasing availability and deployment of open source software in personal and commercial environments makes open source software highly appealing for hackers, and others who ...
Guido Schryen, Rouven Kadura
SIGSOFT
2005
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Towards a unified formal model for supporting mechanisms of dynamic component update
The continuous requirements of evolving a delivered software system and the rising cost of shutting down a running software system are forcing researchers and practitioners to fin...
Junrong Shen, Xi Sun, Gang Huang, Wenpin Jiao, Yan...