: The public telephone network has been evolving from manually switched wires carrying analog encoded voice of the 19th century to an automatically switched grid of copper-wired, f...
Instruction-set randomization (ISR) is a technique based on randomizing the "language" understood by a system to protect it from code-injection attacks. Such attacks wer...
Thread-level speculation provides architectural support to aggressively run hard-to-analyze code in parallel. As speculative tasks run concurrently, they generate unsafe or specul...
A new generation of distributed systems and applications rely on the cooperation of diverse user populations motivated by self-interest. While they can utilize “reputation syste...
Gayatri Swamynathan, Ben Y. Zhao, Kevin C. Almerot...
Abstract. A self-managed system is both self-assembling and selfhealing. Service-oriented Computing (SoC) architectures, such as a Web Services Architecture (WS-A) illustrate a hig...