Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks are a major concern for modern distributed applications. They exploit weakness in the software in order to make it unavailable to well-behaved user...
In modern software systems, programs are obtained by dynamically assembling components. This has made it necessary to subject component providers to access-control restrictions. W...
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Exception handling mechanisms have been around for more than 30 years. Nevertheless, modern exceptions systems are not very different from the early models. Programming languages ...
Current languages allow a programmer to describe an interface only by enumerating its parts, possibly including other interfaces wholesale. Such languages cannot express relations...
The Arena modeling system from Systems Modeling Corporation is a flexible and powerful tool that allows analysts to create animated simulation models that accurately represent vir...