Spyware infections are becoming extremely pervasive, posing a grave threat to Internet users’ privacy. Control of such an epidemic is increasingly difficult for the existing def...
In this paper, we describe the challenges of prototyping a reference application on System S, a distributed stream processing middleware under development at IBM Research. With a ...
Kun-Lung Wu, Philip S. Yu, Bugra Gedik, Kirsten Hi...
Background: Hydrophobins are fungal proteins that can turn into amphipathic membranes at hydrophilic/hydrophobic interfaces by self-assembly. The assemblages by Class I hydrophobi...
In a multi-programmed computing environment, threads of execution exhibit different runtime characteristics and hardware resource requirements. Not only do the behaviors of distin...
This paper addresses issues involved when an architect explore alternative designs including non-functional requirements; in our approach, non-functional requirements are expresse...
Lihua Xu, Scott A. Hendrickson, Eric Hettwer, Hada...