We introduce the problem of query decomposition, where we are given a query and a document retrieval system, and we want to produce a small set of queries whose union of resulting...
Francesco Bonchi, Carlos Castillo, Debora Donato, ...
Transactional requirements, from new application domains and execution environments, are varying and may exceed traditional ACID properties. We believe that transactional middlewa...
Anna-Brith Arntsen, Marts Mortensen, Randi Karlsen...
In a Multi-Variant Execution Environment (MVEE), several slightly different versions of the same program are executed in lockstep. While this is done, a monitor compares the behav...
Babak Salamat, Todd Jackson, Andreas Gal, Michael ...
Cross-site scripting flaws have now surpassed buffer overflows as the world’s most common publicly-reported security vulnerability. In recent years, browser vendors and resea...
This paper introduces GC assertions, a system interface that programmers can use to check for errors, such as data structure invariant violations, and to diagnose performance prob...