Technological and business changes influence the evolution of software systems. When this happens, the software artifacts may need to be adapted to the changes. This need is rapidl...
Database appliances offer fully integrated hardware, storage, operating system, database, and related software in a single package. Database appliances have a relatively long hist...
This paper investigates methods to locate system resources, such as expensive hardware or software modules, to provide the most effective cost / performance tradeoffs in a torus p...
Although cryptographic algorithms are designed to resist at least thousands of years of cryptoanalysis, implementing them with either software or hardware usually leaks additional...
Cryptographic algorithms are more efficiently implemented in custom hardware than in software running on general-purpose processors. However, systems which use hardware implementat...