Open source software is often considered to be secure because large developer communities can be leveraged to find and fix security vulnerabilities. Eric Raymond states Linus’ L...
Multiple wireless technologies are converging to run on personal handhelds. The plethora of communication standards next to the cost issues of deeper submicron processing require ...
A. C. H. Ng, J. W. Weijers, Miguel Glassee, Thomas...
Software updates typically require stopping and restarting an application, but many systems cannot afford to halt service, or would prefer not to. Dynamic software updating (DSU) ...
Iulian Neamtiu, Michael W. Hicks, Gareth Stoyle, M...
Fast and effective distribution of software updates (a.k.a. patches) to millions of Internet users has evolved into a critical task over the last years. In this paper, we characte...
Christos Gkantsidis, Thomas Karagiannis, Milan Voj...
Abstract—This paper addresses the problem of execution time estimation for tasks in a software pipeline independent of the application structure or the underlying architecture. A...