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...
The principle of information hiding has been very influential in software engineering since its inception in 1972. This principle prescribes that software modules hide implementat...
Cleidson R. B. de Souza, David F. Redmiles, Li-Te ...
Web services (WS) received significant attention recently because services can be searched, bound, and executed at runtime over the Internet. This paper proposes a dynamic reconfi...
Wei-Tek Tsai, Weiwei Song, Raymond A. Paul, Zhibin...
Existing mandatory access control systems for operating systems are difficult to use. We identify several principles for designing usable access control systems and introduce the...
Commodity operating systems entrusted with securing sensitive data are remarkably large and complex, and consequently, frequently prone to compromise. To address this limitation, ...
Xiaoxin Chen, Tal Garfinkel, E. Christopher Lewis,...