Patching is a critical security service that keeps computer systems up to date and defends against security threats. Existing patching systems all require running systems. With th...
Cloud computing has seen tremendous growth, particularly for commercial web applications. The on-demand, pay-as-you-go model creates a flexible and cost-effective means to access c...
Keith R. Jackson, Lavanya Ramakrishnan, Krishna Mu...
Abstract--The second round of the NIST-run public competition is underway to find a new hash algorithm(s) for inclusion in the NIST Secure Hash Standard (SHA-3). This paper present...
Brian Baldwin, Andrew Byrne, Liang Lu, Mark Hamilt...
We consider the following fundamental scheduling problem. The input consists of n jobs to be scheduled on a set of machines of bounded capacities. Each job is associated with a re...
Optical lithography is a critical step in the semiconductor manufacturing process, and one key problem is the design of the photomask for a particular circuit pattern, given the o...