Maintenance is the dominant source of downtime at high availability sites. Unfortunately, the dominant mechanism for reducing this downtime, cluster rolling upgrade, has two short...
In a typical content-based image retrieval (CBIR) system, query results are a set of images sorted by feature similarities with respect to the query. However, images with high fea...
Domain Name System (DNS) is the system for the mapping between easily memorizable host names and their IP addresses. Due to its criticality, security extensions to DNS have been p...
Software defects, commonly known as bugs, present a serious challenge for system reliability and dependability. Once a program failure is observed, the debugging activities to loc...
Malicious code is an increasingly important problem that threatens the security of computer systems. The traditional line of defense against malware is composed of malware detecto...