Many parallel applications exhibit unpredictable communication between threads, leading to contention for shared objects. The choice of contention management strategy impacts stro...
Ryan Johnson, Radu Stoica, Anastasia Ailamaki, Tod...
Many aspect-oriented middleware platforms support run-time aspect weaving, but do not support coordinating distributed changes to a set of aspects at run-time. A distributed chang...
Eddy Truyen, Nico Janssens, Frans Sanen, Wouter Jo...
Proving that particular methods within a code base are functionally pure--deterministic and side-effect free--would aid verification of security properties including function inve...
Matthew Finifter, Adrian Mettler, Naveen Sastry, D...
This paper reconsiders the threat posed by Shacham's "return-oriented programming" -- a technique by which WX-style hardware protections are evaded via carefully cr...
Erik Buchanan, Ryan Roemer, Hovav Shacham, Stefan ...
Writing reliable software is difficult. It becomes even more difficult when writing scientific software involving floating-point numbers. Computers provide numbers with limite...