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DSN
2003
IEEE
14 years 25 days ago
From Crash Tolerance to Authenticated Byzantine Tolerance: A Structured Approach, the Cost and Benefits
Many fault-tolerant group communication middleware systems have been implemented assuming crash failure semantics. While this assumption is not unreasonable, it becomes hard to ju...
Dimane Mpoeleng, Paul D. Ezhilchelvan, Neil A. Spe...
SOCIALCOM
2010
13 years 2 months ago
A Multi-factor Approach to Securing Software on Client Computing Platforms
Protecting the integrity of software platforms, especially in unmanaged consumer computing systems is a difficult problem. Attackers may attempt to execute buffer overflow attacks ...
Raghunathan Srinivasan, Vivek Iyer, Amit Kanitkar,...
WOWMOM
2005
ACM
133views Multimedia» more  WOWMOM 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
A Statistical Matching Approach to Detect Privacy Violation for Trust-Based Collaborations
Distributed trust and reputation management mechanisms are often proposed as a means of providing assurance in dynamic and open environments by enabling principals to building up ...
Mohamed Ahmed, Daniele Quercia, Stephen Hailes
CDC
2009
IEEE
130views Control Systems» more  CDC 2009»
14 years 8 days ago
Modal and transition dwell time computation in switching systems: a set-theoretic approach
We consider a plant the dynamics of which switch among a family of systems. Each of these systems has a single stable equilibrium point. We assume that a constraint region for the...
Franco Blanchini, Daniele Casagrande, Stefano Mian...
ICSE
1998
IEEE-ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Measuring Cognitive Activities in Software Engineering
This paper presents an approach to the study of cognitive activities in collaborative software development. This approach has been developed by a multidisciplinary team made up of...
Pierre N. Robillard, Patrick d'Astous, Franç...