Despite decades of research in extensible operating system technology, extensions such as device drivers remain a significant cause of system failures. In Windows XP, for example,...
Security in browsers is based upon users trusting a set of root Certificate Authorities (called Trust Anchors) which they may know little or nothing about. Browser vendors face a...
IP multicast is increasingly seen as efficient mode of live content distribution in the Internet to significantly large subscriber bases. Despite its numerous benefits over IP u...
A large and increasing number of modern embedded systems are subject to tight power/energy constraints. It has been demonstrated that the operating system (OS) can have a signifi...
Current IT application domains such as web services and autonomic computing call for highly flexible systems, able to automatically adapt to changing operational environments as w...
Loris Penserini, Anna Perini, Angelo Susi, John My...