: After over a decade of use, design patterns continue to find new areas of application. In previous work, we presented a contract formalism for specifying patterns precisely, and...
Neelam Soundarajan, Jason O. Hallstrom, Adem Delib...
In the public sector (particularly in the UK in light of recent reforms i.e. the Local Government Act 2000, etc.) a greater degree of accountability and public involvement or inte...
Patrick G. Watson, Penny Duquenoy, Margaret Brenna...
Address space randomization is an emerging and promising method for stopping a broad range of memory corruption attacks. By randomly shifting critical memory regions at process in...
Chongkyung Kil, Jinsuk Jun, Christopher Bookholt, ...
Security is an integral part of most software systems but it is not considered as an explicit part in the development process yet. Input validation is the most critical part of so...
Pedram Hayati, Nastaran Jafari, S. Mohammad Rezaei...
— Enterprise database systems handle a variety of diverse query workloads that are of different importance to the business. For example, periodic reporting queries are usually mi...