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BSDCON
2003
13 years 8 months ago
An Automated Binary Security Update System for FreeBSD
With the present trend towards increased reliance upon computer systems, the provision and prompt application of security patches is becoming vital. Developers of all operating sy...
Colin Percival
IFIP3
2004
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13 years 8 months ago
Government sponsored open source software for school education
: The history of computing can be seen in terms of cultural change engendered by philosophical opposition. In education some key philosophical dichotomies are those of commercial-c...
Andrew E. Fluck
ICSE
2000
IEEE-ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Software economics: a roadmap
The fundamental goal of all good design and engineering is to create maximal value added for any given investment. There are many dimensions in which value can be assessed, from m...
Barry W. Boehm, Kevin J. Sullivan
HASE
1998
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Formal Specification in Collaborative Design of Critical Software Tools
Engineers use software tools to analyze designs for critical systems. Because important decisions are based on tool results, tools must provide valid modeling constructs; engineer...
David Coppit, Kevin J. Sullivan
FASE
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
SNIFF: A Search Engine for Java Using Free-Form Queries
Reuse of existing libraries simplifies software development efforts. However, these libraries are often complex and reusing the APIs in the libraries involves a steep learning cu...
Shaunak Chatterjee, Sudeep Juvekar, Koushik Sen