Embedded devices like smart cards can now run multiple interacting applications. A particular challenge in this domain is to dynamically integrate diverse security policies. In th...
Java workloads are becoming more and more prominent on various computing devices. Understanding the behavior of a Java workload which includes the interaction between the applicat...
Andy Georges, Dries Buytaert, Lieven Eeckhout, Koe...
In this paper we revisit the cells-and-portals visibility methods, originally developed for the special case of architectural interiors. We define an effectiveness measure for a ...
Database systems support recovery, providing high database availability. However, database applications may lose work because of a server failure. In particular, if a database serv...
Roger S. Barga, David B. Lomet, Thomas Baby, Sanja...
Extensible systems, such as Java or the SPIN extensible operating system, allow for units of code, or extensions, to be added to a running system in almost arbitrary fashion. Exte...