Modern operating systems primarily use Discretionary Access Control (DAC) to protect files and other operating system resources. DAC mechanisms are more user-friendly than Mandat...
Technical support procedures are typically very complex. Users often have trouble following printed instructions describing how to perform these procedures, and these instructions...
Tessa A. Lau, Lawrence D. Bergman, Vittorio Castel...
It is extremely hard for a global organization with services over multiple channels to capture a consistent and unified view of its data, services, and interactions. While SOA and...
Ismail Ari, Jun Li, Riddhiman Ghosh, Mohamed Dekhi...
Cluster-based servers can substantially increase performance when nodes cooperate to globally manage resources. However, in this paper we show that cooperation results in a substa...
Deadlock is an increasingly pressing concern as the multicore revolution forces parallel programming upon the average programmer. Existing approaches to deadlock impose onerous bu...