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2007
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
SmokeScreen: flexible privacy controls for presence-sharing
Presence-sharing is an emerging platform for mobile applications, but presence-privacy remains a challenge. Privacy controls must be flexible enough to allow sharing between both ...
Landon P. Cox, Angela Dalton, Varun Marupadi
CCS
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Secure open source collaboration: an empirical study of linus' law
Open source software is often considered to be secure. One factor in this confidence in the security of open source software lies in leveraging large developer communities to find...
Andrew Meneely, Laurie A. Williams
DSN
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Failure Resilience for Device Drivers
Studies have shown that device drivers and extensions contain 3–7 times more bugs than other operating system code and thus are more likely to fail. Therefore, we present a fail...
Jorrit N. Herder, Herbert Bos, Ben Gras, Philip Ho...
BDIM
2008
IEEE
205views Business» more  BDIM 2008»
14 years 3 months ago
Mining semantic relations using NetFlow
—Knowing the dependencies among computing assets and services provides insights into the computing and business landscape, therefore, facilitating low-risk timely changes in supp...
Alexandru Caracas, Andreas Kind, Dieter Gantenbein...
DSN
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Dependability Assessment of Grid Middleware
Dependability is a key factor in any software system due to the potential costs in both time and money a failure may cause. Given the complexity of Grid applications that rely on ...
Nik Looker, Jie Xu