Abstract: Recently, Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) has emerged as an alternative to Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) software. Now, FOSS is perceived as a viable long-term sol...
Robert Charpentier, Mourad Debbabi, Dima Alhadidi,...
Libre (free / open source) software development is a complex phenomenon. Many actors (core developers, casual contributors, bug reporters, patch submitters, users, etc.), in many ...
Although there exist several software model checkers that check the code against properties specified e.g. via a temporal logic and assertions, or just verifying low-level propert...
The extraction of reusable software components from existing systems is an attractive idea. The goal of the work in this paper is not to extract a component automatically, but to ...
In most modern operating systems, a process is a -protected abstraction for isolating code and data. This protection, however, is selective. Many common mechanisms—dynamic code ...