For large software systems, interface structure has an important impact on their maintainability and build performance. For example, for complex systems written in C, recompilatio...
Rahmat Adnan, Bas Graaf, Arie van Deursen, Joost Z...
Today, Internet traffic is encrypted only when deemed necessary. Yet modern CPUs could feasibly encrypt most traffic. Moreover, the cost of doing so will only drop over time. Tcpc...
Andrea Bittau, Michael Hamburg, Mark Handley, Davi...
In this paper, we introduce a discrete-time model for the complete power supply sub-system that closely approximates the behavior of its circuit-level (i.e., HSpice), continuous-t...
Luca Benini, Giuliano Castelli, Alberto Macii, Enr...
This paper discusses highly general mechanisms for specifying the refinement of a real-time system as a collection of lower level parallel components that preserve the timing and ...
Paul Z. Kolano, Carlo A. Furia, Richard A. Kemmere...
Designers of concurrent and distributed algorithms usually express them using pseudo-code. In contrast, most verification techniques are based on more mathematically-oriented forma...