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ASWEC
2010
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Studying Software Evolution for Taming Software Complexity
—Reducing software complexity is key to reducing software maintenance costs. To discover complexity-reducing practices, in this paper we study the evolution of seven sizable open...
Steve D. Suh, Iulian Neamtiu
SEE
2010
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
Engineering Good: How Engineering Metaphors Help us to Understand the Moral Life and Change Society
Engineering can learn from ethics, but ethics can also learn from engineering. In this paper, I discuss what engineering metaphors can teach us about practical philosophy. Using me...
Mark Coeckelbergh
PPOPP
2009
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Formal verification of practical MPI programs
This paper considers the problem of formal verification of MPI programs operating under a fixed test harness for safety properties without building verification models. In our app...
Anh Vo, Sarvani S. Vakkalanka, Michael Delisi, Gan...
CCS
2010
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Practical leakage-resilient pseudorandom generators
Cryptographic systems and protocols are the core of many Internet security procedures (such as SSL, SSH, IPSEC, DNSSEC, secure mail, etc.). At the heart of all cryptographic funct...
Yu Yu, François-Xavier Standaert, Olivier P...
VEE
2012
ACM
252views Virtualization» more  VEE 2012»
12 years 4 months ago
libdft: practical dynamic data flow tracking for commodity systems
Dynamic data flow tracking (DFT) deals with tagging and tracking data of interest as they propagate during program execution. DFT has been repeatedly implemented by a variety of ...
Vasileios P. Kemerlis, Georgios Portokalidis, Kang...