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DAMON
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Critical sections: re-emerging scalability concerns for database storage engines
Critical sections in database storage engines impact performance and scalability more as the number of hardware contexts per chip continues to grow exponentially. With enough thre...
Ryan Johnson, Ippokratis Pandis, Anastasia Ailamak...
MMS
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Collaborative video searching on a tabletop
Almost all system and application design for multimedia systems is based around a single user working in isolation to perform some task yet much of the work for which we use comput...
Alan F. Smeaton, Hyowon Lee, Colum Foley, Sin&eacu...
SIGSOFT
2001
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
An empirical methodology for introducing software processes
There is a growing interest in empirical study in software engineering, both for validating mature technologies and for guiding improvements of less-mature technologies. This pape...
Forrest Shull, Jeffrey Carver, Guilherme Travassos
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Sessionlock: securing web sessions against eavesdropping
Typical web sessions can be hijacked easily by a network eavesdropper in attacks that have come to be designated "sidejacking." The rise of ubiquitous wireless networks,...
Ben Adida
WWW
2005
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Hardening Web browsers against man-in-the-middle and eavesdropping attacks
Existing Web browsers handle security errors in a manner that often confuses users. In particular, when a user visits a secure site whose certificate the browser cannot verify, th...
José Carlos Brustoloni, Xia Brustoloni