Recent Microsoft security bulletins show that kernel vulnerabilities are becoming more and more important security threats. Despite the pretty extensive security mitigations many ...
Scalability is said to be one of the major advantages brought by the cloud paradigm and, more specifically, the one that makes it different to an “advanced outsourcing” solu...
Luis M. Vaquero, Luis Rodero-Merino, Rajkumar Buyy...
While conventional wisdom holds that residential users experience a high degree of compromise and infection, this presumption has seen little validation in the way of an in-depth s...
Gregor Maier, Anja Feldmann, Vern Paxson, Robin So...
—Dynamic software updating research efforts have mostly been focused on updating application code and in-memory state. As more and more applications use embedded databases for st...
Active contours, or snakes, are computer-generated curves that move within images to find object boundaries. Its 3D version is often known as deformable models or active surfaces ...