Dynamic symbolic execution is a structural testing technique that systematically explores feasible paths of the program under test by running the program with different test input...
Tao Xie, Nikolai Tillmann, Jonathan de Halleux, Wo...
Recently, peer-to-peer (P2P) networks have emerged as a covert communication platform for malicious programs known as bots. As popular distributed systems, they allow bots to comm...
Duc T. Ha, Guanhua Yan, Stephan Eidenbenz, Hung Q....
The use of mobile devices is limited by the battery lifetime. Some devices have the option to connect an extra battery, or to use smart battery-packs with multiple cells to extend...
Marijn R. Jongerden, Boudewijn R. Haverkort, Henri...
The OSGi framework is a Java-based, centralized, component oriented platform. It is being widely adopted as an execution environment for the development of extensible applications...
Decomposition is used to manage system complexity, but is problematic for emergent properties such as system safety. Previously, we introduced Indirect Control Path Analysis (ICPA...
Although server technology provides a means to support a wide range of online services and applications, their ad-hoc configuration poses significant challenges to the performan...
Log preprocessing, a process applied on the raw log before applying a predictive method, is of paramount importance to failure prediction and diagnosis. While existing filtering ...
Ziming Zheng, Zhiling Lan, Byung-Hoon Park, Al Gei...
Topological worms, such as those that propagate by following links in an overlay network, have the potential to spread faster than traditional random scanning worms because they h...
Filipe Freitas, Edgar Marques, Rodrigo Rodrigues, ...
It is becoming increasingly common to connect traditional embedded system networks to the Internet for remote monitoring, high-level control and integration. It is necessary to pr...