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An Institution-Based View Of International Business Strategy: A Focus On Emerging Economies
October 8, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper leverages recent practitioner and academic interest in emerging economies and argues that an institution-based view of international business strategy has emerged. Institutions are the...
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Sustainable IT Outsourcing Success: Let Enterprise Architecture Be Your Guide
February 27, 2007, 12:00am PST
This paper explores the relationship between IT outsourcing and enterprise architecture. In an earlier paper which described four stages of architecture maturity (business silos, standardized...
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Detection and Prevention Methods of Botnet-Generated Spam
March 27, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Although anti-spam measures are improving, the spam volume is increasing due to the use of Botnets. Botnets facilitate an efficient generation and guaranteed delivery of large volumes of spam....
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Pharewell to Phishing: Secure Direction and Redirection Over the Web
October 13, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The conventional wisdom has always been that users should refrain from entering their sensitive data (such as usernames, passwords, and credit card numbers) into http(or white) pages, but they can...
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Inputs of Coma: Static Detection of Denial-of-Service Vulnerabilities
April 24, 2009, 12:00am PDT
As networked systems grow in complexity, they are increasingly vulnerable to Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks involving resource exhaustion. A single malicious input of coma can trigger...
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MashSSL: Towards Multi-Party Trust in the Internet
October 23, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper first shows that several seemingly disparate problems, ranging from secure cross domain authorization to policy enforcement in enterprise mashups to MITM attacks on federation...
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Security Threat and Vulnerability Mitigation Patterns: A Case of Credit Card Theft Mitigation
May 25, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Most attacks on computer and software systems are caused by threats to known vulnerabilities. Part of the reason is that one needs a lot of knowledge in developing secure systems, but it is...
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Characterization of RF Propagation in Muscle Tissue for Passive UHF RFID Tags
July 17, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents an analytical analysis and study of the propagation of Radio Frequency (RF) energy in muscle tissue. The workings of passive UHF RFID tag backscatter are studied. Backscatter...
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SOAR: Simple Opportunistic Adaptive Routing Protocol for Wireless Mesh Networks
May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Multihop wireless mesh networks are becoming a new attractive communication paradigm owing to their low cost and ease of deployment. Routing protocols are critical to the performance and...
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High Information Assurance in Wireless Sensor Networks: A Multi-Layer Security Framework
February 18, 2009, 12:00am PST
Tremendous advancements in embedded systems, sensors and wireless communications technology have made it possible to build Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) consisting of a large number of sensor...
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Leveraging Dynamic Spare Capacity in Wireless Systems to Conserve Mobile Terminals' Energy
September 4, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper studies several ways in which mobile terminals can backoff on their uplink transmit power in order to extend battery lifetimes. This is particularly effective when a wireless system is...
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Hierarchical-Battery Aware Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
The Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) have been envisioned to help in numerous monitoring applications. Pulsed battery discharge from the nodes prolongs the battery capacity as compared to constant...
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A Framework for Modeling Security Measures
June 3, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper introduces a framework that provides a model for describing security measures and their relative effectiveness as well as importance. This model enhances computer security training and...
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Optical CDMA With Optical Orthogonal Code
December 11, 2002, 12:00am PST
This paper examines optical CDMA communication techniques with optical orthogonal codes. Simulations that show the desired properties of theses codes and their use in optical CDMA are reported in...
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Vehicular Wireless Burst Switching Network: Enhancing Rural Connectivity
March 16, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper introduces a network architecture called Vehicular Wireless Burst Switching (VWBS). The main objective of this architecture is to provide lowcost connectivity solution for isolated and...
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Pharewell to Phishing
August 28, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The conventional wisdom has always been that users should refrain from entering their sensitive data (such as usernames, passwords, and credit card numbers) into http(or white) pages, but they can...
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The Orc Programming Language
October 7, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Orc was originally presented as a process calculus. It has now evolved into a full programming language, which will be described in this paper. The language has the structure and feel of a...
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Takeoff And Growth Across Technology Generations
May 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
An apparent contradiction exists on growth across technology generations: while common wisdom among industry experts in technology markets is that new product growth accelerates across technology...
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Financial Experts See Hope For Mid-Market Firms
June 7, 2010, 12:00am PDT
As the economy moves from recession into recovery, the nation's largest companies have been more successful in securing loans and capital than their smaller counterparts. Still, recovery for small...
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Are Regulatory Mandate and Independence Necessary For Audit Quality?
October 13, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Mandated audit by independent accountants is a key feature of U.S. regulation of financial statements. This study presents archival data on certification activity in the economy, and conducts a...
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Subgame Perfection In Ultimatum Bargaining Trees
February 14, 2007, 12:00am PST
In typical experiments on ultimatum bargaining, the game is described verbally and the majority of subjects deviate from subgame-perfect behavior. Proposers typically offer significantly more than...
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Managing Earnings Using Classification Shifting: Evidence From Quarterly Special Items
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines whether and when managers shift core expenses to special items to inflate current core earnings. McVay (2006) concludes that, on an annual basis, managers opportunistically...
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Business and Sustainability. Are Companies Playing To Win Or Playing Not To Lose?
April 2, 2010, 12:00am PDT
One of the main challenges that society faces today is how to build a sustainable World which would allow us to satisfy our present needs, without jeopardizing the abilities of future generations...
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The Impact Of Online Auction Duration
April 10, 2009, 12:00am PDT
One view regarding auction duration suggests that longer auctions would result in more bidders and more bids, which in turn would result in higher prices. An opposing view is that shorter auctions...
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Traders' Expectations In Asset Markets: Experimental Evidence
October 22, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The paper elicits traders' predictions of future price trajectories in repeated experimental markets for a 15-period-lived asset. It's found that individuals' beliefs about prices are adaptive,...
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Is Geography Destiny For New Ventures?
July 30, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The search for novelty - that innovative and valuable product or service - is the essence of most technology-driven new ventures. Novel ideas that lead to the success of a new venture often...
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Promised Lead Time Contracts Under Asymmetric Information
January 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
The paper studies the important problem of how a supplier should optimally share the consequences of demand uncertainty (i.e., the cost of inventory excesses and shortages) with a retailer in a...
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Managing A Bank's Currency Inventory Under New Federal Reserve Guidelines
August 11, 2006, 12:00am PDT
New currency recirculation guidelines implemented by the Federal Reserve System (Fed) of the United States are intended to reduce the overuse of its currency processing services by depository...
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Building A New Science: The Elements Of Risk And Decision Analysis
July 30, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Risk is an issue in most activities, technical as well as economic, internal or external to any organization. It has been considered so far in the context of different disciplines. In engineering...
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Using Agile To Manage Project Finances: Taking Back Some Control
April 7, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In most projects, Project Managers (PMs) are tasked with helping to deliver according to the business' needs. During traditional Waterfall development processes, this may require a lengthy...
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Transformational Leadership In Project Management
March 12, 2010, 12:00am PST
Poor Communication and Strategic Alignment within Projects Result in Lost Opportunity and Poor Performance. Develop stronger systems for linking strategy to project investments by connecting...
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Valuable, Rare Resources Or Really Big Vanity Plates? Market Reactions To Announcements Of Stadium Naming Rights
July 30, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Recently, the media has challenged the economic merits of the enhanced reputation and visibility associated with these arguments. After all, 70 percent of these agreements also provide corporate...
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Maximizing The Benefits Of Shared Data: Sharing Transactional Databases Across Organizations While Preserving Privacy
July 30, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Firms often share point-of-sale data with their business partners so they can identify and exploit underlying patterns of purchasing behavior for mutual benefit. However, sharing data can result...
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Seeking Inventory Control Answers Via Research. Incomplete Inventory Information: The Next Challenge In Inventory Control
July 30, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Inventory control is one of the most important topics in management science. A systematic analysis of inventory problems began with the development of the classical Economic Order Quantity formula...
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Product Lifecycle Management In The Telecommunications Industry: A Critical Perspective For Survival And Success
June 19, 2006, 12:00am PDT
With worldwide revenues exceeding $1.2 trillion dollars annually, the Telecom industry is one of the largest, serving the needs of an increasingly global and interconnected world. Taken together,...
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Structural Search and Optimization in Social Networks
February 12, 2009, 12:00am PST
The explosive growth in the variety and size of social networks has focused attention on searching these networks for useful structures. Like the internet or the telephone network, the ability to...
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Self-Selection And The Forecasting Abilities Of Female Equity Analysts
May 30, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper investigates whether there are systematic differences between the forecasting style and abilities of female and male analysts, and whether market participants recognize these...
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Retail Investor Sentiment And Return Comovements
August 28, 2006, 12:00am PDT
This paper uses trading records of individual investors to investigate the effect of retail trading on stock returns. Our analysis is based on a sample of more than 1.85 million buy and sell...
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Do Endowment Funds Select The Optimal Mix Of Active And Passive Risks?
December 12, 2009, 12:00am PST
The investment decision confronting managers of multi-asset class portfolios can be characterized in terms of the passive (i.e., benchmark or policy) and active (i.e., market timing and security...
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Asset Allocation And Portfolio Performance: Evidence From University Endowment Funds
January 7, 2010, 12:00am PST
The author use university endowment funds to study the relationship between asset allocation decisions and performance in multiple asset class portfolios. Although endowments differ substantially...
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Towards Understanding the Fundamentals of Mobility in Cellular Networks
April 17, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Despite the central role of mobility in wireless networks, there are surprisingly few fundamental results on its properties. This paper aims to address this gap by proposing a new Random Way-Point...
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Minimum-Delay Service Provisioning in Opportunistic Networks
August 15, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Opportunistic networks are created dynamically by exploiting contacts between pairs of mobile devices that come within communication range. While forwarding in opportunistic networking has been...
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Bandwidth-SINR Tradeoffs in Spatial Networks
April 20, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper addresses the following question, which is of interest in the design of a multiuser decentralized network: given a total system bandwidth of W Hz and a fixed data rate constraint of R...
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Extending Java for Android Programming
April 1, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Android is one of the most popular platforms for developing mobile applications. However, its framework relies on programming conventions and styles to implement framework-specific concepts like...
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Discovering and Representing Systematic Code Changes
February 12, 2009, 12:00am PST
Software engineers often inspect program differences when reviewing others' code changes, when writing check-in comments, or when determining why a program behaves differently from expected...
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Template-Based Reconstruction of Complex Refactorings
August 14, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Knowing which types of refactoring occurred between two program versions can help programmers better understand code changes. The authors' survey of refactoring identification techniques found...
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BRACE: An Assertion Framework for Debugging Cyber-Physical Systems
April 14, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Developing Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) is challenging because correctness depends on both logical and physical states, which are collectively difficult to observe. The developer often need to...
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Vdiff: A Program Differencing Algorithm for Verilog Hardware Description Language
April 16, 2012, 12:00am PDT
During code review tasks, comparing two versions of a hardware design description using existing program differencing tools such as diff is inherently limited because these tools implicitly assume...
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An Empirical Study of Supplementary Bug Fixes
April 23, 2012, 12:00am PDT
A recent study finds that errors of omission are harder for programmers to detect than errors of commission. While several change recommendation systems already exist to prevent or reduce omission...
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Heterogeneous Cellular Networks: From Theory to Practice
November 30, 2011, 12:00am PST
The proliferation of internet-connected mobile devices will continue to drive growth in data traffic in an exponential fashion, forcing network operators to dramatically increase the capacity of...
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Graphical Models of Separation Logic
June 2, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Graphs are used to model control and data flow among events occurring in the execution of a concurrent program. The authors' treatment of data flow covers both shared storage and external...
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The University of Texas Medical Branch 2.0 (iOS)
April 16, 2012, 12:00am PDT
The Official app of The University of Texas Medical Branch. Keeping in touch with UTMB is now easier and more enjoyable than ever before. With this app, you can check out News and the Events...
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A Flexible Heterogeneous Multi-Core Architecture
July 9, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Multi-core processors naturally exploit Thread-Level Parallelism (TLP). However, extracting Instruction-Level Parallelism (ILP) from individual applications or threads is still a challenge as...
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A Two-Level Load/Store Queue Based on Execution Locality
March 14, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Multicore processors have emerged as a powerful platform on which to efficiently exploit Thread-Level Parallelism (TLP). However, due to Amdahl's Law, such designs will be increasingly limited by...
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An Optimized Scaled Neural Branch Predictor
October 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Conditional branch prediction remains one of the most important enabling technologies for high-performance microprocessors. A small improvement in accuracy can result in a large improvement in...
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Program Interferometry
November 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Modern microprocessors have many micro-architectural features. Quantifying the performance impact of one feature such as dynamic branch prediction can be difficult. On one hand, a timing simulator...
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Decoupled Dynamic Cache Segmentation
February 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
The Least Recently Used (LRU) replacement policy performs poorly in the Last-Level Cache (LLC) because temporal locality of memory accesses is filtered by first and second level caches. The...
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On Throughput Optimality With Delayed Network-State Information
February 20, 2008, 12:00am PST
The authors study the problem of routing/scheduling in a wireless network with partial/delayed Network (channel and queue) State Information (NSI). They consider two cases: a network with a...
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ODON: An On-Demand Security Overlay for Mission-Critical Applications
May 9, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors consider the construction of a large-scale, highly available and secure overlay network to enable mission-critical communication between emergency personnel at a...
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Detecting Dangerous Queries: A New Approach for Chosen Ciphertext Security
January 4, 2012, 12:00am PST
The authors present a new approach for creating chosen ciphertext secure encryption. The focal point of their work is a new abstraction that they call Detectable Chosen Ciphertext Security (DCCA)....
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Efficient Lattice (H)IBE in the Standard Model
March 21, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors construct an efficient identity based encryption system based on the standard Learning With Errors (LWE) problem. Their security proof holds in the standard model. The key step in the...
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Lattice Basis Delegation in Fixed Dimension and Shorter-Ciphertext Hierarchical IBE
May 27, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors present a technique for delegating a short lattice basis that has the advantage of keeping the lattice dimension unchanged upon delegation. Building on this result, they construct two...
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A-Serv: A Novel Architecture Providing Scalable Quality of Service
February 24, 2012, 12:00am PST
QoS architectures define how routers process packets to ensure QoS service guarantees enforced. Existing QoS architectures such as Integrated Services (IntServ), Differentiated Services...
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The University of Texas at El Paso 1.1.0 (Mobile)
May 21, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The University of Texas at El Paso App is the fast and convenient information portal for Miners on the Move who want to know the latest happenings around campus and the borderland. It is...
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A Bottleneck Eliminating Approximate Algorithm for PON Layout
January 12, 2007, 12:00am PST
To layout a Passive Optical Network (PON) under the constraints of cost effectiveness is essentially a constraint optimization problem. In this paper, the authors first show that in general this...
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A Comparative Analysis of Parallel Computing Approaches for Genome Assembly
January 12, 2010, 12:00am PST
Over the last two decades, the authors have witnessed a tremendous growth of sequenced genomic data. However, the algorithms and computational power required to expeditiously process, classify,...
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Reducing Configurations to Monitor in a Software Product Line
August 17, 2010, 12:00am PDT
A software product line is a family of programs where each program is defined by a unique combination of features. Product lines, like conventional programs, can be checked for safety properties...
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A Property Specification Tool for Generating Formal Specifications: Prospec 2.0
May 6, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Numerous formal approaches to software assurance are available, including: run-time monitoring, model checking, and theorem proving. All of these approaches require formal specifications of...
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University of Texas Permian Basin 4.60 (Mobile)
February 25, 2012, 12:00am PST
UTPB in the palm of your hand!Find faculty and staff, navigate the UTPB campus, get the latest athletics news, game times, University events, and more.Content is updated daily so you will always...
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The University of Texas At Austin 1.3 (Mobile)
January 5, 2010, 12:00am PST
Bleed burnt orange? The University of Texas at Austin is now available wherever you go.Search for UT news, check out campus-related events, keep tabs on sports news and scores, tap into the UT...
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Enhancing the Role of Inlining in Effective Interprocedural Parallelization
June 25, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The emergence of multi-core architectures makes it essential for optimizing compilers to automatically extract parallelism for large scientific applications composed of many subroutines residing...
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Toward the Verification of a Simple Hypervisor
September 16, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Virtualization promises significant benefits in security, efficiency, dependability, and cost. Achieving these benefits depends upon the reliability of the underlying virtual machine monitors...
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Canica: An IDE for the Java Modeling Language
August 1, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Canica is an integrated development environment for the Java Modeling Language (JML), a formal behavioral interface specification language for Java. The JML distribution includes several support...
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Random Test Data Generation for Java Classes Annotated With JML Specifications
March 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
The hidden states of objects create a barrier to designing and generating test data automatically. For example, the state of an object has to be established indirectly through a sequence of method...
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Architectural Assertions: Checking Architectural Constraints at Run-Time
May 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The inability to express architectural concepts and constraints explicitly in implementation code invites the problem of architectural drift and corrosion. The authors propose run-time checks as a...
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Automated Random Testing to Detect Specification-Code Inconsistencies
March 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
An interface specification language such as JML provides a means to document precisely the behavior of program modules such as Java classes, and it is being adopted by industry. However, few...
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A Library-Based Approach to Translating OCL Constraints to JML Assertions for Runtime Checking
May 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
OCL is a formal notation to specify constraints on UML models that cannot otherwise be expressed by diagrammatic notations such as class diagrams. Using OCL one can document detailed design...
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Integrating Random Testing With Constraints for Improved Efficiency and Diversity
May 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Random testing can be fully automated, eliminates subjectiveness in constructing test data, and increases the diversity of test data. However, randomly generated tests may not satisfy program's...
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Runtime Constraint Checking Approaches for OCL, a Critical Comparison
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
There are many benefits of checking design constraints at run-time - for example, automatic detection of design drift or corrosion. However, there is no comparative analysis of different...
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Access Control Contracts for Java Program Modules
April 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Application-level security has become an issue in recent years; for example, errors, discrepancies and omissions in the specification of access control constraints of security-sensitive software...
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