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Code Obfuscation Against Static and Dynamic Reverse Engineering
June 30, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The process of reverse engineering allows attackers to understand the behavior of software and extract proprietary algorithms and data structures (e.g. cryptographic keys) from it. Code...
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Engineering Project Management Using the Engineering Cockpit
May 30, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Automation Systems Engineering projects typically depend on contributions from several engineering disciplines. While available software tools are strong in supporting each individual engineering...
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Evaluating Tools That Support Pair Programming in a Distributed Engineering Environment
February 22, 2010, 12:00am PST
The construction and improvement of high-quality products in a global software development environment requires flexible practices for collaboration and tools that support these practices in a...
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A Controlled Experiment on Team Meeting Style in Software Architecture Evaluation
February 22, 2010, 12:00am PST
Software architecture change can have a major impact on product and project quality. Software architecture evaluation systematically investigates architecture variants with respect to their...
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A Project Monitoring Cockpit Based on Integrating Data Sources in Open Source Software Development
May 10, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Many Open Source Software (OSS) development projects use tools and models that come from heterogeneous sources. A project manager, who wants to analyze indicators for the state of the project...
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Towards an Architectural Framework for Agile Software Development
April 29, 2010, 12:00am PDT
One of the ideas of agile software development is to respond to changes rather than following a plan. Constantly changing businesses result in changing requirements, to be handled in the...
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Improving Conflict Resolution in Model Versioning Systems
February 11, 2009, 12:00am PST
Collaborative software development is nowadays inconceivable without optimistic Version Control Systems (VCSs). Without such systems the parallel modification of one artifact by multiple users is...
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Lets's Play the Token Game - Model Transformations Powered by Transformation Nets
June 22, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) is a software engineering paradigm using abstract models to describe systems which are then systematically transformed to concrete implementations. Since model...
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SemTrace: Semantic Requirements Tracing Using Explicit Requirement Knowledge
July 10, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In the Software Engineering (SE) domain the EU challenge on semantic systems and services motivates better support of knowledge creation as well as better access of SE stakeholders to the...
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Using Explicit and Machine-Understandable Engineering Knowledge for Defect Detection in Automation Systems Engineering
August 3, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Today the costs of a failure in operation of huge industrial complexes are very high. Traditional approaches for defect detection in automation systems engineering in principle work, but generally...
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On the Suitability of Modeling Approaches for Engineering Distributed Control Systems
June 10, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Modern complex and flexible manufacturing systems require new types of control system architectures and design methodologies. An essential new applied architectural approach is the distributed...
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Automating the Detection of Complex Semantic Conflicts Between Software Requirements
May 10, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Keeping requirements consistent already at early project stages is a main success factor for software development projects. However, manual requirements conflict analysis takes significant effort...
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A Semi-Automatic Approach for Bridging DSLs With UML
October 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The definition of modeling languages is a key-prerequisite for Model-Driven Engineering (MDE). In this respect, Domain-Specific Languages (DSL) defined in terms of metamodels and UML profiles are...
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RTTM: Real-Time Transactional Memory
February 26, 2010, 12:00am PST
Hardware transactional memory is a promising synchronization technology for chip-multiprocessors. It simplifies programming of concurrent applications and allows for higher concurrency than lock...
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Closing the Dependability Gap: Converging Software Engineering With Middleware
April 7, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The inertness of today's software systems turns innovative applications into an obstacle rather than an enabler and results in dependability degradation during the systems' lifetime. Even more so,...
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Information Security Automation: How Far Can We Go?
August 23, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Information security management is a very complex task which involves the implementation and monitoring of more than 130 security controls. To achieve greater efficiency in this process it is...
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A UML Profile for the e3-Value e-Business Model Ontology
May 7, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Shorter life cycles of products and services require faster changing business models. Information systems must quickly adjust to the adapted business models. Business models are usually described...
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A Comparison of Rule Inheritance in Model-to-Model Transformation Languages
February 11, 2011, 12:00am PST
Although model transformations presumably play a major role in Model-Driven Engineering, reuse mechanisms such as inheritance have received little attention so far. In this paper, the authors...
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WSN Implementation of the Average Consensus Algorithm
April 29, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper is motivated by the lack of distributed algorithm implementations on Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) in hardware. The authors deal exemplary with the implementation of the well-known...
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Extending Mondrian Memory Protection
November 9, 2010, 12:00am PST
Most modern operating systems implement some sort of memory protection scheme for user processes. These schemes make it is possible to set access permissions that determine whether a region of...
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A Practical Attack to De-Anonymize Social Network Users
May 5, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Social networking sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Xing have been reporting exponential growth rates and have millions of registered users. In this paper, the authors introduce a novel...
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Domain-Specific Languages in a Finite Domain Constraint Programming System
August 30, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors present Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) that they devised for their use in the implementation of a finite domain constraint programming system, available as library...
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Position Paper: m2n-A Tool for Translating Models to Natural Language Descriptions
June 10, 2011, 12:00am PDT
To describe the structure of a system, the UML Class Diagram yields the means-of-choice. Therefore, the Class Diagram provides concepts like class, attribute, operation, association,...
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CASViD: Application Level Monitoring for SLA Violation Detection in Clouds
April 20, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Cloud resources and services are offered based on Service Level Agreements (SLAs) that state usage terms and penalties in case of violations. Although, there is a large body of work in the area of...
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Aspects of Software Quality Assurance in Open Source Software Projects: Two Case Studies From Apache Project
June 8, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Open Source Software (OSS) solutions provide mission critical services to industry and government organizations. This paper provides a preliminary exploration to improve ones understanding of...
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A Modular UHF Reader Frontend for a Flexible RFID Testbed
June 16, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Currently RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology is pushing to the market mainly forced by industry. Passive tags in the UHF (Ultra High Frequency) region are of particular interest e.g....
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Current and Future Technologies for Collaborative Working Environments
May 21, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper reports the final, detailed result of the study on current and future technologies for Collaborative Working Environments (CWEs). The goal of this paper is to analyze current CWEs and...
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Securing a Space-Based Service Architecture With Coordination-Driven Access Control
March 21, 2013, 12:00am PDT
In distributed applications, multiple autonomous processes need to collaborate in an efficient way. Space-based middleware enables data-driven coordination for these processes via shared tuple...
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Service-Oriented Architecture Design Aspects of OPC UA for Industrial Applications
September 20, 2009, 12:00am PDT
OPC Unified Architecture is the most recent OPC specification from the OPC Foundation and differs significantly from its predecessors. The OPC Foundation's main goals with this development was to...
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Integrated Pricing And Inventory Control With Reference Price Effects
July 25, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In this paper the authors study a joint pricing and inventory control model with backlogging for single items under reference price effects. The reference price effect models the empirically well...
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Interrupt Handlers in Java
February 15, 2008, 12:00am PST
An important part of implementing device drivers is to control the interrupt facilities of the hardware platform and to program interrupt handlers. Current methods for handling interrupts in Java...
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A Java Processor Architecture for Embedded Real-Time Systems
June 12, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Architectural advancements in modern processor designs increase average performance with features such as pipelines, caches, branch prediction, and out-of-order execution. However, these features...
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UDP for Real-Time Linux
December 24, 2007, 12:00am PST
This work describes the integration of the hard real-time UDP/IP stack rtludp-0.1.1 into the Realtime Ethernet Device Driver (REDD) of the free real-time Linux distribution RTLinux/GPL. The...
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Compliant Cloud Computing (C3): Architecture and Language Support for User-Driven Compliance Management in Clouds
May 6, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Cloud computing represents a promising computing paradigm, where computational power is provided similar to utilities like water, electricity or gas. While most of the Cloud providers can...
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Applied Information Security for M-Commerce and Digital Television Environments
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
With the emergence of convergent information devices capable of delivering multimedia content and providing a network communication independent of location, new challenges regarding the creation...
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End-to-End Versioning Support For Web Services
April 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Software services are, just like any other software system, subject to permanent change. The authors argue that these changes should generally be transparent to service consumers. However,...
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An Integrated View on Monitoring and Compensation for Dynamic Optical Networks: From Management to Physical Layer
December 10, 2008, 12:00am PST
A vertical perspective, ranging from management and routing to physical layer options, concerning dynamic network Monitoring and Compensation of impairments (M&C), is given. Feasibility,...
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Abstract and Concrete Syntax Migration of Instance Models
July 26, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents a solution for the TTC 2010 model migration case study. Firstly, the paper presents a modular approach to migrate the instance models' abstract syntax. Secondly, the problem of...
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Catching the Ouroboros: On Debugging Non-Ground Answer-Set Programs
March 20, 2010, 12:00am PDT
An important issue towards a broader acceptance of Answer-Set Programming (ASP) is the deployment of tools which support the programmer during the coding phase. In particular, methods for...
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Architecture for Object-Oriented Programming Languages
September 28, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Object Oriented Programming (OOP) is a program paradigm that uses objects-data structures consisting of data files and methods together with their interactions to design applications and computer...
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It's Time to Bring Word Processing Out of the Dark Ages: A Position Paper
November 24, 2007, 12:00am PST
This paper presents a view that word processing (and document authoring in general) today is very inefficient, and that this problem is mainly due to inadequately designed software whose approach...
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Scalable, Behavior-Based Malware Clustering
December 13, 2008, 12:00am PST
Anti-malware companies receive thousands of malware samples every day. To process this large quantity, a number of automated analysis tools were developed. These tools execute a malicious program...
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Efficient Detection of Split Personalities in Malware
December 19, 2009, 12:00am PST
Malware is the root cause of many security threats on the Internet. To cope with the thousands of new malware samples that are discovered every day, security companies and analysts rely on...
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Throughput and Capacity of MIMO WiMAX
November 4, 2009, 12:00am PST
The work in this paper presents physical layer throughput measurement results of a WiMAX link implemented according to IEEE 802.16-2004. The measurements were carried out in an alpine and an urban...
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Measurement Based Throughput Evaluation of Residual Frequency Offset Compensation in WiMAX
September 30, 2009, 12:00am PDT
WiMAX utilizes a physical-layer based on OFDM that is very sensitive to carrier frequency offset. Even though most of this offset can be compensated using the initial training sequence, there...
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Advanced QoS Methods for Grid Workflows Based on Meta-Negotiations and SLA-Mappings
November 5, 2008, 12:00am PST
In novel market-oriented resource sharing models, resource consumers pay for the resource usage and expect that non-functional requirements for the application execution, termed as Quality of...
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Towards a Meta-Negotiation Architecture for SLA-Aware Grid Services
November 20, 2008, 12:00am PST
In novel market-oriented resource sharing models resource consumers pay for the resource usage and expect that non-functional requirements for the application execution, termed as Quality of...
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Automatically Generating Models for Botnet Detection
June 30, 2009, 12:00am PDT
A botnet is a network of compromised hosts that is under the control of a single, malicious entity, often called the botmaster. This paper presents a system that aims to detect bots, independent...
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Data Recovery From Distributed Personal Repositories
June 15, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents an approach to personal disaster recovery, e.g. after a hard-disk crash, based not on an explicitly ex-ante defined recovery plan with a rigid backup regime, but rather on...
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Firewire Blocker: A Software Defense Against Firewire-Based Physical Security Attacks on Windows Systems
August 13, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents a software solution to Firewire-based physical security attacks on Microsoft Windows operating systems. In this first proof-of-concept, the FirewireBlocker service is running...
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Current and Future Technologies for Collaborative Working Environments
May 21, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper reports the final, detailed result of the study on current and future technologies for Collaborative Working Environments (CWEs). The goal of this paper is to analyze current CWEs and...
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A Modular UHF Reader Frontend for a Flexible RFID Testbed
June 16, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Currently RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology is pushing to the market mainly forced by industry. Passive tags in the UHF (Ultra High Frequency) region are of particular interest e.g....
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Aspects of Software Quality Assurance in Open Source Software Projects: Two Case Studies From Apache Project
June 8, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Open Source Software (OSS) solutions provide mission critical services to industry and government organizations. This paper provides a preliminary exploration to improve ones understanding of...
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A UML Profile for the e3-Value e-Business Model Ontology
May 7, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Shorter life cycles of products and services require faster changing business models. Information systems must quickly adjust to the adapted business models. Business models are usually described...
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Closing the Dependability Gap: Converging Software Engineering With Middleware
April 7, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The inertness of today's software systems turns innovative applications into an obstacle rather than an enabler and results in dependability degradation during the systems' lifetime. Even more so,...
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Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Vs. Component Based Architecture
February 13, 2006, 12:00am PST
SOA is a buzzword and topic for many discussions in nearly every professional journal and conference. Opinions differ from "Some technical rubbish" to "The technology of the future". The problem...
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