Software evolves to fix bugs and add features. Stopping and restarting programs to apply
changes is inconvenient and often costly. Dynamic software updating (DSU) addresses this …

We hypothesize that a form of kernel-resident access control based integrity protection can
gain widespread acceptance in commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) environments, provided …

The Java Virtual Machine (JVM) has been widely adopted in part because of its classfile
format, which is portable, compact, modular, verifiable, and reasonably easy to work with …

Separating the evolution of an application from the evolution of its persistent data, or from
the evolution of the database system used to store the data can have collateral effects, such …

A software product line (SPL) is a family of programs that share assets from a common code
base. The programs of an SPL can be distinguished in terms of features, which represent …

Software is changed frequently during its life cycle. New requirements come, and bugs must
be fixed. To update an application, it usually must be stopped, patched, and restarted. This …

Role-based approaches gain more and more interest for modeling and implementing
variable software systems. Role models clearly separate static behavior represented by …

Dynamic aspect-oriented programming (AOP) enables runtime adaptation of aspects, which
is important for building sophisticated, aspect-based software engineering tools, such as …

Software product lines (SPLs) are used to create tailor-made software products by managing
and composing reusable assets. Generating a software product from the assets of an SPL is …

We present the InterAspect instrumentation framework for GCC, a widely used compiler
infrastructure. The addition of plug-in support in the latest release of GCC makes it an …