The advent of the Android system has brought smartphone technology to the doorsteps of
the masses. The latest technologies have made it affordable for every section of the society …

Following the coordinated vulnerability disclosure model, a vulnerability in open source
software (OSS) is sug-gested to be fixed" silently", without disclosing the fix until the …

Recurring vulnerabilities widely exist and remain undetected in real-world systems, which
are often resulted from reused code base or shared code logic. However, the potentially …

Nowadays real-time embedded devices are becoming one main target of cyber attacks. A
huge number of embedded devices equipped with outdated firmware are subject to various …

Open-source kernels have been adopted by massive downstream vendors on billions of
devices. However, these vendors often omit or delay the adoption of patches released in the …

Security patches play an important role in defending against the security threats brought by
the increasing OSS vulnerabilities. However, the collection of security patches still remains a …

Mobile application developers rely heavily on opensource software (OSS) to offload
common functionalities such as the implementation of protocols and media format playback …

CO 2 is the major greenhouse gas (GHG) emission throughout the world. For scientific and
industrial purposes, chemical absorption is regarded as an efficient method to capture CO 2 …

The rapid growth of the Android ecosystem has led to the fragmentation problem where a
wide range of (customized) versions of Android OS exist in the market. This poses a severe …

High availability is the most important and challenging problem for cloud providers.
However, virtual machine monitor (VMM), a crucial component of the cloud infrastructure …