Researchers and practitioners have been successfully documenting software patterns for
over two decades. But the next step--building pattern languages--has proven much more …

Rapid technological advances in recent years have precipitated a general shift towards
software distribution as a central computing paradigm. This has been accompanied by a …

Since Gamma et al. published their design patterns, patterns are very popular in the area of
software engineering. They provide best practice to handle recurring problems during the …

Software security is an emerging area in software development. More and more
vulnerabilities are published and highlight the endangerment of systems. Hence, software …

Software security, which has attracted the interest of the industrial and research community
during the last years, aims at preventing security problems by building software without the …

System security has historically relied on hardware-provided isolation primitives. However,
Meltdown [36] and Spectre [30] demonstrate that basic user/kernel isolation could be …

Although many aids such as architectural styles and patterns are now available for software
architects, making optimal design decisions on appropriate architectural structures still …

Secure your applications with help from your favorite Jedi masters In Threats: What Every
Engineer Should Learn From Star Wars, accomplished security expert and educator Adam …

Finding the appropriate pattern to solve a particular security problem is difficult because of
the absence of a scientific classification scheme for security patterns. A suitable …

Abstract Bounded Max-Sum is a message-passing algorithm for solving Distributed
Constraint Optimization Problems (DCOP) able to compute solutions with a guaranteed …