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Image computing has become a real catchphrase over the past few years and the interpretations of the meaning of the term vary greatly. The Imagecomputing market is currently rapidly evolving with high growth prospects and almost daily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Jaswinder Singh Dilawari , Ravinder Khanna

This work aims at discussing the complexity aspect of software while demonstrating its relationship with security. Complexity is an essential part of software; however, numerous studies indicate that they increase the vulnerability of the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Mamdouh Alenezi , Mohammad Zarour

This article analyzes trust and security in computing and communications systems. While in human-life, trust usually has some kind of commonly understood meaning, in the realm of computing and communications systems, it could be interpreted…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-03-22 Al-Sakib Khan Pathan

Authentication systems are designed to give the right person access to an organization's information system and to restrict it from the wrong person. Such systems are designed by IT professionals to protect an organization's assets (e.g.,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-09-04 Christopher S. Pilson , James C. McElroy

Vulnerabilities in open-source operating systems (OSs) pose substantial security risks to software systems, making their detection crucial. While fuzzing has been an effective vulnerability detection technique in various domains, OS fuzzing…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Kun Hu , Qicai Chen , Wenzhuo Zhang , Zilong Lu , Bihuan Chen , You Lu , Haowen Jiang , Bingkun Sun , Xin Peng , Wenyun Zhao

The most important security benefit of software memory safety is easy to state: for C and C++ software, attackers can exploit most bugs and vulnerabilities to gain full, unfettered control of software behavior, whereas this is not true for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Úlfar Erlingsson

Open source software is free software that provides user freedom to use, replicate, modify, and distribute for any purpose. The quality of well-known open source software is very high and they are used by big companies such as IBM, Google…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-07-19 Mohammad Nabil Almunawar

Software security has been an important research topic over the years. The community has proposed processes and tools for secure software development and security analysis. However, a significant number of vulnerabilities remains in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Steven Arzt , Linda Schreiber , Dominik Appelt

Open source and commercial applications used to be two separate worlds. The former was the work of amateurs who had little interest in making a profit, while the latter was only profit oriented and was produced by big companies. Nowadays…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2009-04-24 Ioan Despi , Lucian Luca

Operating Systems exists since existence of computers, and have been evolving continuously from time to time. In this paper we have reviewed a relatively new or unexplored topic of Live OS. From networking perspective, Live OS is used for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-01-01 Sajjad Haider , Mehboob Yasin , Naveed Hussain , Muhammad Imran

Wearable devices are a new form of mobile computer system that provides exclusive and user-personalized services. Wearable devices bring new issues and challenges to computer science and technology. This paper summarizes the development…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2015-04-06 He Jiang , Xin Chen , Shuwei Zhang , Xin Zhang , Weiqiang Kong , Tao Zhang

In this paper we discuss the impact of open source on both the security and transparency of a software system. We focus on the more technical aspects of this issue, combining and extending arguments developed over the years. We stress that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Jaap-Henk Hoepman , Bart Jacobs

Is it possible for an Information Technology [IT] product to be both mature and state-of-theart at the same time? In the case of the UNIX system, the answer is an unqualified "Yes." The UNIX system has continued to develop over the past…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2010-06-11 Spits Warnars H. L. H

This paper is a comprehensive survey of the various operating systems available for the Internet of Things environment. At first the paper introduces the various aspects of the operating systems designed for the IoT environment where…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2015-04-14 Tuhin Borgohain , Uday Kumar , Sugata Sanyal

Not long ago, it was thought that only software applications and general purpose digital systems i.e. computers were prone to various types of attacks against their security. The underlying hardware, hardware implementations of these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-10-04 Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam , Muhammad Naeem Ayyaz

Open source is the connective tissue for much of the information economy. You would be hard-pressed to find a scenario where your data does not pass through at least one open source component. Many of the services and technology we all rely…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Nicole Forsgren , Bas Alberts , Kevin Backhouse , Grey Baker , Greg Cecarelli , Derek Jedamski , Scot Kelly , Clair Sullivan

The Open Source Software movement has been growing exponentially for a number of years with no signs of slowing. Driving this growth is the widespread availability of libraries and frameworks that provide many functionalities. Developers…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Stan Zajdel , Diego Elias Costa , Hafedh Mili

Cloud computing is a complex infrastructure of software, hardware, processing, and storage that is available as a service. Cloud computing offers immediate access to large numbers of the world's most sophisticated supercomputers and their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-03-07 Sugata Sanyal , Parthasarathy P. Iyer

Measuring and analyzing the performance of software has reached a high complexity, caused by more advanced processor designs and the intricate interaction between user programs, the operating system, and the processor's microarchitecture.…

Performance · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Martin Becker , Samarjit Chakraborty

Reliability prediction is crucial for ensuring the safety and security of software systems, especially in the context of industry practices. While various metrics and measurements are employed to assess software reliability, the complexity…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Dapeng Yan , Wenjie Yang , Kui Liu , Zhiming Liu , Zhikuang Cai