In this paper, we will provide an overview of the current state-of-theart with regards to so-called cold boot attacks, their practical applicability and feasibility, potential counter-measures and their effectiveness.

Abstract: In this paper, we study the reliability measures of a repairable system with M operating units, W warm standby units, and R repairmen in which switching failures and reboot delay are considered. It is assumed that there is a significant failure probability q in the switching process. Failure times of an operating unit and of a standby unit are assumed to be exponentially distributed w...

As software complexity increases so does the difficulty in solving all software defects before the production stage, even with advanced software testing tools. Those software defects are often the cause for application crashes. To tolerate application crashes the industry has adopted several clustering techniques: server-redundancy, load-balancers and server-failover. The latest trend goes towa...

Adaptations, modifications, and realignments of religious doctrine and practice can be found in any period of social history. It can be official and highly orchestrated (as in Vatican II) but more often it takes a subjective and reactionary form (as in the Hindutva movement). This paper promotes the idea of “experimental religion” as both an analytical concept and an observable set of behaviors...

There is a common agreement that increased successful reuse will lead to higher quality software at a lower cost. Object-oriented development techniques have advantages like limited semantic gap between design and implementation, en-capsulation, and inheritance which all promote reuse. To achieve reuse in an object-oriented context the components have to be classiied and ordered for retrieval a...