We present a series of related patterns for aligning security and usability based on a substantial body of prior work. These patterns cover the issue of data sanitization, secure messaging, secure operation, and protection from covert monitoring.

Dynamic analysis, e.g. dynamic dependency analysis, requires the injection of monitoring code into an existing application. This paper presents an approach to automatically locate and process the required injection sites in the source code of a COBOL system and discusses issues arising from source-level instrumentation when applied to an industrial case study.

Software encoding countermeasures are becoming increasingly popular among researchers proposing code-level prevention against data-dependent leakage allowing an attacker to mount a side-channel attack. Recent trends show that it is possible to design a solution that does not require excessive overhead and yet provides a reasonable security level. However, if the device leakage is hard to be obs...

the development of yielded or failure zone due to an engineering construction is a subject of study in different disciplines. in petroleum engineering, depletion from and injection of gas into a porous rock can cause development of a yield zone around the reservoir. studying this phenomenon requires elasto-plastic analysis of geomaterial, in this case the porous rocks. in this study, which is a...

ORBIT, Objective Ring Beam Injection and Tracking, is a new C++ code developed for the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) project to build the most intense pulsed neutron source. The code includes H foil injection modelling features needed to simulate realistic injection scenarios. Because the SNS project will produce intense pulses, 1-2x10, of low energy protons, 1 GeV, and is concerned with keep...

Production strategy from a hydrocarbon reservoir plays an important role in optimal field development in the sense of maximizing oil recovery and economic profits. To this end, self-adapting optimization algorithms are necessary due to the great number of variables and the excessive time required for exhaustive simulation runs. Thus, this paper utilizes genetic algorithm (GA), and the objective...