It is commonly appreciated that solving search problems optimally can overrun time and memory constraints. Bounded suboptimal search algorithms trade increased solution cost for reduced solving time and memory consumption. However, even suboptimal search can overrun memory on large problems. The conventional approach to this problem is to combine a weighted admissible heuristic with an optimal ...

Sites use firewalls to defend against external attacks while providing necessary Internet services. Firewalls make a site safer: they present a smaller risk since they provide fewer services. However, most firewalls use standard computer operating systems. This can allow an attacker to overrun the firewall if a known security flaw is present. The Sidewinder firewall system overcomes this proble...

Time, cost and quality have their proven importance as the prime measures for project success. However, the history of the construction industry worldwide is full of projects that were completed with significant time and cost overruns. This study is conducted to investigate the occurrence frequency of time overrun causes in road construction projects in the West Bank in Palestine from contracto...

Nowadays, the embedded systems are undergoing an unprecedented trend towards integrating components or tasks of different criticality levels onto a common computing platform, as the task integration can reduce the “SWaP” (Size, Weight, and Power) related costs. Those systems, commonly referred to mixed-criticality systems, consist of functionalities with two or more distinct criticality levels,...

We describe a new technique for finding potential buffer overrun vulnerabilities in security-critical C code. The key to success is to use static analysis: we formulate detection of buffer overruns as an integer range analysis problem. One major advantage of static analysis is that security bugs can be eliminated before code is deployed. We have implemented our design and used our prototype to ...

One common problem in the construction industry is project cost overrun. Cost overrun can have significant impacts on financial profitability, completion, quality, and stakeholder satisfaction. The average percentage of vary widely depending type, size, complexity, location. Many approaches be adopted to prevent or mitigate overrun, one them a more accurate estimate prediction. Several studies ...

abstract: this paper presents the results of studies concerned with the preparation of fresh food foams based on egg white and various hydrocolloids including iranian gum tragacanth, guar and xanthan gums at different concentrations (0.002-0.040% w/w). the basic physical parameters of the obtained foams such as overrun, stability and morphology of gas bubbles were measured. viscosity measuremen...