This paper presents an approach for analyzing security-critical software for vulnerability to bu er overrun attacks. In practice, bu er overruns are a commonly exploited attack against security-critical software systems. Bu er overrun attacks are made possible by aws in designing and implementing software. This paper describes a software analysis tool that dynamically analyzes software source c...

The Standish Group reported in 1994 that the average cost overrun of software projects was as high as 189%. This cost overrun number is used as input in recent governmental reports on software development and as benchmark for several recent projects’ estimation performances. It is therefore important that we can trust this number. More recent cost overrun results reported by the Standish Group ...

Several studies have been carried out to investigate the causes of project cost overrun in different industries worldwide. This paper reports on the results of a study investigating the factors causing project cost overrun in Oman. Data required for this study were collected from 44 project engineers and managers of client and contracting companies involved in telecommunications projects. Accor...

Cost overruns are more common in infrastructure projects especially, more common in road construction activities. There existed a need to develop a probabilistic cost overrun analysis model in construction projects as a decision support tool for contractors before the bidding stage. The objective of this study is to identify the critical factors affecting cost overrun and obtain statistical mod...

This paper presents a mechanism for execution-overrun management in real-time systems. It is defined as the time budget a faulty task can use in case of execution overrun without compromising the real-time constraints of all the tasks in the system. This mechanism enables to cope with execution overrun before a deadline miss. Budget use the allowance notion which depends on free resources. We s...

Milk protein concentrate (MPC) is one of the major ingredients in foods due to its nutritional and functional properties including solubility, water binding, foaming, and emulsification. The foaming ability of milk proteins could potentially allow them to replace egg white protein; however, there is a lack of research on foaming properties of MPC. The goal of this study was to investigate the e...

A buffer overrun occurs in a C program when input is read into a buffer whose length exceeds that of the buffer. Overruns often lead to crashes and are a widespread form of security vulnerability. This paper describes an analysis for detecting overruns before deployment which is conservative in the sense that it locates every possible buffer overrun. The paper details the subtle relationship be...

„Cost Overrun‟ is one of the major factors for the failure of a software development project. The major reason for this difficulty is poor analysis and management of risk factors. This paper aims to find out the ways to manage and predict the overrun in this cost by using Influence Diagram (ID). Two major risk factors having adverse impact on the cost are decided to be: (1) creeping user requir...