[1] The Faroe Bank Channel (FBC) is the deepest connection between the Atlantic Ocean and the Nordic Seas. This work describes the dynamic properties of the plume of dense overflow water descending from the Faroe Bank Channel using time series data for velocity and temperature from a network of 25 moorings deployed west of the Faroe Bank Channel between July 1999 and February 2001. The cold wat...

Buffer overflow attacks are a major cause of security breaches in modern operating systems. Not only are overflows of buffers on the stack a security threat, overflows of buffers kept on the heap can be too. A malicious user might be able to hijack the control flow of a root-privileged program if the user can initiate an overflow of a buffer on the heap when this overflow overwrites a function ...

Motivated by bursty bandwidth allocation and the of virtual machines to servers in cloud, we consider online problem packing items with random sizes into unit-capacity bins. Items arrive sequentially, but on arrival, an item’s actual size is unknown; only its probabilistic information available decision maker. Without knowing this size, maker must irrevocably pack item bin or place it a new bin...

In this paper we presents results of research about elderly users of Stack Overflow (Question and Answer portal for programmers). They have different roles, different main activities and different habits. They are an important part of the community, as they tend to have higher reputation and they like to share their knowledge. This is a great example of possible way of keeping elderly people ac...

Our research is about identifying gaps in the knowledge of professional software developers, as part of an ongoing project to provide tools to support their lifelong learning needs. We developed metrics that when applied to programmers’ online activities in Stack Overflow allowed us to determine the knowledge states of users on specific topics indicating what each user knows they know and their...