In recent years, various platforms have witnessed an unprecedented increase in the number of ransomware attacks targeting hospitals, governments, enterprises, and end-users. The purpose this is to maliciously encrypt documents files on infected machines, depriving victims access their data, whereupon attackers would seek some sort a ransom return for restoring legitimate owners; hence name. Thi...

The introduction of self-healing capabilities to software systems could offer a way to alter the current, unfavorable imbalance in the software security arms race. Consequently, self-healing software systems have emerged as a research area of particular interest in recent years. Motivated by the inability of traditional techniques to guarantee software integrity and availability, especially aga...

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The mechanical durability of conductive materials affects the performance and lifetimes of devices ranging from electrical circuits to battery electrode materials. Mismatches in thermal expansion coeffi cient, Young’s modulus, and Poisson’s ratio between the conductive materials and packaging materials in integrated circuits lead to delaminations and fractures both within conductive pathways an...

Nowadays wireless sensor networks have found their way into a wide variety of applications and systems with vastly varying requirements and characteristics, but all of them have a common element: faults are a normal fact and not isolated events as in traditional networks. Thus, in order to guarantee the network quality of service, it is essential for the sensor network to be able to detect and ...