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This paper details the creation of a novel Virtual Reality-based application for the Industrial Metaverse aimed at shipboard fire emergency training for fire drill and evacuation, aligned with the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) convention requirements. ...

We report on the design of a study to measure how the introduction of middleware software components could impact confidence in an institution. Middleware is software that runs in the background and thus cannot be perceived directly by end-users of ...

A legacy of print is that much of our process and tooling is predicated on using text in paginated form, such as was required for (paper) printed media. Increasingly, digitally-created (‘born-digital’) documents will never be used non-digitally and yet ...

The scholarly edition canonizes and centralizes the work of any writer and provides an academic touchstone for further research. Drawing upon a model of scholarly editions proposed by Christopher Ohge based in philosophical pragmatism, the authors of ...

Histories of hypertext have largely upheld a view of its subject as fundamentally interdisciplinary, recognising those phases of outside influence that have waxed and waned over the decades. Film and literary studies, social sciences and book history: ...

Remote procedure calls are the workhorse of distributed systems. However, as software engineering trends, such as micro-services and serverless computing, push applications towards ever finer-grained decompositions, the overhead of RPC-based ...

Systems services running at user level provide several benefits including execution isolation, flexible software development and fast device access. The FUSE framework adds backward compatibility to user-level filesystems but at a performance cost. We ...

This paper introduces the framekernel architecture, a novel approach to operating system (OS) design that utilizes safe language-based, intra-kernel privilege separation. This architecture combines the security advantages of microkernels with the ...

Thanks to recent advances in high-bandwidth, low-latency interconnects, running a data-intensive application with a remote memory pool is now a feasibility. When developing a data-intensive application, a managed language such as Java is often the ...

Cloud providers offer storage-optimized VMs equipped with locally attached storage to meet the high performance requirements of cloud users. However, current cloud providers cannot enable live migration for storage-optimized VMs due to the high resource ...

Body-worn medical devices benefit from having a companion mobile application to monitor them and even program them. For example, the companion application for an insulin pump can be used to automatically monitor blood sugar level throughout the day and ...

Remote procedure calls are a major contributor to performance variance in distributed systems due to lack of isolation and contention on shared resources. We propose a novel split architecture for a popular RPC framework, gRPC. The design partitions RPC ...

Direct access (DAX) file systems for persistent memory (PM) perform reads and writes through load and store instructions, respectively, bypassing the I/O path inside the operating system (OS) kernel. However, because of this, the OS is unable to ...

This paper explores a programming technique that enables process scheduling policy development in user space by only using common Operating System (OS) features. We propose a mechanism called the priority elevation trick that actively manipulates the ...

The return-oriented programming (ROP) is a prevalent code reuse attack. It exploits vulnerabilities such as stack overflows to hijack the execution flow into the carefully chosen instruction snippet (called gadget) chain already in the memory. Address ...

The landscape of memory technologies has grown substantially more diverse and heterogeneous, with a number of special-purpose memory technologies reaching market maturity in recent years, such as NVRAM (Non-Volatile Memory), HBM (High-Bandwidth Memory) ...

Local communities engage production systems based on a set of agreed quality standards to which each member must adhere. Most of these systems, from local food production to renewable energy communities, require continuous and transparent monitoring of ...

The increasing development and utilization of Large Language Model (LLM) services have demonstrated many benefits in different contexts. However, LLM services are mainly available in the public cloud and require huge computing resources to operate, thus ...