Non-invasive Characterization of Out-Of-Bounds Write Vulnerabilities

As more and more aspects of our society and economy rely on software, security vulnerabilities in programs have become an increasingly significant threat. One such class of vulnerabilities are out-of-bounds writes, which are still one of the most widespread and dangerous types of security bugs in memory-unsafe programming languages five decades...

DiaMediPort increasing elderly agency by improving triage at home

The rapidly aging Dutch baby boom generation threatens to overwhelm the healthcare system in the Netherlands (Hoedeman & Koki, 2020). The elderly, more than any other age group, are more prone to experiencing a steep decline in physical and cognitive health during hospitalization (Brown, 2020; Mathews, Arnold & Epperson, 2014). 61% of...

Seamless Interactions Between Medical Professionals in Stressful Environment: Designing the statIQ smartwatch for combat medics of the Royal Netherlands Army

In recent years, societal trends and fears have shifted the focus of governmental institutions more and more on prevention of domestic emergencies (such as natural disasters, or terrorist attacks). These catastrophic events may result in mass casualty incidents, which are defined as: “[…] An event that overwhelms the local healthcare system,...

Prioritizing pull requests

Previous work showed that in the pull-based development model integrators face challenges with regard to prioritizing work in the face of multiple concurrent pull requests. We identified the manual prioritization heuristics applied by integrators and extracted features from these heuristics. The features are used to train a machine learning...

ISET self-triage system for the Rotterdam Eye Hospital

The Rotterdam Ophthalmic institute is developing a self-triage instrument - named the ISET - for the Rotterdam Eye Hospital (OZR). During development it became clear that the software was functional but the usability of the and the appearance of the device needed more attention This project’s aim was to improve usability for both patients and...

Investigating the usefulness of stack traces in bug triaging

In software engineering, resources such as time, money and developers, are limited. Often when bugs are found in the software developed, bug triaging is used to prioritise bug reports and allocate resources to it. When the number of bugs is considerable, this will require a vast amount of time and effort. The goal of this research is to...