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SOSP
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Tolerating hardware device failures in software
Hardware devices can fail, but many drivers assume they do not. When confronted with real devices that misbehave, these assumptions can lead to driver or system failures. While ma...
Asim Kadav, Matthew J. Renzelmann, Michael M. Swif...
SIGCSE
2010
ACM
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14 years 8 days ago
Teaching the principles of the hacker curriculum to undergraduates
The “Hacker Curriculum” exists as a mostly undocumented set of principles and methods for learning about information security. Hacking, in our view, is defined by the ability...
Sergey Bratus, Anna Shubina, Michael E. Locasto
SAFECOMP
2000
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Assessment of the Reliability of Fault-Tolerant Software: A Bayesian Approach
Fault tolerant systems based on the use of software design diversity may be able to achieve high levels of reliability more cost-effectively than other approaches, such as heroic ...
Bev Littlewood, Peter T. Popov, Lorenzo Strigini
ICSE
2003
IEEE-ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Automated Support for Classifying Software Failure Reports
This paper proposes automated support for classifying reported software failures in order to facilitate prioritizing them and diagnosing their causes. A classification strategy is...
Andy Podgurski, David Leon, Patrick Francis, Wes M...
APSEC
1997
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Detecting Common Mode Failures in N-Version Software Using Weakest Precondition Analysis
An underlying assumption for N-version programming technique is that independently developed versions would fail in a statistically independent mannel: Howevel; empirical studies ...
Gwang Sik Yoon, Sung Deok Cha, Yong Rae Kwon, Chan...