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KBSE
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Position paper: Meaningful updates to executing programs
Techniques to update executing programs are needed to maintain software for which downtime is not an option. Without guidelines, dynamic update may provoke unreliable and unpredic...
Pierre Duquesne, Ciarán Bryce
APSEC
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Correctness of Request Executions in Online Updates of Concurrent Object Oriented Programs
Online update is a technique that reduces the disruption caused by a software update. It does so by applying a patch to a running process as opposed to shutting down the process a...
Yogesh Murarka, Umesh Bellur
TOOLS
2000
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
More Meaningful UML Models
UML is widely used today for modelling complex systems. However, the tools support capabilities for UML is limited, partially due to its lack of precise semantics. There are some ...
Ileana Ober
VSTTE
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Toasters, Seat Belts, and Inferring Program Properties
Today’s software does not come with meaningful guarantees. This position paper explores why this is the case, suggests societal and technical impediments to more dependable softw...
David Evans
AOR
2006
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13 years 5 months ago
Preemptive Scheduling with Position Costs
This paper is devoted to basic scheduling problems in which the scheduling cost of a job is not a function of its completion time. Instead, the cost is derived from the integratio...
Francis Sourd