Abstract. Enterprise-system upgrades are unreliable and often produce downtime or data-loss. Errors in the upgrade procedure, such as broken dependencies, constitute the leading ca...
In 1986 Jim Gray published his landmark study of the causes of failures of Tandem systems and the techniques Tandem used to prevent such failures [6]. Seventeen years later, Inter...
David L. Oppenheimer, Archana Ganapathi, David A. ...
In this paper we analyze the problem of schema matching, explain why it is such a "tough" problem and suggest directions for handling it effectively. In particular, we p...
Software configuration problems are a major source of failures in computer systems. In this paper, we present a new framework for categorizing configuration problems. We apply thi...
Archana Ganapathi, Yi-Min Wang, Ni Lao, Ji-Rong We...
Scientists are increasingly using large distributed systems built from commodity off-the-shelf components to perform scientific computation. Grid computing has expanded the scale ...