The performance of file systems and related software depends on characteristics of the underlying file-system image (i.e., file-system metadata and file contents). Unfortunately, ...
Nitin Agrawal, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. ...
Abstract. Many software applications are based on collaborating, yet competing, agents or virtual organisations exchanging services. Contracts, expressing obligations, permissions ...
In recent technology nodes, reliability is considered a part of the standard design flow at all levels of embedded system design. While techniques that use only low-level models at...
Michael A. Kochte, Christian G. Zoellin, Rafal Bar...
A key feature of relational database applications is managing plural relationships—one-to-many and many-to-many— between entities. However, since it is often infeasible to ado...
There have been many attacks that exploit side-effects of program execution to expose secret information and many proposed countermeasures to protect against these attacks. Howeve...
John Demme, Robert Martin, Adam Waksman, Simha Set...