Often network components work correctly, yet end-to-end services don’t. This happens if configuration parameters of components are set to incorrect values. Configuration is a fu...
Inter-process communication (ipc) has to be fast and e ective, otherwise programmers will not use remote procedure calls(RPC),multithreadingand multitasking adequately. Thus ipc p...
The ideal software contract fully specifies the behavior of an operation. Often, in particular in the context of scripting languages, a full specification may be cumbersome to s...
Phillip Heidegger, Annette Bieniusa, Peter Thieman...
The emergence of multicore architectures will lead to an increase in the use of multithreaded applications that are prone to synchronization bugs, such as data races. Software sol...
Suppose a long-running analytical query is executing on a database server and has been allocated a large amount of physical memory. A high-priority task comes in and we need to ru...
Badrish Chandramouli, Christopher N. Bond, Shivnat...