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PLDI
2009
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
Error propagation analysis for file systems
Unchecked errors are especially pernicious in operating system file management code. Transient or permanent hardware failures are inevitable, and error-management bugs at the fi...
Cindy Rubio-González, Haryadi S. Gunawi, Be...
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KBSE
2007
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
Effective memory protection using dynamic tainting
Programs written in languages that provide direct access to memory through pointers often contain memory-related faults, which may cause non-deterministic failures and even securi...
James A. Clause, Ioannis Doudalis, Alessandro Orso...
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ATAL
2006
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
On proactivity and maintenance goals
Goals are an important concept in intelligent agent systems, and can take a variety of forms. One such form is maintenance goals, which, unlike achievement goals, define states th...
Simon Duff, James Harland, John Thangarajah
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ESEM
2008
ACM
15 years 2 months ago
Why do programmers avoid metrics?
Software process improvement initiatives such as metrics programs have a high failure rate during their assimilation in a software organization. Social and organizational issues a...
Medha Umarji, Carolyn B. Seaman
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ASPLOS
2011
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
NV-Heaps: making persistent objects fast and safe with next-generation, non-volatile memories
nt, user-defined objects present an attractive abstraction for working with non-volatile program state. However, the slow speed of persistent storage (i.e., disk) has restricted ...
Joel Coburn, Adrian M. Caulfield, Ameen Akel, Laur...