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PLDI
2009
ACM
15 years 4 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...
KBSE
2007
IEEE
15 years 3 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
14 years 11 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
ESEM
2008
ACM
14 years 11 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
ASPLOS
2011
ACM
14 years 1 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...