Clusters of high-end workstations and PCs are currently used in many application domains to perform large-scale computations or as scalable servers for I/O bound tasks. Although c...
Drawing inspiration from several previous projects, we present an ownership-record-free software transactional memory (STM) system that combines extremely low overhead with unusua...
Luke Dalessandro, Michael F. Spear, Michael L. Sco...
A power grid is a complex system connecting electric power generators to consumers through power transmission and distribution networks across a large geographical area. System mo...
The usability of access control mechanisms in modern distributed systems has been widely criticized but little studied. In this paper, we carefully examine one such widely deploye...
We examine the problem of providing useful feedback about access control decisions to users while controlling the disclosure of the system’s security policies. Relevant feedback...
Apu Kapadia, Geetanjali Sampemane, Roy H. Campbell