Multiprocessor operating systems (OSs) pose several unique and conflicting challenges to System Virtual Machines (System VMs). For example, most existing system VMs resort to gan...
Philip M. Wells, Koushik Chakraborty, Gurindar S. ...
Bitwise operations are commonly used in low-level systems code to access multiple data fields that have been packed into a single word. Program analysis tools that reason about s...
Ubiquitous Computing Environments feature massively distributed systems containing a large number of devices, services and applications that help end-users perform various kinds o...
Chetan Shiva Shankar, Anand Ranganathan, Roy H. Ca...
In this paper, we present an approach for realizing a safe execution environment (SEE) that enables users to “try out” new software (or configuration changes to existing soft...
Weiqing Sun, Zhenkai Liang, V. N. Venkatakrishnan,...
In order to effectively validate the performance of software systems throughout their development cycle it is necessary to continuously build performance models from software mod...