Methods of formal description and verification represent a viable way for achieving fundamentally bug-free software. However, in reality only a small subset of the existing operati...
Abstract: A virtual-machine monitor (VMM) is a useful technique for adding functionality below existing operating system and application software. One class of VMMs (called Type II...
This paper evaluates the performance of three popular versions of the UNIX operating system on the x86 architecture: Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris. We evaluate the systems using fre...
When creating mission-critical distributed systems using off-the-shelf components, it is important to assess the dependability of not only the hardware, but the software as well. ...
Philip J. Koopman Jr., John Sung, Christopher P. D...