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IEEE
15 years 2 months ago
Partition Repositories for Partition Cloning - OS Independent Software Maintenance in Large Clusters of PCs
As a novel approach to software maintenance in large clusters of PCs requiring multiple OS installations we implemented partition cloning and partition repositories as well as a s...
Felix Rauch, Christian Kurmann, Thomas Stricker
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ICSE
2009
IEEE-ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Listening to programmers - Taxonomies and characteristics of comments in operating system code
Innovations from multiple directions have been proposed to improve software reliability. Unfortunately, many of the innovations are not fully exploited by programmers. To bridge t...
Yoann Padioleau, Lin Tan, Yuanyuan Zhou
WOSP
2010
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Reducing performance non-determinism via cache-aware page allocation strategies
Performance non-determinism in computer systems complicates evaluation, use, and even development of these systems. In performance evaluation via benchmarking and simulation, nond...
Michal Hocko, Tomás Kalibera
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WSE
2006
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Ontology-based Program Comprehension Tool Supporting Website Architectural Evolution
A challenge of existing program comprehension approaches is to provide consistent and flexible representations for software systems. Maintainers have to match their mental models ...
Yonggang Zhang, René Witte, Juergen Rilling...
PLDI
2003
ACM
15 years 2 months ago
Checking and inferring local non-aliasing
In prior work [15] we studied a language construct restrict that allows programmers to specify that certain pointers are not aliased to other pointers used within a lexical scope....
Alexander Aiken, Jeffrey S. Foster, John Kodumal, ...