The layered design of the Linux operating system hides the liveness of file system data from the underlying block layers. This lack of liveness information prevents the storage sy...
Hard-disk drive power consumption reduction methods focus mainly on increasing the amount of time the disk is in standby mode (disk spun down) by implementing aggressive data read...
Existing package and system configuration management tools suffer from an imperative model, where system administration actions such as upgrading packages or changes to system con...
Text-based approaches to the analysis of software evolution are attractive because of the fine-grained, token-level comparisons they can generate. The use of such approaches has, ...
Austen Rainer, Peter C. R. Lane, James A. Malcolm,...
An approach to system verification is described in which design artefacts produced during forward engineering are automatically compared to corresponding artefacts produced during...
David J. A. Cooper, Benjamin Khoo, Brian R. von Ko...