Experimental computer systems research typically ignores the end-user, modeling him, if at all, in overly simple ways. We argue that this (1) results in inadequate performance eva...
Peter A. Dinda, Gokhan Memik, Robert P. Dick, Bin ...
Modern file systems associate the deletion of a file with the release of the storage associated with that file, and file writes with the irrevocable change of file contents. We pr...
Douglas J. Santry, Michael J. Feeley, Norman C. Hu...
Commercial operating systems have recently introduced mandatory access controls (MAC) that can be used to ensure system-wide data confidentiality and integrity. These protections...
System administrators work with many different tools to manage and fix complex hardware and software infrastructure in a rapidly paced work environment. Through extensive field st...
Eser Kandogan, Eben M. Haber, Rob Barrett, Allen C...
Liveness properties in concurrent systems are, informally, those properties that stipulate that something good eventually happens during execution. In order to prove that a given ...