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DCOSS
2009
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
2009
Springer
Abstract. Many applications for irrigation management and environment monitoring exploit buried sensors wired-connected to the soil surface for information retrieval. Wireless Unde...
CSMR
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2008
IEEE
Effort to evolve and maintain a software system is likely to vary depending on the amount and frequency of change requests. This paper proposes to model change requests as time se...
EUROSYS
2011
ACM
13 years 5 days ago
2011
ACM
Multicore computers pose a substantial challenge to infrastructure software such as operating systems or databases. Such software typically evolves slower than the underlying hard...
ICSE
2009
IEEE-ACM
14 years 9 months ago
2009
IEEE-ACM
Designers of concurrent programs are faced with many choices of synchronization mechanisms, among which clear functional trade-offs exist. Making synchronization customizable is h...
OSDI
2004
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
2004
ACM
Operator mistakes are a significant source of unavailability in modern Internet services. In this paper, we first characterize these mistakes by performing an extensive set of exp...