Software’s expense owes partly to frequent reimplementation of similar functionality and partly to maintenance of patches, ports or components targeting evolving interfaces. Mor...
While a typical software component has a clearly specified (static) interface in terms of the methods and the input/output types they support, information about the correct sequen...
With the spread of the Internet the computing model on server systems is undergoing several important changes. Recent research ideas concerning dynamic operating system extensibil...
The paper describes the application of SDL-92[1] and OMT[2] to the design of a V5.x Access Network interface. While OMT is used to model the management aspects of the system, typi...
This paper describes the development of a virtual-machine monitor (VMM) security kernel for the VAX architecture. The paper particularly focuses on how the system's hardware,...
Paul A. Karger, Mary Ellen Zurko, Douglas W. Bonin...