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VEE
2012
ACM
226views Virtualization» more  VEE 2012»
12 years 3 months ago
Protecting applications against TOCTTOU races by user-space caching of file metadata
Time Of Check To Time Of Use (TOCTTOU) race conditions for file accesses in user-space applications are a common problem in Unix-like systems. The mapping between filename and i...
Mathias Payer, Thomas R. Gross
PPOPP
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Safe open-nested transactions through ownership
Researchers in transactional memory (TM) have proposed open nesting as a methodology for increasing the concurrency of transactional programs. The idea is to ignore "low-leve...
Kunal Agrawal, I.-Ting Angelina Lee, Jim Sukha
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
169views Database» more  SIGMOD 2008»
14 years 7 months ago
MCDB: a monte carlo approach to managing uncertain data
To deal with data uncertainty, existing probabilistic database systems augment tuples with attribute-level or tuple-level probability values, which are loaded into the database al...
Ravi Jampani, Fei Xu, Mingxi Wu, Luis Leopoldo Per...
CGO
2010
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Exploiting statistical correlations for proactive prediction of program behaviors
This paper presents a finding and a technique on program behavior prediction. The finding is that surprisingly strong statistical correlations exist among the behaviors of diffe...
Yunlian Jiang, Eddy Z. Zhang, Kai Tian, Feng Mao, ...
ICALP
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Improved Bounds for Speed Scaling in Devices Obeying the Cube-Root Rule
Speed scaling is a power management technique that involves dynamically changing the speed of a processor. This gives rise to dualobjective scheduling problems, where the operating...
Nikhil Bansal, Ho-Leung Chan, Kirk Pruhs, Dmitriy ...