Traditional file system development is difficult. Stackable file systems promise to ease the development of file systems by offering a mechanism for incremental development. Unfor...
A new approach to military operations, called Anticipatory Planning and Adaptive Execution, treats planning and execution as a tightly coupled, single process, and replaces reacti...
Emerging applications in electronic commerce often involve very low-cost transactions, which execute in the context of ongoing, extended clientserver relationships. For example, c...
Yossi Matias, Alain J. Mayer, Abraham Silberschatz
The locality of the data in parallel programs is known to have a strong impact on the performance of distributed-memory multiprocessor systems. The worse the locality in access pa...
Xinmin Tian, Shashank S. Nemawarkar, Guang R. Gao,...
This paper describes a mechanism by which an operating system kernel can determine with certainty that it is safe to execute a binary supplied by an untrusted source. The kernel r...