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SOSP
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Fast byte-granularity software fault isolation
Bugs in kernel extensions remain one of the main causes of poor operating system reliability despite proposed techniques that isolate extensions in separate protection domains to ...
Miguel Castro, Manuel Costa, Jean-Philippe Martin,...
ECOOP
2009
Springer
14 years 8 months ago
Making Sense of Large Heaps
Abstract. It is common for large-scale Java applications to suffer memory problems, whether inefficient designs that impede scalability, or lifetime bugs such as leaks. Making sens...
Nick Mitchell, Edith Schonberg, Gary Sevitsky
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
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14 years 8 months ago
Dereferee: exploring pointer mismanagement in student code
Dynamic memory management and the use of pointers are critical topics in teaching the C++ language. They are also some of the most difficult for students to grasp properly. The re...
Anthony Allevato, Manuel A. Pérez-Qui&ntild...
EUROPAR
2010
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Multithreaded Geant4: Semi-automatic Transformation into Scalable Thread-Parallel Software
This work presents an application case study. Geant4 is a 750,000 line toolkit first designed in the mid-1990s and originally intended only for sequential computation. Intel's...
Xin Dong 0004, Gene Cooperman, John Apostolakis
TCSV
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Dynamic Proposal Variance and Optimal Particle Allocation in Particle Filtering for Video Tracking
Abstract--This paper presents a novel particle allocation approach to particle filtering which minimizes the total tracking distortion for a fixed number of particles over a video ...
Pan Pan, Dan Schonfeld