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SIGCOMM
2010
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
The case for active device drivers
We revisit the device-driver architecture supported by the majority of operating systems, where a driver is a passive object that does not have its own thread of control and is on...
Leonid Ryzhyk, Yanjin Zhu, Gernot Heiser
VSTTE
2005
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Implications of a Data Structure Consistency Checking System
Abstract. We present a framework for verifying that programs correctly preserve important data structure consistency properties. Results from our implemented system indicate that o...
Viktor Kuncak, Patrick Lam, Karen Zee, Martin C. R...
MCS
2007
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Index Driven Combination of Multiple Biometric Experts for AUC Maximisation
A biometric system produces a matching score representing the degree of similarity of the input with the set of templates for that user. If the score is greater than a prefixed th...
Roberto Tronci, Giorgio Giacinto, Fabio Roli
SRDS
2000
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
Optimal Implementation of the Weakest Failure Detector for Solving Consensus
The concept of unreliable failure detector was introduced by Chandra and Toueg [2] as a mechanism that provides information about process failures. Depending on the properties the...
Mikel Larrea, Antonio Fernández, Sergio Ar&...
HOTOS
2007
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
Automatic Mutual Exclusion
We propose a new concurrent programming model, Automatic Mutual Exclusion (AME). In contrast to lock-based programming, and to other programming models built over software transac...
Michael Isard, Andrew Birrell