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SRDS
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Reducing the Availability Management Overheads of Federated Content Sharing Systems
We consider the problem of ensuring high data availability in federated content sharing systems. Ideally, such a system would provide high data availability in a device transparen...
Christopher Peery, Thu D. Nguyen, Francisco Matias...
BSDCON
2003
13 years 8 months ago
An Automated Binary Security Update System for FreeBSD
With the present trend towards increased reliance upon computer systems, the provision and prompt application of security patches is becoming vital. Developers of all operating sy...
Colin Percival
SRDS
2000
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Optimistic Virtual Synchrony
Group communication systems are powerful building blocks that facilitate the development of fault-tolerant distributed applications. Such systems generally run in an asynchronous ...
Jeremy B. Sussman, Idit Keidar, Keith Marzullo
HOTOS
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Processor Hardware Counter Statistics as a First-Class System Resource
Today's processors provide a rich source of statistical information on program execution characteristics through hardware counters. However, traditionally, operating system (...
Xiao Zhang, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Girts Folkmanis, Ka...
ER
2000
Springer
114views Database» more  ER 2000»
13 years 11 months ago
From Web Sites to Web Applications: New Issues for Conceptual Modeling
Abstract E-commerce, web-based booking systems, and on-line auction systems are only a few examples that demonstrate how WWW sites are evolving from hypermedia information reposito...
Luciano Baresi, Franca Garzotto, Paolo Paolini