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SOSP
2003
ACM
16 years 15 days ago
Improving the reliability of commodity operating systems
Despite decades of research in extensible operating system technology, extensions such as device drivers remain a significant cause of system failures. In Windows XP, for example,...
Michael M. Swift, Brian N. Bershad, Henry M. Levy
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COMPSAC
2011
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Precise Propagation of Fault-Failure Correlations in Program Flow Graphs
Abstract—Statistical fault localization techniques find suspicious faulty program entities in programs by comparing passed and failed executions. Existing studies show that such ...
Zhenyu Zhang, W. K. Chan, T. H. Tse, Bo Jiang
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FASE
2009
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Algorithms for Automatically Computing the Causal Paths of Failures
We have proposed an automated debugging technique that explains a failure by computing its causal path leading from the root cause to the failure. Given a failing execution, the te...
William N. Sumner, Xiangyu Zhang
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ICPP
1999
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
Coherence-Centric Logging and Recovery for Home-Based Software Distributed Shared Memory
The probability of failures in software distributed shared memory (SDSM) increases as the system size grows. This paper introduces a new, efficient message logging technique, call...
Angkul Kongmunvattana, Nian-Feng Tzeng
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SOFTWARE
2002
15 years 3 months ago
Failure or Success?
The body of literature on SMEs suggest that all SMEs seem to go through different life cycles, and while the terms used by different authors may vary, the events that govern them ...