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POPL
2010
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2010
ACM
Since Findler and Felleisen [2002] introduced higher-order contracts, many variants have been proposed. Broadly, these fall into two groups: some follow Findler and Felleisen in u...
EUROSYS
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2009
ACM
Memory bugs in C/C++ programs severely affect system availability and security. This paper presents First-Aid, a lightweight runtime system that survives software failures caused ...
EUROSYS
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2009
ACM
This paper evaluates pointer tainting, an incarnation of Dynamic Information Flow Tracking (DIFT), which has recently become an important technique in system security. Pointer tai...
EUROSYS
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2007
ACM
We present a memory-aware load balancing (MALB) technique to dispatch transactions to replicas in a replicated database. Our MALB algorithm exploits knowledge of the working sets ...
EUROSYS
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2006
ACM
—Restoring data operations after a disaster is a daunting task: how should recovery be performed to minimize data loss and application downtime? Administrators are under consider...