ESOP
2012
Springer
12 years 2 months ago
2012
Springer
Communicating finite state machines (CFSMs) represent processes which communicate by asynchronous exchanges of messages via FIFO channels. Their major impact has been in character...
ESOP
2012
Springer
12 years 2 months ago
2012
Springer
Abstract. This paper presents GMeta: a generic framework for firstorder representations of variable binding that provides once and for all many of the so-called infrastructure lem...
ESOP
2012
Springer
12 years 2 months ago
2012
Springer
A lock placement describes, for each heap location, which lock guards the location, and under what circumstances. We formalize methods for reasoning about lock placements, making p...
ASPLOS
2012
ACM
12 years 2 months ago
2012
ACM
Direct device assignment enhances the performance of guest virtual machines by allowing them to communicate with I/O devices without host involvement. But even with device assignm...
ASPLOS
2012
ACM
12 years 2 months ago
2012
ACM
Future microprocessors need low-cost solutions for reliable operation in the presence of failure-prone devices. A promising approach is to detect hardware faults by deploying low-...
ASPLOS
2012
ACM
12 years 2 months ago
2012
ACM
Device drivers are the single largest contributor to operating-system kernel code with over 5 million lines of code in the Linux kernel, and cause significant complexity, bugs an...
ASPLOS
2012
ACM
12 years 2 months ago
2012
ACM
Processor emulators are widely used to provide isolation and instrumentation of binary software. However they have proved difficult to implement correctly: processor specificati...
ASPLOS
2012
ACM
12 years 2 months ago
2012
ACM
Numerous data center services exhibit low average utilization leading to poor energy efficiency. Although CPU voltage and frequency scaling historically has been an effective mea...
ASPLOS
2012
ACM
12 years 2 months ago
2012
ACM
Dynamic binary translation (DBT) is a powerful technique that enables fine-grained monitoring and manipulation of an existing program binary. At the user level, it has been emplo...
ASPLOS
2012
ACM
12 years 2 months ago
2012
ACM
Virtualization has become a standard part of many computer systems. A key part of virtualization is the all-powerful hypervisor which manages the physical platform and can access ...