4. HotDep 2008: San Diego, CA, USA

Software Reliability

• Vitaly Chipounov, George Candea:
  Reverse-Engineering Drivers for Safety and Portability.
  
• Alex Depoutovitch, Michael Stumm:
  "Otherworld": Giving Applications a Chance to Survive OS Kernel Crashes.
  
• Yohann Coppel, George Candea:
  Deprogramming Large Software Systems.
  

Redundancy

• Kevin M. Greenan, Darrell D. E. Long, Ethan L. Miller, Thomas J. E. Schwarz, Jay J. Wylie:
  A Spin-Up Saved Is Energy Earned: Achieving Power-Efficient, Erasure-Coded Storage.
  
• Derek Gordon Murray, Steven Hand:
  Spread-Spectrum Computation.
  

Modeling

• George Candea:
  Toward Quantifying System Manageability.
  
• Haohui Mai, Chongnan Gao, Xuezheng Liu, Xi Wang, Geoffrey M. Voelker:
  Towards Automatic Inference of Task Hierarchies in Complex Systems.
  
• Amitanand S. Aiyer, Eric Anderson, Xiaozhou Li, Mehul A. Shah, Jay J. Wylie:
  Consistability: Describing Usually Consistent Systems.
  

Distributed Systems

• Nuno M. Preguiça, Rodrigo Rodrigues, Cristóvão Honorato, João Lourenço:
  Byzantium: Byzantine-Fault-Tolerant Database Replication Providing Snapshot Isolation.
  
• Andreas Haeberlen, Rodrigo Rodrigues, P. Krishna Gummadi, Peter Druschel:
  Pretty Good Packet Authentication.
  
• Qin Yin, Justin Cappos, Andrew Baumann, Timothy Roscoe:
  Dependable Self-Hosting Distributed Systems Using Constraints.