Proceedings of the Sixteenth ACM Symposium on Operating System Principles, October 5-8, 1997, St. Malo, France, Operating System Review 31(5), ACM Press, 1997, ISBN 0-89791-916-5

Performance and Correctness

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  Jennifer-Ann M. Anderson, Lance M. Berc, Jeffrey Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Monika Rauch Henzinger, Shun-Tak Leung, Richard L. Sites, Mark T. Vandevoorde, Carl A. Waldspurger, William E. Weihl: Continuous Profiling: Where Have All the Cycles Gone? 1-14
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  Xiaolan Zhang, Zheng Wang, Nicholas C. Gloy, J. Bradley Chen, Michael D. Smith: System Support for Automated Profiling and Optimization. 15-26
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  Stefan Savage, Michael Burrows, Greg Nelson, Patrick Sobalvarro, Thomas E. Anderson: Eraser: A Dynamic Data Race Detector for Multi-Threaded Programs. 27-37

Kernels and OS Structure

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  Bryan Ford, Godmar Back, Greg Benson, Jay Lepreau, Albert Lin, Olin Shivers: The Flux OSKit: A Substrate for Kernel and Language Research. 38-51
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  M. Frans Kaashoek, Dawson R. Engler, Gregory R. Ganger, Héctor M. Briceño, Russell Hunt, David Mazières, Thomas Pinckney, Robert Grimm, John Jannotti, Kenneth Mackenzie: Application Performance and Flexibility on Exokernel Systems. 52-65
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  Hermann Härtig, Michael Hohmuth, Jochen Liedtke, Sebastian Schönberg, Jean Wolter: The Performance of µKernel-Based Systems. 66-77

Network and Data Services

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  Armando Fox, Steven D. Gribble, Yatin Chawathe, Eric A. Brewer, Paul Gauthier: Cluster-Based Scalable Network Services. 78-91
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  David E. Lowell, Peter M. Chen: Free Transactions With Rio Vista. 92-101
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  Miguel Castro, Atul Adya, Barbara Liskov, Andrew C. Myers: HAC: Hybrid Adaptive Caching for Distributed Storage Systems. 102-115

Security

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  Dan S. Wallach, Dirk Balfanz, Drew Dean, Edward W. Felten: Extensible Security Architecture for Java. 116-128
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  Andrew C. Myers, Barbara Liskov: A Decentralized Model for Information Flow Control. 129-142

Multiprocessing Support

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  Edouard Bugnion, Scott Devine, Mendel Rosenblum: DISCO: Running Commodity Operating Systems on Scalable Multiprocessors. 143-156
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  Daniel J. Scales, Kourosh Gharachorloo: Towards Transparent and Efficient Software Distributed Shared Memory. 157-169
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  Robert Stets, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Nikos Hardavellas, Galen C. Hunt, Leonidas I. Kontothanassis, Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Michael L. Scott: Cashmere-2L: Software Coherent Shared Memory on a Clustered Remote-Write Network. 170-183

Scheduling for Multimedia

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  Jason Nieh, Monica S. Lam: The Design, Implementation and Evaluation of SMART: A Scheduler for Multimedia Applications. 184-197
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  Michael B. Jones, Daniela Rosu, Marcel-Catalin Rosu: CPU Reservations and Time Constraints: Efficient, Predictable Scheduling of Independent Activities. 198-211
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  William J. Bolosky, Robert P. Fitzgerald, John R. Douceur: Distributed Schedule Management in the Tiger Video Fileserver. 212-223

File Systems and I/O

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  Chandramohan A. Thekkath, Timothy Mann, Edward K. Lee: Frangipani: A Scalable Distributed File System. 224-237
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  Jeanna M. Neefe, Drew S. Roselli, Adam M. Costello, Randolph Y. Wang, Thomas E. Anderson: Improving the Performance of Log-Structured File Systems with Adaptive Methods. 238-251
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  David C. Steere: Exploiting the Non-Determinism and Asynchrony of Set Iterators to Reduce Aggregate File I/O Latency. 252-263

Mobile Systems

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  Geoffrey H. Kuenning, Gerald J. Popek: Automated Hoarding for Mobile Computers. 264-275
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  Brian Noble, Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Dushyanth Narayanan, J. Eric Tilton, Jason Flinn, Kevin R. Walker: Agile Application-Aware Adaptation for Mobility. 276-287
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  Karin Petersen, Mike Spreitzer, Douglas B. Terry, Marvin Theimer, Alan J. Demers: Flexible Update Propagation for Weakly Consistent Replication. 288-301