Many applications demand availability. Unfortunately, software failures greatly reduce
system availability. Prior work on surviving software failures suffers from one or more of the …

Stealth malware programs that silently infect enterprise and consumer machines are
becoming a major threat to the future of the Internet. Resource hiding is a powerful stealth …

In this paper, a virtual distributed monitoring environment called HyperSpector is described
that achieves secure intrusion detection in distributed computer systems. While multiple …

(57) ABSTRACT A method is provided for the recovery of an instance of a job manager
running on one of a plurality of nodes used to execute the processing elements associated …

The default behavior of all commodity operating systems today is to restart the system when
a critical error is encountered in the kernel. This terminates all running applications with an …

Driven by the emergence of pervasive computing and the increasing need for self-managed
systems, many approaches have been proposed for building software that can dynamically …

Smart personal devices equipped with a wide range of sensors and peripherals can
potentially be misused in various environments. They can be used to exfiltrate sensitive …

Many applications demand availability. Unfortunately, software failures greatly reduce
system availability. Prior work on surviving software failures suffers from one or more of the …

Reinforcement learning for autonomic network repair Page 1 Reinforcement Learning for
Autonomic Network Repair Michael L. Littman and Nishkam Ravi Department of Computer …

It is difficult to completely avoid system failures in recent large-scale and complex clouds.
Therefore, it is important to detect system faults as symptoms of failures and then recover …