2009

Cloud9: A Software Testing Service. Liviu Ciortea, Cristian Zamfir, Stefan Bucur, Vitaly Chipounov, George Candea. 3rd SOSP Workshop on Large Scale Distributed Systems and Middleware (LADIS), Big Sky, MT, October 2009.

A Scalable, Predictable Join Operator for Highly Concurrent Data Warehouses. George Candea, Neoklis Polyzotis, Radek Vingralek. 35th Intl. Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), Lyon, France, August 2009.

Drivolution: Rethinking the Database Driver Lifecycle. Emmanuel Cecchet and George Candea. 10th ACM/USENIX Intl. Middleware Conf. (Middleware), Industrial Track, Urbana-Champaign, IL, December 2009.

Selective Symbolic Execution. Vitaly Chipounov, Vlad Georgescu, Cristian Zamfir, George Candea. 5th Workshop on Hot Topics in System Dependability (HotDep), Lisbon, Portugal, June 2009.

PathScore-Relevance: A Metric for Improving Test Quality. Silviu Andrica and George Candea. 5th Workshop on Hot Topics in System Dependability (HotDep), Lisbon, Portugal, June 2009.

LFI: A Practical and General Library-Level Fault Injector. Paul Marinescu and George Candea. Intl. Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), Lisbon, Portugal, June 2009.

2008

Deadlock Immunity: Enabling Systems To Defend Against Deadlocks. Horatiu Jula, Daniel Tralamazza, Cristian Zamfir, George Candea. 8th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), San Diego, CA, December 2008.

Reverse-Engineering Drivers for Safety and Portability. Vitaly Chipounov and George Candea. 4th Workshop on Hot Topics in System Dependability (HotDep), San Diego, CA, December 2008.

Deprogramming Large Software Systems. Yohann Coppel and George Candea. 4th Workshop on Hot Topics in System Dependability (HotDep), San Diego, CA, December 2008.

Toward Quantifying System Manageability. George Candea. 4th Workshop on Hot Topics in System Dependability (HotDep), San Diego, CA, December 2008.

Middleware-based Database Replication: The Gaps Between Theory and Practice. Emmanuel Cecchet, George Candea, Anastasia Ailamaki. ACM SIGMOD Intl. Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), Vancouver, Canada, June 2008.

ConfErr: A Tool for Assessing Resilience to Human Configuration Errors. Lorenzo Keller, Prasang Upadhyaya, George Candea. Intl. Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), Anchorage, Alaska, June 2008.

A Scalable, Sound, Eventually-Complete Algorithm for Deadlock Immunity. Horatiu Jula and George Candea. 8th Workshop on Runtime Verification (RV), Budapest, Hungary, March 2008.

Pre-2008

Toward Self-Healing Multitier Services. Brian Cook, Shivnath Babu, George Candea, and Songyun Duan. 2nd International Workshop on Self-Managing Database Systems (SMDB), Istanbul, Turkey, April 2007

Autonomous Recovery in Componentized Internet Applications. George Candea, Emre Kiciman, Shinichi Kawamoto, and Armando Fox. Cluster Computing Journal, Vol. 9, No. 2, April 2006

Combining Visualization and Statistical Analysis to Improve Operator Confidence and Efficiency for Failure Detection and Localization. Peter Bodik, Greg Friedman, Lukas Biewald, Helen Levine, George Candea, Kayur Patel, Gilman Tolle, Jon Hui, Armando Fox, Michael I. Jordan, David Patterson. 2nd International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC), Seattle, WA, June 2005

Microreboot - A Technique for Cheap Recovery. George Candea, Shinichi Kawamoto, Yuichi Fujiki, Greg Friedman, Armando Fox. 6th Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), San Francisco, CA, December 2004

Recovery Oriented Computing: Building Multitier Dependability. George Candea, Aaron Brown, Armando Fox, and David Patterson. IEEE Computer, Vol. 37, No. 11, November 2004 (invited paper)

OnCall: Defeating Spikes with a Free-Market Application Cluster. Jim Norris, Keith Coleman, Armando Fox, and George Candea. 1st International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC), New York, NY, May 2004

Improving Availability with Recursive Microreboots: A Soft-State System Case Study. George Candea, James Cutler, Armando Fox. Performance Evaluation Journal, Vol. 56, Nos. 1-3, March 2004

Automatic Failure-Path Inference: A Generic Introspection Technique for Internet Applications. George Candea, Mauricio Delgado, Michael Chen, Armando Fox. 3rd IEEE Workshop on Internet Applications (WIAPP), San Jose, CA, June 2003

JAGR: An Autonomous Self-Recovering Application Server. George Candea, Emre Kiciman, Steve Zhang, Pedram Keyani, Armando Fox. 5th International Workshop on Active Middleware Services (AMS), Seattle, WA, June 2003

Crash-Only Software. George Candea and Armando Fox. 9th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS), Lihue, Hawaii, May 2003

A Utility-Centered Approach to Building Dependable Infrastructure Services. George Candea and Armando Fox. 10th ACM SIGOPS European Workshop, Saint-Émilion, France, September 2002

Reducing Recovery Time in a Small Recursively Restartable System. George Candea, James Cutler, Armando Fox, Rushabh Doshi, Priyank Garg, Rakesh Gowda. International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), Washington, D.C., June 2002

Recovery-Oriented Computing (ROC): Motivation, Definition, Techniques, and Case Studies. David Patterson, Aaron Brown, Pete Broadwell, George Candea, Mike Chen, James Cutler, Patricia Enriquez, Armando Fox, Emre Kiciman, Matthew Merzbacher, David Oppenheimer, Naveen Sastry, William Tetzlaff, and Noah Treuhaft. U.C. Berkeley Computer Science Technical Report, UCB//CSD-02-1175, March 2002

Designing for High Availability and Measurability. George Candea and Armando Fox. 1st Workshop on Evaluating and Architecting System Dependability (EASY), Göteborg, Sweden, July 2001

Recursive Restartability: Turning the Reboot Sledgehammer into a Scalpel. George Candea and Armando Fox. 8th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS), Schloss Elmau, Germany, May 2001

Vassal: Loadable Scheduler Support for Multi-Policy Scheduling. George Candea and Michael B. Jones. 2nd USENIX Windows NT Symposium, Seattle, WA, August 1998 (Best Paper Award)