Eurosys 2007

I spent most part of my last week in Lisbon, Portugal. Besides being an interesting (albeit surprisingly western-European) city, it was the location of this year's EuroSys conference. Although it was just the 2nd such event, I think the organizers are on their way of establishing it as one of the major systems conferences world-wide. There were quite some nice ideas in the conference and I'd like to point you to my favorite papers from this conference.

Some of these papers are not available yet, I'll try to update the links some time in the future.

• Marek Olszewski, Adam Czajkowski, Keir Mierle, Angela Demke Brown: JIT instrumentation - a novel approach to dynamically instrument operating systems
• Anil Madhavapeddy, Alex Ho, Tim Deegan, David Scott and Ripduman Sohan: Melange: Creating a functional internet (not online yet.)
• Joseph Tucek, James Newsome, Shan Lu, Chengdu Huang, Spiros Xanthos, David Brumley, Yuanyuan Zhou and Dawn Song: Sweeper: A Lightweight End-to-End System for Defending Against Fast Worms.
• Kristis Makris, Kyung Ryu: Dynamic and Adaptive Updates of Non-Quiescent Subsystems in Commodity Operating System Kernels. (not online yet.)
• Sameh Elnikety, Steven Dropsho, Willy Zwaenepoel: Tashkent+ - memory-aware load balancing and update filtering in replicated databases
• Jake Wires, Mike Feeley: Secure file system versioning at the block level (not online yet.)