Publications

Archival Papers in Journals and Highly Selective Conferences

• T. Dumitraş, I. Neamtiu, E. Tilevich
  Report on the Second ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Software Upgrades (HotSWUp'09)
  ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, vol. 44, no. 4, Dec. 2010
  
• T. Dumitraş, E. Tilevich and P. Narasimhan
  To Upgrade or Not to Upgrade: Impact of Online Upgrades across Multiple Administrative Domains
  ACM Onward! Conference, Oct. 2010
  (23% acceptance rate for long papers)
  [Note: this version of the paper corrects some typos that appeared in the proceedings]
  2 citations
• T. Dumitraş and P. Narasimhan
  Why Do Upgrades Fail And What Can We Do About It? Toward Dependable, Online Upgrades in Enterprise Systems
  ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware Conference, Nov.-Dec. 2009 (LNCS 5896)
  (19% acceptance rate)
  [Supplemental information]
  12 citations
• P. Bogdan, T. Dumitraş, R. Mărculescu
  Stochastic Communication: A New Paradigm for Fault-Tolerant Networks-on-Chip
  VLSI Design, special issue on Networks-on-Chip, Hindawi, 2007
  33 citations
• T. Dumitraş and P. Narasimhan
  Got Predictability? Experiences with Fault-Tolerant Middleware
  ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware Conference, Nov. 2007
  (24% acceptance rate)
  [Supplemental information]
• T. Dumitraş, J. Tan, Z. Gho and P. Narasimhan
  No More HotDependencies: Toward Dependency-Agnostic Online Upgrades in Distributed Systems
  USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in System Dependability (HotDep), Jun. 2007
  (15% acceptance rate)
  11 citations
• P. Narasimhan, T. Dumitraş, A. Paulos, S. Pertet, C. Reverte, J. Slember and D. Srivastava
  MEAD: Support for Real-Time, Fault-Tolerant CORBA
  Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, vol. 17, no. 12, Wiley and Sons, 2005
  [Source code]
  64 citations
• T. Dumitraş and P. Narasimhan
  Fault-Tolerant Middleware and the Magical 1%
  ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware Conference, Nov.-Dec. 2005 (LNCS 3790)
  (21% acceptance rate)
  [Supplemental information]
  12 citations
• T. Dumitraş and R. Mărculescu
  On-Chip Stochastic Communication
  EDAA/IEEE/ACM DATE Conference, Mar. 2003
  (17% acceptance rate for full papers)
  79 citations

Conference and Workshop Papers (refereed)

• T. Dumitraş and P. Efstathopoulos
  The Provenance of WINE
  European Dependable Computing Conference (EDCC) 2012
  
• T. Dumitraş and P. Efstathopoulos
  Ask WINE: Are We Safer Today? Evaluating Operating System Security through Big Data Analysis
  USENIX Workshop on Large-Scale Exploits and Emerging Threats (LEET) 2012
  
• I. Neamtiu and T. Dumitraş
  Cloud Software Upgrades: Challenges and Opportunities
  IEEE Workshop on the Maintenance and Evolution of Service-Oriented and Cloud-Based Systems (MESOCA) 2011
  
• T. Dumitraş and I. Neamtiu
  Experimental Challenges in Cyber Security: A Story of Provenance and Lineage for Malware
  Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test (CSET) 2011
  
• T. Dumitraş and D. Shou
  Toward a Standard Benchmark for Computer Security Research: The Worldwide Intelligence Network Environment (WINE)
  EuroSys BADGERS Workshop 2011
  
• T. Dumitraş and P. Narasimhan
  Toward Upgrades-as-a-Service in Distributed Systems
  Poster Session at Middleware 2009
  
• T. Dumitraş
  Dependable, Online Upgrades in Enterprise Systems
  Doctoral Symposium at OOPSLA 2009
  John Vlissides Award
• T. Dumitraş
  Dependable, Online Upgrades in Enterprise Systems
  ACM Student Research Competition at OOPSLA 2009
  First Place
• T. Dumitraş
  Dependency-Agnostic Online Upgrades in Distributed Systems
  Student Forum at DSN 2007
• T. Dumitraş, M. Lee, P. Quinones, A. Smailagic, D. Siewiorek and P. Narasimhan
  Eye of the Beholder: Phone-Based Text-Recognition for the Visually-Impaired
  Poster Session at ISWC 2006
  3 citations
• T. Dumitraş, D. Roşu, A. Dan and P. Narasimhan
  Impact-Sensitive Framework for Dynamic Change-Management
  DSN Workshop on Architecting Dependable Systems (WADS), Jun. 2006
• T. Dumitraş, P. Narasimhan
  An Architecture for Versatile Dependability
  DSN Workshop on Architecting Dependable Systems (WADS), Jun. 2004
  7 citations
• T. Dumitraş, S. Kerner and R. Mărculescu
  Enabling On-Chip Diversity through Architectural Communication Design
  IEEE/ACM ASP-DAC, Jan. 2004
  (34% acceptance rate for full papers)
  7 citations
• T. Dumitraş, S. Kerner and R. Mărculescu
  Toward On-Chip Fault-Tolerant Communication
  IEEE/ACM ASP-DAC, Jan. 2003
  (34% acceptance rate for full papers)
  Best Paper Award
  131 citations

Book Chapters (refereed)

• T. Dumitraş, D. Roşu, A. Dan and P. Narasimhan
  Ecotopia: An Ecological Framework for Change Management in Distributed Systems
  Architecting Dependable Systems Vol. IV, C. Gacek et al., eds., Springer-Verlag, 2007 (LNCS 4615)
  9 citations
• T. Dumitraş, D. Srivastava and P. Narasimhan
  Architecting and Implementing Versatile Dependability
  Architecting Dependable Systems Vol. III, C. Gacek, et al., eds., Springer-Verlag, 2005 (LNCS 3549)
  18 citations
• T. Dumitraş and R. Mărculescu
  On-Chip Stochastic Communication
  Embedded Software for SoC, A. Jerraya et al., eds., Kluwer, 2003

Theses

• T. Dumitraş
  Improving the Dependability of Distributed Systems through AIR Software Upgrades
  PhD Thesis, Carnegie Mellon University, Dec. 2010
• T. Dumitraş
  On-Chip Stochastic Communication
  MS Thesis, Carnegie Mellon University, May 2003

Other Publications

• T. Dumitraş
  Field Data Available at Symantec Research Labs: The Worldwide Intelligence Network Environment (WINE)
  ASPLOS Exascale Evaluation and Research Techniques Workshop, Invited paper, Mar. 2011
• T. Dumitraş, I. Neamtiu and E. Tilevich, eds.
  Proceedings of the 2^nd ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Software Upgrades (HotSWUp), Oct. 2009
• T. Dumitraş and P. Narasimhan
  No Downtime for Data Conversions: Rethinking Hot Upgrades
  Technical Report CMU-PDL-09-106, Carnegie Mellon University, Jul. 2009
  5 citations
• T. Dumitraş, F. Eliassen, K. Geihs, H. Muccini, A. Polini and T. Ungerer
  Testing Run-time Evolving Systems
  Self-Healing and Self-Adaptive Systems, A. Andrzejak et al., eds., Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, no. 09201, May 2009
  2 citations
• T. Dumitraş, S. Kavulya and P. Narasimhan
  A fault model for upgrades in distributed systems
  Technical Report CMU-PDL-08-115, Carnegie Mellon University, Dec. 2008
  [Supplemental information]
• T. Dumitraş, D. Dig and I. Neamtiu, eds.
  Proceedings of the 1^st ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Software Upgrades (HotSWUp), Oct. 2008
• T. Dumitraş, A. Hanemann, B. Kratz and J. Pathak, eds.
  Proceedings of the IBM Ph.D. Student Symposium at ICSOC 2007 Sep. 2007
• A. Hanemann, B. Kratz, T. Dumitraş, and N. Mukhi, eds.
  Proceedings of the IBM Ph.D. Student Symposium at ICSOC 2007 Dec 2006

Citation counts retrieved from Google Scholar on 26 May 2012.

Talks

• 'Symantec’s WINE System for Repeatable, Data-Intensive Experiments in Cyber Security,' Rutgers, Mar. 2012 (host: Tina Eliassi-Rad)
• 'Symantec’s WINE System for Repeatable, Data-Intensive Experiments in Cyber Security,' Princeton, Mar. 2012 (host: Jennifer Rexford)
• 'Symantec’s WINE System for Repeatable, Data-Intensive Experiments in Cyber Security,' Virginia Tech, Mar. 2012 (host: Eli Tilevich)
• 'Field Data Available at Symantec Research Labs: The Worldwide Intelligence Network Environment (WINE),' University of Maryland, College Park, Dec. 2011 (host: Michael Hicks)
• 'Benchmarking Computer Security through the Worldwide Intelligence Network Environment (WINE),' CCS'11, tutorial, Oct. 2011
• 'Experimental Challenges in Cyber Security: A Story of Provenance and Lineage for Malware,' CSET'11, Aug. 2011
• 'Field Data Available at Symantec Research Labs: The Worldwide Intelligence Network Environment (WINE),' UC Riverside, Apr. 2011 (host: Iulian Neamtiu)
• 'Field Data Available at Symantec Research Labs: The Worldwide Intelligence Network Environment (WINE),' ASPLOS-EXERT'11, Mar. 2011
• 'Improving the Dependability of Distributed Systems through AIR Software Upgrades,' USC, Jan. 2011 (host: Ramesh Govindan)
• 'To Upgrade or Not to Upgrade: Impact of Online Upgrades across Multiple Administrative Domains,' SPLASH-Onward!'10, Oct. 2010
• 'Improving the end-to-end dependability of distributed systems,' Computer Architecture Lab, CMU, Sep. 2010 (host: Evangelos Vlachos)
• 'Dependable, Online Upgrades in Distributed Systems,' Purdue, Jul. 2010 (host: Cristina Niţă-Rotaru)
• 'Dependable, Online Upgrades in Distributed Systems,' UIUC, Jun. 2010 (host: Indranil Gupta)
• 'Dependable, Online Upgrades in Distributed Systems,' VMware, Jun. 2010 (host: Orran Krieger)
• 'Dependable, Online Upgrades in Distributed Systems,' Stevens, Apr. 2010 (host: Hong Man)
• 'Dependable, Online Upgrades in Distributed Systems,' Caltech, Apr. 2010 (host: Adam Wierman)
• 'Dependable, Online Upgrades in Distributed Systems,' UCLA, Apr. 2010 (host: Carlo Zaniolo)
• 'Dependable, Online Upgrades in Distributed Systems,' IBM Research – Almaden, Mar. 2010 (host: Joseph Slember)
• 'Dependable, Online Upgrades in Distributed Systems,' Microsoft Research – Silicon Valley, Feb. 2010 (host: Mihai Budiu)
• 'Dependable, Online Upgrades in Distributed Systems,' HP Labs, Feb. 2010 (host: Lucy Cherkasova)
• 'Dependable, Online Upgrades in Distributed Systems,' IBM Research – T.J. Watson, Jan. 2010 (host: Peter Sweeney)
• 'Dependable, Online Upgrades in Distributed Systems,' AT&T Labs, Jan. 2010 (hosts: Matti Hiltunen and Rick Schlichting)
• 'Why Do Upgrades Fail and What Can We Do About It?,' Middleware'09, Dec. 2009
• Talks on distributed-system upgrades at the Annual Retreat of the Parallel Data Lab, 2007–2009
• 'Dependable, Online Upgrades in Enterprise Systems,' ACM Student Research Competition, Oct. 2009 (First Place)
• 'Dependable, Online Upgrades in Enterprise Systems,' OOPSLA'09 Doctoral Symposium, Oct. 2009 (John Vlissides Award)
• 'Toward Dependable, Online Upgrades in Enterprise Systems,' Software Engineering Institute, Jun. 2009 (host: Charles Weinstock)
• 'Toward Dependable, Online Upgrades in Enterprise Systems,' EPFL, Switzerland, May 2009 (host: Willy Zwaenepoel)
• 'Why Do Upgrades Fail and What Can We Do About It?,' Dagstuhl Seminar 09201, May 2009 (invited talk)
• 'Dependency-Agnostic Online Upgrades in Distributed Systems,' Vanderbilt University, Oct. 2008 (host: Anirüddhā Gokhālé)
• 'Dependency-Agnostic Online Upgrades in Distributed Systems,' Oracle Corporation, Jun. 2008 (host: Alan Downing)
• 'Got Predictability? Experiences with Fault-Tolerant Middleware,' Middleware'07, Nov. 2007
• 'Dependency-Agnostic Online Upgrades in Distributed Systems,' Cambridge University, UK, Jun. 2007 (host: Jon Crowcroft)
• 'Dependency-Agnostic Online Upgrades in Distributed Systems,' Newcastle University, UK, Jun. 2007 (host: Graham Morgan)
• 'Dependency-Agnostic Online Upgrades in Distributed Systems,' DSN'07 Student Forum, Jun. 2007
• 'Impact-Sensitive Framework for Dynamic Change-Management,' WADS'06, Jun. 2006
• 'Patch Management Sandboxing,' VMware, Jul. 2006 (host: Suresh Ravoor)
• 'Distributed, Impact-Sensitive Dynamic Change-Management,' CNRS-LAAS, France, Dec. 2005 (host: Jean-Charles Fabre)
• 'Fault-Tolerant Middleware and the Magical 1%,' Middleware'05, Nov. 2005
• 'Distributed, Impact-Sensitive Dynamic Change-Management,' IBM Research, Aug. 2005 (host: Asit Dan)
• 'An Architecture for Versatile Dependability,' WADS'04, Jun. 2004
• 'On-Chip Stochastic Communication,' DATE'03, Mar. 2003
• 'Towards On-Chip Fault-Tolerant Communication,' ASP-DAC'03, Jan. 2003 (Best Paper Award)