Publications
Archival Papers in Journals and Highly Selective Conferences
- T. Dumitraş and P. Narasimhan
A Study of Unpredictability in Fault-Tolerant Middleware
Computer Networks (COMNET), Elsevier, available online 29 October 2012, ISSN 1389-1286 - L. Bilge and T. Dumitraş
Before We Knew It: An Empirical Study of Zero-Day Attacks In The Real World
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Oct. 2012
(19% acceptance rate)
[Reference data set: WINE-2012-003]
© ACM, 2012. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in CCS'12 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2382196.2382284 - 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]
4 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]
13 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
36 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)
12 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]
69 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]
13 citations - T. Dumitraş and R. Mărculescu
On-Chip Stochastic Communication
EDAA/IEEE/ACM DATE Conference, Mar. 2003
(17% acceptance rate for full papers)
80 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
11 citations - 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
4 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
142 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)
10 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
A.G. Jordan Award - 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 2nd 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 1st 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 15 November 2012.
Talks
- 'Before we knew it: An empirical study of zero-day attacks in the real world,' ISACA North America ISRM / IT GRC conference, Nov. 2012
- 'Symantec’s WINE System for Repeatable, Data-Intensive Experiments in Cyber Security,' Duke, Oct. 2012 (host: Bruce Maggs)
- 'Symantec’s WINE System for Repeatable, Data-Intensive Experiments in Cyber Security,' University of North Carolina, Oct. 2012 (host: Mike Reiter)
- 'Symantec’s WINE System for Repeatable, Data-Intensive Experiments in Cyber Security,' NC State, Oct. 2012 (host: Ting Yu)
- 'Symantec's WINE System for Repeatable, Data-Intensive Experiments in Cyber Security,' Stanford Security Seminar, May 2012
- '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)