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 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 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)