Category Archives: papers

AutoFLox: An Automatic Fault Localizer for Client-Side JavaScript

Frolin Ocariza Jr., Karthik Pattabiraman and Ali Mesbah, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST), 2012 (Acceptance rate: 27%). [ PDF File | Talk ]
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JavaScript Errors in the Wild: An Empirical Study

Frolin Ocariza, Karthik Pattabiraman and Benjamin Zorn, International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE), 2011. [ PDF File | Talk ]
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Comparing the Effects of Transient and Intermittent Faults on Programs

Jiesheng Wei, Layali Rashid, Karthik Pattabiraman and Sathish Gopalakrishnan, Workshop on Dependable and Secure Nano-Systems (WDSN), 2011. [ PDF File | Talk ]
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Modular Protections Against Non-Control Data Attacks

Cole Schlesinger, Karthik Pattabiraman, Nikhil Swamy, David Walker and Benjamin Zorn, Proceedings of the Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF), 2011. [ PDF | Talk ]
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Flikker: Saving DRAM Refresh Power Through Critical Data Partitioning

Song Liu, Karthik Pattabiraman, Thomas Moscibroda and Benjamin Zorn, Proceedings of the Symposium on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), 2011. [ PDF | Talk Slides ] (Winner of the Jean Claude Award in dependable computing, 2025) Continue reading →

Efficient Runtime Detection and Toleration of Asymmetric Races

Paruj Ratanaworabhan, Martin Burtscher, Darko Kirovski, Benjamin Zorn, Rahul Nagpal and Karthik Pattabiraman, To appear in the IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC). Accepted in January 2011. [ PDF File (Pre-print version) ]
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Modeling the Propagation of Intermittent Hardware Faults in Programs

Layali Rashid, Karthik Pattabiraman and Sathish Gopalakrishnan, To appear in the Proceedings of the IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC), Tokyo, Japan, 2010. [ PDF file | Talk ]
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DoDOM: Leveraging DOM Invariants for Web 2.0 Application Robustness Testing

Karthik Pattabiraman and Benjamin Zorn, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE), 2010.
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Talk – Good Enough Computer Systems: Reliability on the Cheap

Talk given at the IEEE Computer Society, Vancouver Chapter, May 20, 2010. [ PDF Slides ]
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Automated Derivation of Application-specific Error Detectors Using Dynamic Analysis

Karthik Pattabiraman, Giacinto Paulo Saggese, Daniel Chen, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk and Ravishankar Iyer, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC) Vol 8., Issue 5, Sept/Oct 2011 . [ PDF File ]
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