Visual and algorithmic tooling for system trace analysis: A case study

Operating Systems Review (ACM)

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 97-102

  De Pauw, Wim ^a   Heisig, Stephen ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Pattern extraction; Problem determination; Trace analysis; Visualization

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC TOOLS; AUTOMATED ANALYSIS; COMPLEX SYSTEMS; COMPUTATIONAL LOADS; DEFINABLE SETS; DOMAIN SPECIFIC; FALSE POSITIVE; HUMAN ANALYSIS; INDUSTRY TRENDS; LEGACY CODE; MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES; MEMORY LATENCIES; PATTERN EXTRACTION; PROBLEM DETERMINATION; REMEDIATION MEASURES; RESPONSE TIME; SOFTWARE FUNCTIONS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL REPRESENTATION; TRACE DATA; TRACE INFORMATION; UNSTABLE SYSTEM;

VISUALIZATION;

TRACE ANALYSIS;

EID: 77958117537     PISSN: 01635980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1740390.1740412     Document Type: Article

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