EnCore: Exploiting system environment and correlation information for misconfiguration detection

International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems - ASPLOS

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 687-700

  Zhang, Jiaqi ^a   Renganarayana, Lakshminarayanan ^b   Zhang, Xiaolan ^b   Ge, Niyu ^b   Bala, Vasanth ^b   Xu, Tianyin ^a   Zhou, Yuanyuan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Configuration; Data mining; Inference

Indexed keywords

CONFIGURATION; ENVIRONMENT INFORMATION; EXECUTION ENVIRONMENTS; EXTRACT INFORMATIONS; INFERENCE; LEARNING CORRELATION; MULTIPLE CONFIGURATIONS; OPERATING ENVIRONMENT;

DATA MINING;

EID: 84897776863     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2541940.2541983     Document Type: Conference Paper

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