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Conference Papers
2013, 'The Systems Hacker's Guide to the Galaxy: Energy Usage in a Modern Smartphone', in Proceedings of the 4th Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems, ACM, New York, NY, presented at APSys'13 Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems, Singapore, 29 July 2013 - 30 July 2013, http://www.nicta.com.au/pub?id=7044
,2013, 'Correct, fast, maintainable - choose any three!', in Proceedings of the 4th Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems, ACM, New York, NY, presented at APSys'13 Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems, Singapore, 29 July 2013 - 30 July 2013, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2349896.2349909
,2013, 'Preempt or Not Preempt - That is the Question', in Proceedings of the 4th Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems, ACM, New York, NY, presented at APSys'13 Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems, Singapore, 29 July 2013 - 30 July 2013, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2349896.2349904
,2013, 'The von Neumann architecture is due for retirement', USENIX, Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico, presented at 14th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS XIV), Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico, 13 May 2013 - 15 May 2013
,2013, 'RapiLog: Reducing system complexity through verification', in Proceedings of the 8th ACM European Conference on Computer Systems, EuroSys 2013, ACM, Prague; Czech Republic, pp. 323 - 336, presented at 8th ACM European Conference on Computer Systems, EuroSys 2013, Prague; Czech Republic, 15 April 2013 - 17 April 2013, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2465351.2465383
,2013, 'Sequoll: A framework for model checking binaries', in Proceedings of the 19th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium, IEEE, Philadelphia, USA, presented at 19th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium, Philadelphia, USA, 09 April 2013 - 11 April 2013
,2013, 'Code optimizations using formally verified properties', in ACM SIGPLAN Notices, pp. 427 - 441, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2544173.2509513
,2013, 'File Systems Deserve Verification Too!', in Programming Languages and Operating Systems (PLOS), pp. 1 - 7
,2012, 'Message from the 2012 USENIX annual technical conference program co-chairs', in Proceedings of the 2012 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, USENIX ATC 2012, Boston, MA, pp. VII - VII, presented at USENIX ATC, Boston, MA, 12 June 2012 - 15 June 2012
,2012, 'Improving Interrupt Response Time in a Verifiable Protected Microkernel', in Proceedings of the 7th ACM European Conference on Computer Systems, ACM, New York, NY, USA, pp. 323 - 336, presented at 7th ACM European Conference on Computer Systems, EuroSys'12, Bern, Switzerland, 10 April 2012 - 13 April 2012, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2168836.2168869
,2011, 'Timing Analysis of a Protected Operating System Kernel', in Proceedings of the 32nd Real Time Systems Symposium, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, USA, pp. 339 - 348, presented at 2011 32nd IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, RTSS 2011, Vienna, Austria, 29 November 2011 - 02 December 2011, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/RTSS.2011.38
,2011, 'Low-Overhead Vlrtualization of Mobile Platforms', in PROCEEDINGS OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE 14TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPILERS, ARCHITECTURES AND SYNTHESIS FOR EMBEDDED SYSTEMS (CASES '11), ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY, TAIWAN, Taipei, pp. 3 - 3, presented at 14th Confernece on Compilers, Architectures and Synthesis for Embedded Systems (CASES), TAIWAN, Taipei, 09 October 2011 - 14 October 2011, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000397432700002&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2011, 'Hardware-Supported Virtualization on ARM', in Proceedings of the Second Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems (APSys'11), ACM, New York, NY, USA, pp. 1 - 5, presented at APSys'11: 2nd ACM SIGOPS Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems, Shanghai, China, 11 July 2011 - 12 July 2011, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2103799.2103813
,2011, 'Protected Hard Real-time: The Next Frontier', in Proceedings of the Second Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems (APSys'11), ACM, New York, NY, USA, pp. 1 - 5, presented at APSys'11: 2nd ACM SIGOPS Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems, Shanghai, China, 11 July 2011 - 12 July 2011, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2103799.2103801
,2011, 'Static Analysis of Device Drivers: We Can Do Better!', in Proceedings of the Second Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems (APSys'11), ACM, New York, NY, USA, pp. 1 - 5, presented at APSys'11: 2nd ACM SIGOPS Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems, Shanghai, China, 11 July 2011 - 12 July 2011, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2103799.2103809
,2011, 'Virtualizing embedded systems - Why bother?', in Proceedings - Design Automation Conference, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.,, San Diego, CA, United states, pp. 901 - 905, presented at 2011 48th ACM/EDAC/IEEE Design Automation Conference, DAC 2011, San Diego, CA, United States, 05 June 2011 - 09 June 2011
,2011, 'What If You Could Actually Trust Your Kernel?', in HotOS XIII: Proceedings of the 13th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems, USENIX, http://static.usenix.org/events/hotos11/tech/, pp. 1 - 5, presented at 13th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems, Napa, CA, USA, 09 May 2011, http://www.usenix.org/events/hotos11/tech/final_files/Heiser.pdf
,2011, 'Improved device driver reliability through hardware verification reuse', in Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, United States, pp. 133 - 144, presented at 16th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, ASPLOS 2011, Newport Beach, CA, United States, 05 March 2011 - 11 March 2011, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1950365.1950383
,2010, 'The road to trustworthy systems', in Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security 2010, ACM, New York, pp. 3 - 9, Chicago, IL, 04 October 2010 - 08 October 2010, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1867635.1867638
,2010, 'Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling: The Laws of Diminishing Returns', ACM Digital Library, Vancouver, Canada, presented at HotPower, Vancouver, Canada, 03 October 2010, http://www.ertos.nicta.com.au/publications/papers/LeSueur_Heiser_10.abstract
,2010, 'Improvded device driver reliability through verification reuse', in Proceedings of the Sixth international conference on Hot topics in system dependability, ACM, ACM digital library, pp. 1 - 6, presented at Sixth workshop on hot topics in system dependability, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 03 October 2010, http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1924908.1924913
,2010, 'Architecture Optimisation with Currawong', in APSys 2010: First ACM Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems, ACM, New York, NY, USA, presented at APSys2010: 1st ACM Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems, New Delhi, India, 30 August 2010
,2010, 'The case for active device drivers', in APSys 2010: First ACM Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems, ACM, New York, NY, USA, presented at APSys2010: 1st ACM Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems, New Delhi, India, 30 August 2010
,2010, 'The OKL4 Microvisor: Convergence Point of Microkernels and Hypervisors', in APSys 2010: First ACM Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems, ACM, New York, NY, USA, pp. 19 - 24, presented at APSys2010: 1st ACM Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems, New Delhi, India, 30 August 2010, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1851276.1851282
,2010, 'Slow down or sleep, that is the question', in Proceedings of the 2011 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, ISBN 978931971850, USENIX Association, Portland, OR, USA, pp. 217 - 222, presented at USENIX Annual Technical Conference 2011, Portland, OR, USA, 14 June 2010 - 17 June 2010, http://www.usenix.org/event/atc11/tech/final_files/atc11_proceedings.pdf
,2010, 'An Analysis of Power Consumption in a Smartphone', in Proceedings of the 2010 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, The USENIX Association, Boston, MA, USA, presented at USENIX Annual Technical Conference 2010, Boston, MA, USA, 14 June 2010 - 17 June 2010, http://www.usenix.org/events/atc10/tech/
,2009, 'Trusted ← trustworthy ← proof position paper', pp. 55 - 59, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-8348-9324-6_6
,2009, 'seL4: formal verification of an OS kernel', in Proceedings of SOSP`09, ACM, New York, NY, USA, presented at SOSP, Big Sky, Montana, USA, 11 October 2009 - 14 October 2009, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1629575.1629596
,2009, 'VNUMA: A Virtual Shared Memory Multiprocessor', in Proceedings of the 2009 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, The USENIX Association, Berkeley, CA, USA, pp. 349 - 362, presented at 2009 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, San Diego, CA, USA, 14 June 2009 - 19 June 2009, http://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/unsworks:4393
,2009, 'Koala a platform for OS-level power management', in PROCEEDINGS OF EUROSYS 2009, ACM, NEW YORK, presented at 4th ACM European Conference on Computer Systems, EuroSys`09, Nuremberg Germany, 01 April 2009 - 03 April 2009, http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1519065.1519097
,2009, 'Hypervisors for consumer electronics', in 2009 6th IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC 2009, IEEE, New Jersey, USA, presented at World Summit on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, GEC Summit - 1st ACM/SIGEVO Summit on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, GEC`09
,2008, 'The role of virtualization in embedded systems', in IIES 2008 - Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Isolation and Integration in Embedded Systems, pp. 11 - 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1435458.1435461
,2008, 'Pre-virtualization: Soft layering for virtual machines', in 13th IEEE Asia-Pacific Computer Systems Architecture Conference, ACSAC 2008, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/APCSAC.2008.4625458
,2008, 'Formalising device driver interfaces', in 4th workshop on programming languages and operating systems, Stevenson, WA, USA, presented at 4th workshop on programming languages and operating systems, Stevenson, WA, USA, 18 October 2008
,2007, 'Accurate on-line prediction of processor and memoryenergy usage under voltage scaling', in EMSOFT'07: Proceedings of the Seventh ACM and IEEE International Conference on Embedded Software, pp. 84 - 93, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1289927.1289945
,2007, 'Reboots are for hardware: challenges and solutions to updating an operating system on the fly', in 2007 USENIX annual technical conference, Santa Clara, CA, USA, presented at USENIX annual technical conference 2007, Santa Clara, CA, USA, 17 June 2007 - 22 June 2007
,2007, 'Accurate run-time prediction of performance degradation under frequency scaling', in National ICT Australia Technical Reports, Pisa, Italy, presented at OSPERT 2007 workshop on operating systems platforms for embedded real-time applications, Pisa, Italy, 03 June 2007
,2007, 'Measurements or static analysis or both?', in 7th Workshop on worst-case execution-time analysis, Pisa, Italy, presented at 7th Workshop on worst-case execution-time analysis, Pisa, Italy, 03 June 2007
,2007, 'Hype and Virtue', in 11th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems Proceedings - HotOS X1, San Diego, Californa, USA, presented at 11th workshop on hot topics in operating systems proceedings - HotOS X1, San Diego, Californa, USA, 07 May 2007 - 09 May 2007
,2007, 'Towards a practical, verified kernel', in 11th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems Proceedings - HotOS X1, San Diego, Californa, USA, presented at 11th workshop on hot topics in operating systems proceedings - HotOS X1, San Diego, Californa, USA, 07 May 2007 - 09 May 2007
,2007, 'High-performance microkernels and virtualisation on ARM and segmented architectures', in National ICT Australia Technical Reports, Sydney, presented at 1st international workshop on microkernels for embedded systems MIKES 2007, Sydney, 16 January 2007
,2005, 'OS verification - now!', in 10th workshop on hot topics in operating systems, Santa Fe, NM, USA, presented at 10th workshop on hot topics in operating systems, Santa Fe, NM, USA, 12 June 2005 - 15 June 2005
,2005, 'Implementing transparent shared memory on clusters using virtual machines', in 2005 USENIX annual technical conference, Anaheim, California, presented at USENIX annual technical conference 2005, Anaheim, California, 10 April 2005 - 15 April 2005
,2005, 'Itanium - a system implementor`s tale', in 2005 USENIX annual technical conference, Anaheim, California, presented at USENIX annual technical conference 2005, Anaheim, California, 10 April 2005 - 15 April 2005
,2005, 'Providing dynamic update in an operating system', in 2005 USENIX annual technical conference, Anaheim, California, presented at USENIX annual technical conference 2005, Anaheim, California, 10 April 2005 - 15 April 2005
,2004, 'An Open GNSS Receiver Platfrm Architecture', in Journal of Global Positioning Systems, Electronic, CPGPS, P R China, presented at International Symposium on GNSS/GPS 2004, Sydney, 06 December 2004 - 08 December 2004
,2004, 'A Secure, Language Independent, High Performance Component Interface', in 1st International Workshop on Object Systems and Software Architectures, Victor Harbour, South Australia, presented at 1st International Workshop on Object Systems and Software Architectures, Victor Harbour, South Australia, 11 January 2004 - 14 January 2004
,2004, 'Encapsulated User-Level Device Drivers in the Mungi Operating System', in 1st International Workshop on Object Systems and Software Architectures, Victor Harbour, South Australia, presented at 1st International Workshop on Object Systems and Software Architectures, Victor Harbour, South Australia, 11 January 2004 - 14 January 2004
,2003, 'Implementation of Fast Address-Space Switching and TLB Sharing on the Strong ARM Processor', in 8th Asia-Pacific Conference, ACSAC 2003, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan, presented at 8th Asia-Pacific Conference, ACSAC 2003, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan, 23 September 2003 - 26 September 2003
,2003, 'Legba: Fast Hardware Support for Fine-Grained Protection', in 8th Asia-Pacific Conference, ACSAC 2003, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan, presented at 8th Asia-Pacific Conference, ACSAC 2003, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan, 23 September 2003 - 26 September 2003
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