Jikes RVM

Publications

Below is a list of publications that use Jikes RVM. This list includes both papers written by Jikes RVM developers, as well as users of the system. We strongly encourage authors to utilize the Research Archive to publish source code used in their studies, and thus, allow others to build on their results. When the implementation described in a paper is available in a Jikes RVM release, this is noted with the paper.

Information of dissertations relating to the Jikes RVM is available here.

If you would like to see a paper listed then please send details to the RVM researchers mailing list.

2016

Legato: End-to-End Bounded Region Serializability Using Commodity Hardware Transactional Memory

• Aritra Sengupta, Man Cao, Michael D. Bond and Milind Kulkarni

A deployable sampling strategy for data race detection

• Yan Cai, Jian Zhang, Lingwei Cao and Jian Liu
• more information available at http://lcs.ios.ac.cn/~yancai/cr/cr.html

Prioritized Garbage Collection: Explicit GC Support for Software Caches

• Diogenes Nunez, Samuel Z. Guyer and Emery D. Berger

Adaptive Correction of Sampling Bias in Dynamic Call Graphs

• Byeongcheol Lee
• ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO), Volume 12 Issue 4, Article No. 45, January 2016

2015

Stop and go: understanding yieldpoint behavior

• Yi Lin, Kunshan Wang, Stephen M. Blackurn, Antony L. Hosking and Michael Norrish
• ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on Memory Management, ISMM’15, Portland, OR, USA, June 14, 2015,

2014

 Fast Conservative Garbage Collection

• Rifat Shahriyar, Stephen M. Blackburn and Kathryn S. McKinley
• ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications, Portland OR, October 2014

2013

Taking Off the Gloves with Reference Counting Immix

• Rifat Shahriyar, Stephen M. Blackburn, Xi Yang and Kathryn S. McKinley
• ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications, Indianapolis IN, October 2013

2012

Work-Stealing Without The Baggage

• Vivek Kumar, Daniel Frampton, Stephen M. Blackburn, David Grove, Olivier Tardieu
• ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications, Tuscon AZ, October 2012

A Black-box Approach to Understanding Concurrency in DaCapo

• Tomas Kalibera, Matthew Mole, Richard Jones and Jan Vitek
• ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications, Tuscon AZ, October 2012

Down for the Count? Getting Reference Counting Back in the Ring

• R. Shahriyar, S. M. Blackburn, and D. Frampton
• ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on Memory Management, ISMM ‘12, Beijing, China, June 15-16, 2012
• Source code available in the Jikes RVM repository as of August 2012 (see RVM-979)

Barriers Reconsidered: Friendlier Still!

• Xi Yang, Stephen M. Blackburn, Daniel Frampton, Antony L. Hosking
• ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on Memory Management, ISMM’12, Beijing, China, June 15-16, 2012

2011

Fine-Grained Adaptive Biased Locking

• Filip Pizlo, Daniel Frampton, Antony L. Hosking
• 9th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Programming in Java, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark, August 24-26, 2011

Next In Line, Please! Efficiently Estimating and Exploiting the Indirect Benefits of Inlining

• A. Sewe, J. Jochem and M. Mezini
• 5th workshop on Virtual Machines and Intermediate Languages (VMIL), Portland, OR, USA, 24 October 2011

SOS: Saving Time in Dynamic Race Detection with Stationary Analysis

• D. Li, W. Srisa-an, and M. Dwyer
• ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA), Portland, Oregon, USA, October 22-27, 2011

A Literate Experimentation Manifesto

• J. Singer
• ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on New Ideas, New Paradigms, and Reflections on Programming and Software (ONWARD), Portland, Oregon, USA, October 22-27, 2011

Quarantine: A Framework to Mitigate Memory Errors in JNI Applications

• D. Li and W. Srisa-an
• ACM Conference on Principles and Practice of Programming in Java (PPPJ), Kongens Lyngby, Denmark, August 24-26, 2011

A Comprehensive Evaluation of Object Scanning Techniques

• R. Garner, S. M. Blackburn and D. Frampton
• ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on Memory Management (ISMM), San Jose, CA, USA, June 2011

LeakChaser: Helping Programmers Narrow Down Causes of Memory Leaks

• G. Xu, M. D. Bond, F. Qin, and A. Rountev
• ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI), San Jose, CA, USA, June 2011
• Source code available on the  Research Archive

Magic for the Masses: Safer High-level Low-level Programming through Customizable Static Analyses

• R. Mitschke, A. Sewe, M. Mezini
• 1st workshop on Modularity in Systems Software (MISS), Porto de Galinhas, Brazil, 22 Mar 2011

2010

Hera-JVM: A System for Heterogeneous Multi-Core Architectures

• R. McIlroy and J. Sventek.
• ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications, Reno/Tahoe, Nevada, October, 2010

An Input-Centric Paradigm for Program Dynamic Optimizations

• K. Tian, Y. Jiang, E. Zhang, X. Shen
• ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications, Reno/Tahoe, Nevada, October, 2010

What Can the GC Compute Efficiently? A Language for Heap Assertions at GC Time

• C. Reichenbach, E. Aftandilian, N. Immerman, S. Guyer, and Y. Smaragdakis
• ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications, Reno/Tahoe, Nevada, October, 2010

Headroom-based pretenuring: dynamically pretenuring objects that live “long enough”

• A. Sewe, D. Yuan, J. Sinschek and M. Mezini
• Principles and Practice of Programming in Java (PPPJ ‘10), Vienna, Austria, 15-17 September 2010

Local redundant polymorphism query elimination

• Rhodes H. F. Brown and R. Nigel Horspool
• Principles and Practice of Programming in Java (PPPJ ‘10), Vienna, Austria, 15-17 September 2010

Z-Rays: Divide Arrays and Conquer Speed and Flexibility

• J. Sartor, S. M. Blackburn, D. Frampton, M. Hirzel, and K. S. McKinley
• ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI), Toronto, Canada, June 2010
• Source code available here

Pacer: Proportional Detection of Data Races

• M. D. Bond, K. E. Coons, and K. S. McKinley
• ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI), Toronto, Canada, June 2010
• Source code available on the  Research Archive

Breadcrumbs: Efficient Context Sensitivity for Dynamic Bug Detection Analyses

• M. D. Bond, G. Z. Baker, and S. Z. Guyer
• ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI), Toronto, Canada, June 2010
• Source code available on the  Research Archive

The Locality of Concurrent Write Barriers

• L. Hellyer, R.E. Jones and A.L. Hosking
• ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on Memory Management (ISMM), Toronto, Canada, June 2010

The Economics of Garbage Collection

• J. Singer, R.E. Jones, G. Brown and M. Lujan
• ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on Memory Management (ISMM), Toronto, Canada, June 2010

Efficient, Context-Sensitive Detection of Real-World Semantic Attacks

• M. D. Bond, V. Srivastava, K. S. McKinley, and V. Shmatikov
• ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Programming Languages and Analysis for Security (PLAS), Toronto, Canada, June 2010
• Source code available on the  Research Archive

Automated just-in-time compiler tuning

• Kenneth Hoste, Andy Georges and Lieven Eeckhout
• Code generation and optimization (CGO ‘10), Toronto, Canada, 24-28 April 2010

2009

GC Assertions: Using the Garbage Collector to Check Heap Properties

• E. Aftandilian and S. Guyer
• ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI), Dublin, Ireland, June 2009.

An Experimental Study of Methods for Executing Test Suites in Memory Constrained Environments

• Suvarshi Bhadra, Alexander Conrad, Charles Hurkes, Brian Kirklin, and Gregory M. Kapfhammer
• In the Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on the Automation of Software Test, Vancouver, Canada, May 2009.

Demystifying Magic: High-level Low-level Programming

• Frampton, Blackburn, Cheng, Garner, Grove, Moss, and Salishev.
• VEE 2009.

Flexible Reference-Counting-Based Hardware Acceleration for Garbage Collection

• Jose A. Joao, Onur Mutlu, and Yale N. Patt
• International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), Austin, TX, June 2009

Laminar: Practical Fine-Grained Decentralized Information Flow Control

• Indrajit Roy, Donald E. Porter, Michael D. Bond, Kathryn S. McKinley, and Emmett Witchel
• ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI), Dublin, June 2009

Leak Pruning

• Michael D. Bond, Kathryn S. McKinley
• International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), Washington, DC, March 2009
• Source code available on the Research Archive

The Impact of Java Applications at Microarchitectural Level from Branch Prediction Perspective

• Adrian Florea, Arpad Gellert, Lucian Vințan, Marius Velțan.
• International Journal of Computers, Communication and Control

Mostly-Functional Behavior in Java Programs

• William C. Benton, Charles N. Fischer
• Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation (VMCAI ‘09). Savannah, Georgia, USA 18-20 January 2009.

2008

Tolerating Memory Leaks

• Michael D. Bond, Kathryn S. McKinley
• ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA), Nashville, TN, October 2008
• Source code available on the Research Archive

Java Performance Evaluation through Rigorous Replay Compilation

• Andy Georges, Lieven Eeckhout, Dries Buytaert
• ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA), Nashville, TN, October 2008

Constraint Based Optimization of Stationary Fields

• Ian Rogers, Jisheng Zhao, Chris Kirkham, Ian Watson
• Principles and Practice of Programming in Java (PPPJ ‘08), Modena, Italy, 9-11 September 2008.

The PIM: an Innovative Robot Coordination Model based on Java Thread Migration

• Raffaele Quitadamo, Danilo Ansaloni, Niranjan Suri, Kenneth M. Ford, James Allen, Giacomo Cabri
• Principles and Practice of Programming in Java (PPPJ ‘08), Modena, Italy, 9-11 September 2008.

A Lazy Developer Approach: Building a JVM with Third Party Software

• Nicolas Geoffray, Gael Thomas, Charles Clement, Bertil Folliot
• Principles and Practice of Programming in Java (PPPJ ‘08), Modena, Italy, 9-11 September 2008.

Speculative Improvements to Verifiable Bounds Check Elimination

• Andreas Gampe, Jeffrey von Ronne, David Niedzielski, Kleanthis Psarris
• Principles and Practice of Programming in Java (PPPJ ‘08), Modena, Italy, 9-11 September 2008.

Wake Up and Smell the Coffee: Evaluation Methodology for the 21st Century

• Stephen M. Blackburn, Kathryn S. McKinley, Robin Garner, Chris Hoffmann, Asjad M. Khan, Rotem Bentzur, Amer Diwan, Daniel Feinberg, Daniel Frampton, Samuel Z. Guyer, Martin Hirzel, Antony Hosking, Maria Jump, Han Lee, J. Eliot, B. Moss, Aashish Phansalkar, Darko Stefanović, Thomas VanDrunen, Daniel von Dincklage, Ben Wiedermann.
• Communications of the ACM (CACM), pages 83-89, August 2008.

Boot Image Layout for Jikes RVM

• Ian Rogers, Jisheng Zhao and Ian Watson
• Implementation, Compilation, Optimization of Object-Oriented Languages, Programs and Systems (ICOOOLPS), Cyprus, 7 July 2008.
• Presentation, tracker and source code

Pure Method Analysis within Jikes RVM

• Jisheng Zhao, Ian Rogers, Chris Kirkham and Ian Watson
• Implementation, Compilation, Optimization of Object-Oriented Languages, Programs and Systems (ICOOOLPS), Cyprus, 7 July 2008.
• Presentation, tracker and source code

Approaches to Reflective Method Invocation

• Ian Rogers, Jisheng Zhao and Ian Watson
• Implementation, Compilation, Optimization of Object-Oriented Languages, Programs and Systems (ICOOOLPS), Cyprus, 7 July 2008.
• Presentation, tracker and source code

Speculative Multithreading: An Object-Driven Approach

• Simon Wilkinson, Ian Watson
• Parallel Execution of Sequential Programs on Multi-core Architectures (PESPMA), Beijing, China, 22 June 2008.

No Bit Left Behind: The Limits of Heap Data Compression

• J.B. Sartor, M. Hirzel, and K.S. McKinley
• The 2008 International Symposium on Memory Management. Tucson, AZ, June 2008.

Immix: A Mark-Region Garbage Collector with Space Efficiency, Fast Collection, and Mutator Performance

• Stephen Blackburn and Kathryn McKinley
• ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI 2008), Tucson, AZ, June 7-13, 2008
• Patch against r13767 here. Code being integrated into svn head April-May 2008.

Adaptive Loop Tiling for a Multi-Cluster CMP

• Jisheng Zhao, Matthew Horsnell, Mikel Lujan, Ian Rogers, Chris Kirkham and Ian Watson
• International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures, Cyprus, 9-11 June 2008.

A Study of Java Object Demographics

• Richard Jones and Chris Ryder
• International Symposium on Memory Management, Tucson, AZ, June 7-8, 2008

Phase-based Adaptive Recompilation in a JVM

• Dayong Gu and Clark Verbrugge
• 2008 International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO), Boston, Massachusetts, 6-9 April.

Branch-on-Random

• Edward Lee and Craig Zilles
• 2008 International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO), Boston, Massachusetts, 6-9 April.

GC Assertions: Using the Garbage Collector to Check Heap Properties

• Edward Aftandilian and Samuel Guyer
• ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Memory Systems Performance and Correctness, Seattle, Washington, USA, 2 March, 2008

A Method Specialisation and Virtualised Execution Environment for Java

• A.M. Cheadle, A.J. Field and J. Nystrom-Persson
• Fourth ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS international conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE), Seattle, Washington, USA, 5-7 March, 2008

Dynamic Analysis of Java Program Concepts for Visualization and Profiling

• Jeremy Singer and Chris Kirkham
• Science of Computer Programming, vol. 70, no.2-3, pp.111-126, Elsevier, Feb 2008.

Object Co-location and Memory Reuse for Java Programs

• Zoe C. H. Yu, Francis C. M. Lau, and Cho-Li Wang
• ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization, Vol. 4, No. 4, Article 23, January 2008.

2007

Effective Prefetch for Mark-Sweep Garbage Collection

• Robin Garner, Stephen Blackburn, & Daniel Frampton
• ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on Memory Management (ISMM), Montreal, October 2007
• Patch against Jikes RVM r10327 available here.

Decrypting the Java Gene Pool: Predicting Object Lifetimes with Micro-Patterns

• Sebastien Marion, Richard Jones, & Chris Ryder
• ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on Memory Management (ISMM), Montreal, October 2007

Uniqueness Inference for Compile-Time Object Deallocation

• Sigmund Cherem & Radu Rugina
• ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on Memory Management (ISMM), Montreal, October 2007

Statistically Rigorous Java Performance Evaluation

• Andy Georges, Dries Buytaert, Lieven Eeckhout
• ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA), Montreal, October 2007

Using HPM-Sampling to Drive Dynamic Compilation

• Dries Buytaert, Andy Georges, Michael Hind, Matthew Arnold, Lieven Eeckhout, Koen De Bosschere
• ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA), Montreal, October 2007

Intelligent Selection of Application-Specific Garbage Collectors

• Jeremy Singer, Gavin Brown, Ian Watson, John Cavazos
• ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on Memory Management (ISMM), Montreal, October 2007

Probabilistic Calling Context

• Michael D. Bond, Kathryn S. McKinley.
• ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA), Montreal, October 2007
• Source code available on the Research Archive.

Tracking Bad Apples: Reporting the Origin of Null and Undefined Value Errors

• Michael D. Bond, Nicholas Nethercote, Stephen W. Kent, Samuel Z. Guyer, Kathryn S. McKinley.
• ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA), Montreal, October 2007
• Source code available on the Research Archive.

Java Object Header Elimination for Reduced Memory Consumption in 64-Bit Virtual Machines

• Kris Venstermans, Lieven Eeckhout, and Koen De Bosschere.
• ACM Transactions on Code Optimizations (TACO), Vol 4, No. 3, Article 17, September 2007

Optimizing Chip Multiprocessor Work Distribution using Dynamic Compilation

• Jisheng Zhao, Matthew Horsnell, Ian Rogers, Andrew Dinn, Chris Kirkham, Ian Watson.
• Proceedings of  Euro-Par, IRISA/ENS Cachan, Rennes, France, 28-31 August 2007

GCH: Hints for Triggering Garbage Collections

• Dries Buytaert, Kris Venstermans, Lieven Eeckhout, and Koen De Bosschere.
• Transactions on High-Performance Embedded Architectures and Compilers I

Object-Relative Addressing: Compressed Pointers in 64-Bit Java Virtual Machines

• Kris Venstermans, Lieven Eeckhout, and Koen De Bosschere.
• Proceedings of 21st European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP ‘07), July 30 - August 3, 2007

Fast Online Pointer Analysis

• Martin Hirzel, Daniel von Dincklage, Amer Diwan, and Michael Hind.
• Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS), April 2007.

Correcting the Dynamic Call Graph Using Control Flow Constraints

• Byeongcheol Lee, Kevin Resnick, Michael D. Bond, Kathryn S. McKinley
• Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Compiler Construction (CC 2007), Braga, Portugal, March 2007

Isla Vista Heap Sizing: Using Feedback to Avoid Paging

• Chris Grzegorczyk, Sunil Soman, Chandra Krintz, Rich Wolski
• Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO 2007), San Jose, California, March 2007

Transactional Collection Classes

• Brian D. Carlstrom, Austen McDonald, Michael Carbin, Christos Kozyrakis, Kunle Olukotun (Stanford University)
• Principles and Practice of Parallel Computing (PPoPP 2007), San Jose, California, 15 March 2007.

A Scalable, Non-blocking Approach to Transactional Memory

• H. Chafi, J. Casper, B. D. Carlstrom, A. McDonald, C. Cao Minh, W. Baek, C. Kozyrakis, and K. Olukotun (Stanford University)
• The 13th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), Phoenix, Arizona, February 10-14, 2007.

Mobility of Data in Distributed Hybrid Computing Systems

• Philippe Faes, Mark Christiaens and Dirk Stroobandt
• Proceedings of the 21st International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, 2007

Transactional Memory: The Hardware-Software Interface

• Austen McDonald, Brian D. Carlstrom, JaeWoong Chung, Chi Cao Minh, Hassan Chafi, Christos Kozyrakis, Kunle Olukotun
• Micro’s Top Picks, IEEE Micro January/February 2007 (Vol. 27, No. 1).

Cork: Dynamic Memory Leak Detection for Java

• Maria Jump, Kathryn S. McKinley
• Proceedings of the 2007 Principles of Programming Languages, Nice, France, January 2007

2006

Lazy Interprocedural Analysis for Dynamic Loop Parallelization

• Jisheng Zhao, Chris Kirkham, Ian Rogers
• New Horizons in Compilers, Bangalore, India, December 18, 2006.

Leveraging strong agent mobility for Aglets with the Mobile JikesRVM framework

• Raffaele Quitadamo, Letizia Leonardi, Giacomo Cabri
• Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience, ISSN: 1895-1767, Volume 7, No. 4, December 2006.

Executing Java programs with transactional memory

• Brian D. Carlstrom, JaeWoong Chung, Hassan Chafi, Austen McDonald, Chi Cao Minh, Lance Hammond, Christos Kozyrakis, Kunle Olukotun
• Science of Computer Programming, Volume 63, Issue 2, 1 December 2006, Pages 111-129.

CRAMM: Virtual Memory Support for Garbage-Collected Applications

• Ting Yang and Emery D. Berger and Scott F. Kaplan and J. Eliot B. Moss
• Proceedings of the 7th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), Seattle, Washington, November, 2006.

Revocation techniques for Java concurrency

• Welc A, Jagannathan S and Hosking AL.
• Concurrency and Computation - Practice and Experience 18(2):1613-1656, October 2006.

JAVANA: A System for Building Customized Java Program Analysis Tools

• Jonas Maebe, Dries Buytaert, Lieven Eeckhout, Koen De Bosschere
• ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA), Portland, Oregon, October 22-26, 2006.

The DaCapo Benchmarks: Java Benchmarking Development and Analysis

• Stephen M Blackburn, Robin Garner, Chris Hoffmann, Asjad M Khan, Kathryn S. McKinley, Rotem Bentzur, Amer Diwan, Daniel Feinberg, Daniel Frampton, Samuel Z. Guyer, Martin Hirzel, Antony Hosking, Maria Jump, Han Lee, J. Eliot B. Moss, Aashish Phansalkar, Darko Stefanovic, Thomas VanDrunen, Daniel von Dincklage, Benjamin Wiedermann
• ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA), Portland, Oregon, October 22-26, 2006.

Method-Specific Dynamic Compilation using Logistic Regression

• John Cavazos, Michael O’Boyle
• ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA), Portland, Oregon, October 22-26, 2006.

Adapting VM Techniques for Seamless Aspect Support

• Christoph Bockisch, Matthew Arnold, Tom Dinkelaker, Mira Mezini
• ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA), Portland, Oregon, October 22-26, 2006.

Efficient Control Flow Quantification

• Christoph Bockisch, Sebastian Kanthak, Michael Haupt, Matthew Arnold, Mira Mezini,
• ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA), Portland, Oregon, October 22-26, 2006.

Bell: Bit-Encoding Online Memory Leak Detection

• Michael D. Bond, Kathryn S. McKinley.
• Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems ( ASPLOS-XII), San Jose, October 21-25, 2006.
• Source code available on the Research Archive.

Trace-based automatic parallelization in the Jikes RVM

• Borys Bradel and Tarek S. Abdelrahman
• '’Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Compiler-Driven Performance,’’ Toronto, Canada, Oct 16, 2006.

Enabling Java Mobile Computing on the IBM Jikes Research Virtual Machine

• Giacomo Cabri, Letizia Leonardi, ’'’Raffaele Quitadamo’’’.
• '’Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on the Principles and Practice of Programming in Java 2006 (PPPJ)’’, Mannheim, Germany, August 2006, ACM Press.

Transparently reconciling transactions with locking for Java synchronization

• Welc A, Hosking AL, Jagannathan S.
• Proceedings of the 20th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP):148-173 (Nantes, France, July 2006), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4067, Springer-Verlag, 2006.

Architectural Semantics for Practical Transactional Memory

• Austen McDonald, JaeWoong Chung, Brian D. Carlstrom, Chi Cao Minh, Hassan Chafi, Christos Kozyrakis, and Kunle Olukotun.
• '’Proceedings of the 33rd Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture’’, Boston, Massachusetts, June 17-21, 2006.

Relative Factors in Performance Analysis of JVMs

• Dayong Gu, Clark Verbrugge, and Etienne M. Gagnon
• '’Proceedings of the 2nd Annual International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments’’, Ottawa, Canada, June 14-16, 2006.

Impact of Virtual Execution Environments on Processor Energy Consumption and Hardware Adaptation

• Shiwen Hu and Lizy K. John
• '’Proceedings of the 2nd Annual International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments’’, Ottawa, Canada, June 14-16, 2006.

Free-Me: A Static Analysis for Automatic Individual Object Reclamation

• Samuel Z. Guyer, Kathryn S. McKinley, and Daniel Frampton.
• '’Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 2006 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation’’, Ottawa, Canada, June 10-16, 2006.

The Compressor: Concurrent, Incremental, and Parallel Compaction

• Haim Kermany, Erez Petrank.
• '’Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 2006 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation’’, Ottawa, Canada, June 10-16, 2006.

The Atomos Transactional Programming Language

• Brian D. Carlstrom, Austen McDonald, Hassan Chafi, JaeWoong Chung, Chi Cao Minh, Christos Kozyrakis, and Kunle Olukotun.
• '’Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 2006 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation’’, Ottawa, Canada, June 10-16, 2006.

Parallelizing SPECjbb2000 with Transactional Memory

• JaeWoong Chung, Chi Cao Minh, Brian D. Carlstrom, and Christos Kozyrakis.
• '’Workshop on Transactional Memory Workloads’’, Ottawa, Canada, June 10, 2006.

Reducing generational copy reserve overhead with fallback compaction

• McGachey P, Hosking AL.
• Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on Memory Management (ISMM):17-28 (Ottawa, Canada, June 2006), ACM.

Strong Agent Mobility for Aglets based on the IBM JikesRVM

• Giacomo Cabri, Luca Ferrari, Letizia Leonardi, Raffaele Quitadamo
• The 21st ACM International Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), Dijon, France, April 2006

Hybrid Optimizations: Which Optimization Algorithm to Use?

• John Cavazos, J. Eliot B. Moss, and Michael F.P. O’Boyle
• '’15th International Conference on Compiler Construction (CC 2006)’’, Vienna, Austria, March 30 - 31, 2006.

Space-Efficient 64-bit Java Objects through Selective Typed Virtual Addressing

• Kris Venstermans, Lieven Eeckhout, and Koen De Bosschere.
• '’The 4th Annual International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO)’’, New York. March 26-29, 2006.

Dynamic Class Hierarchy Mutation

• Lixin Su and Mikko H Lipasti.
• '’The 4th Annual International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO)’’, New York. March 26-29, 2006.

Online Phase Detection Algorithms

• Priya Nagpurkar, Michael Hind, Chandra Krintz, Peter F. Sweeney, and V.T. Rajan.
• '’The 4th Annual International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO)’’, New York. March 26-29, 2006.

The Common Case Transactional Behavior of Multithreaded Programs

• JaeWoong Chung, Chi Cao Minh, Hassan Chafi, Austen McDonald, Brian D. Carlstrom, Christos Kozyrakis, and Kunle Olukotun.
• '’12th International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA)’’, Austin, Texas, USA, February 11-15, 2006.

64-bit versus 32-bit Virtual Machines for Java

• Kris Venstermans, Lieven Eeckhout, and Koen De Bosschere
• '’Software: Practice and Experience’’, January 2006.

Compiler Techniques for High Performance Sequentially Consistant Java Programs.

• Zehra Sura, Xing Fang, Chi-Leung Wong, Samuel P. Midkiff, Jaejin Lee, David Padua.
• '’11th International Workshop on Compilers for Parallel Computers (CPC 2006)’’, A Coruna, Spain. January 2006.

Automatic Tuning of Inlining Heuristics

• John Cavazos and Michael F.P. O’Boyle
• '’11th International Workshop on Compilers for Parallel Computers (CPC 2006)’’, A Coruna, Spain. January 2006.

2005

Loop Parallelisation for the Jikes RVM

• Jisheng Zhao, Ian Rogers, Chris Kirkham, and Ian Watson.
• '’6th Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies (PDCAT)’’, Dalian, China, December 5-8, 2005.

Continuous Path and Edge Profiling

• Michael D. Bond and Kathryn S. McKinley.
• 38th International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), Barcelona, November 14-16, 2005.
• Source code available on the Research Archive.

Garbage Collection Hints

• Dries Buytaert, Kris Venstermans, Lieven Eeckhout, and Koen De Bosschere.
• '’International Conference on High Performance Embedded Architectures & Compilers (HIPEAC’05)’’, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 3793, Springer-Verlag. Barcelona, Spain, November 2005.

Towards Continuous Usage Control on Grid Computational Services.

• Fabio Martinelli, Paolo Mori, and Anna Vaccarelli
• '’International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems and International Conference on Networking and Services’’, Papeete, Tahiti, October 23-28, 2005.

A Platform to Use Hardware Performance Counters for Dynamic Compilation

• Florian Schneider and Thomas Gross.
• '’Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing (LCPC)’’, IBM, Hawthorne, New York, October 20-21, 2005.’’

Comparing Low-Level Behavior of SPEC CPU and Java Workloads

• Andy Georges, Lieven Eeckhout and Koen De Bosschere
• Proceedings of 10th Asia-Pacific Conference, Advances in Computer Systems Architecture (ACSAC), Singapore, October 24-26, 2005.

Are Patches Cutting it? Structuring Distribution within a JVM using Aspects

• Jennifer Baldwin, Yvonne Coady
• '’2005 conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative research (CASCON)’’, Toronto, Canada, Oct 17-20, 2005.

Automating Vertical Profiling

• Matthias Hauswirth, Amer Diwan, Peter F. Sweeney, and Michael Mozer.
• '’ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA)’’, San Diego, California, October 16-20, 2005.

Improving Virtual Machine Performance Using a Cross-Run Repository

• Matthew Arnold, Adam Welc, and V.T. Rajan.
• '’ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA)’’, San Diego, California, October 16-20, 2005.

Quantifying the Performance of Garbage Collection vs. Explicit Memory Management

• Matthew Hertz and Emery Berger.
• '’ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA)’’, San Diego, California, October 16-20, 2005.

Quantifying the Performance of Garbage Collection vs.Explicit Memory Management

• Matthew Hertz and Emery Berger.
• '’ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA)’’, San Diego, California, October 16-20, 2005.

Runtime Specialization With Optimistic Heap Analysis

• Ajeet Shanker, Rastislav Bodik, Subramanya Sastry, and James Smith.
• '’ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA)’’, San Diego, California, October 16-20, 2005.

Safe Futures for Java

• Adam Welc, Suresh Jagannathan, and Antony L. Hosking.
• '’ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA)’’, San Diego, California, October 16-20, 2005.

Transactional Execution of Java Programs

• Brian D. Carlstrom, JaeWoong Chung, Hassan Chafi, Austen McDonald, Chi Cao Minh, Lance Hammond, Christos Kozyrakis, and Kunle Olukotun.
• '’OOPSLA 2005 Workshop on Synchronization and Concurrency in Object-Oriented Languages (SCOOL)’’, San Diego, California, USA, October 16, 2005.

Automatic Tuning of Inlining Heuristics

• John Cavazos and Michael F.P. O’Boyle

• '’SC	05 (Supercomputing): International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, and Storage’’, Seattle WA, November 12-18, 2005.

Testing in Resource Constrained Execution Environments

• Gregory M. Kapfhammer, Mary Lou Soffa, and Daniel Mosse
• '’ACM/IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering’’, LongBeach, CA, November 7-11, 2005.

JikesNode and PearColator: A Jikes RVM Operating System and Legacy Code Execution Environment

• Ian Rogers and Chris Kirkham.
• '’The 2nd ECOOP Workshop on Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ECOOP-PLOS ‘05)’’, Glasgow, UK, July 26, 2005.

An Automatic Runtime DOALL Loop Parallelisation Optimization for Java

• Ian Rogers, Jisheng Zhao, Chris Kirkham, Ian Watson.
• '’Parallel/High-Performance Object-Oriented Scientific Computing (POOSC ‘05)’’, Glasgow, UK, July 25, 2005.

Characterization of TCC on Chip-Multiprocessors

• Austen McDonald, JaeWoong Chung, Hassan Chafi, Chi Cao Minh, Brian D. Carlstrom, Lance Hammond, Christos Kozyrakis, and Kunle Olukotun.
  *'’The Fourteenth International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT ‘05)’’, Saint Louis, Missouri, September 19, 2005.

FPGA-Aware Garbage Collection in Java

• Faes, Ph.; Christiaens, M.; Buytaert, D.; Stroobandt, D.
• '’IEEE 2005 International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL).’’, August 2005.

Garbage Collection Without Paging

• Matthew Hertz, Yi Feng, and Emery Berger.
• '’ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Languages Design and and Implementation (PLDI ‘05)’’, Chicago, Il, June 13, 2005

An Execution Layer for Aspect-Oriented Programming Languages

• Michael Haupt, Mira Mezini, Christoph Bockisch, Tom Dinelaker, Michael Eichberg, and Michael Krebs
• '’ACM SIGPLAN/USENIX Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE ‘05)’’, Chicago, Il, June 11-12, 2005

Immutability Specification and its Application

• Igor Pechtchanski and Vivek Sarkar.
• '’Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience’’, Vol 17, No 5-6, April/May 2005.

Age-Oriented Concurrent Garbage Collection

• Harel Paz, Erez Petrank, and Steve Blackburn.
• '’International Conference on Compiler Construction, European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software’’, Edinburgh, UK, April 2005.

An Efficient On-The-Fly Cycle Collection

• Harel Paz, Erez Petrank, David F. Bacon, Eliot K. Kolodner, and V.T. Rajan.
• '’International Conference on Compiler Construction, European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software’’, Edinburgh, UK, April 2005.

Jazz: A Tool for Demand-Driven Structural Testing

• Jonathan Misurda, Jim Clause, Juliya Reed, Bruce R. Childers, and Mary Lou Soffa.
• '’International Conference on Compiler Construction, European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software’’, Edinburgh, UK, April 2005.

A Study of Type Analysis for Speculative Method Inlining in a JIT Environment

• Feng Qian and Laurie Hendren.
• '’International Conference on Compiler Construction, European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software’’, Edinburgh, UK, April 2005.

Using Interprocedural Side-effect Information in JIT Optimizations

• Anatole Le, Ondrej Lhotak, and Laurie Hendren.
• '’International Conference on Compiler Construction, European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software’’, Edinburgh, UK, April 2005.

Effective Adaptive Computing Environment Management via Dynamic Optimization

• Shiwen Hu, Madhavi Valluri, Lizy K. John
• '’2005 International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization’’, San Jose, California, March 2005.

Collecting and Exploiting High-Accuracy Call Graph Profiles in Virtual Machines

• Matthew Arnold and David Grove
• '’2005 International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization’’, San Jose, California, March 2005.
• ’’‘(Source code available as of version 2.3.5 of Jikes RVM.)’’’

The Jikes Research Virtual Machine project: Building an open-source research community

• B. Alpern, S. Augart, S.M. Blackburn, M. Butrico, A. Cocchi, P Cheng, J. Dolby, S. Fink, D. Grove, M. Hind, K.S. McKinley, M. Mergen, J.E.B. Moss, T. Ngo, V. Sarkar, and M. Trapp.
• ’’ IBM Systems Journal’’, Vol 44, No 2, 2005.

2004

Anticipation-Based Partial Redundancy Elimination for Static Single Assignment Form

• Thomas VanDrunen and Antony Hosking.
• '’Software - Practice and Experience’’, 34(15):1413-1439, December 2004.

An Inlining Technique in Jikes RVM to Improve Performance

• Ritesh Kumar, Ragesh Jaiswal, and Sanjeev K. Aggarwal.
• '’Advances in Computer Science and Technology’’, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, November 2004.

Finding Your Cronies: Static Analysis for Dynamic Object Colocation

• Samuel Z. Guyer and Kathryn McKinley.
• '’ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA)’’, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, October 2004.

MC2: High-Performance Garbage Collection for Memory-Constrained Environments

• Narendran Sachindran, J. Eliot B. Moss, and Emery Berger.
• '’ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA)’’, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, October 2004.

Method-Level Phase Behavior in Java Workloads

• Andy Georges, Dries Buytaert, Lieven Eeckhout, and Koen De Bosschere.
• '’ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA)’’, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, October 2004.

Program Locality: The Garbage Collection Advantage

• Xianglong Huang, Steve Blackburn, Kathryn McKinley, J. Eliot B. Moss, Zhenlin Wang, and Perry Cheng.
• '’ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA)’’, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, October 2004.

Vertical Profiling: Understanding the Behavior of Object-Oriented Applications

• Matthias Hauswirth, Peter F. Sweeney, Amer Diwan, and Michael Hind.
• '’ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA)’’, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, October 2004.

Automatic Heap Sizing: Taking Real Memory Into Account

• Ting Yang, Emery Berger, Matthew Hertz, Scott F. Kaplan, and J. Eliot B. Moss.
• '’ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on Memory Management (ISMM ‘04)’’, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, October 2004.

Barriers: Friend or Foe?

• Steve Blackburn, and Antony Hosking.
• '’ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on Memory Management (ISMM ‘04)’’, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, October 2004.

Dynamic Object Sampling for Pretenuring

• Maria Jump, Steve Blackburn, and Kathryn McKinley.
• '’ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on Memory Management (ISMM ‘04)’’, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, October 2004.

Dynamic Selection of Application-Specific Garbage Collectors

• Sunil Soman, Chandra Krintz, and David F. Bacon.
• '’ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on Memory Management (ISMM ‘04)’’, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, October 2004.

Write Barrier Elision for Concurrent Garbage Collectors

• Martin Vechev and David F. Bacon.
• '’ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on Memory Management (ISMM ‘04)’’, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, October 2004.

Improving Grid Service Security with Fine Grain Policies

• Fabrizio Baiardi, Fabio Martinelli, Paolo Mori, and Anna Vaccarelli
• '’On the Move to Meaningful Internet System 2004: OTM Workshops, Lecture Notes in Computer Science’’ 3292: Springer Verlag (2004)

Virtual Machine Support for Aspects with Advice Instance Tables

• Michael Haupt and Mira Mezini.
• '’First French Workshop on Aspect-Oriented Programming’’, Paris, France, September 2004.

Micro-Measurements for Dynamic Aspect-Oriented Systems

• Michael Haupt and Mira Mezini.
• '’Net.ObjectDays 2004 (NODe)’’, Erfurt, Germany, September 2004.

The Use of Traces for Inlining in Java Programs

• Borys J. Bradel and Tarek S. Abdelrahman.
• '’Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing (LCPC)’’, Purdue University, Indiana, September 2004.

Online Impact Analysis via Dynamic Compilation Technology

• Ben Breech, Anthony Danalis, Stacey Shindo, and Lori Pollock
• '’International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM)’’, September 2004.

Preemption-Based Avoidance of Priority Inversion for Java

• Adam Welc, Antony L. Hosking, and Suresh Jagannathan.
• '’International Conference on Parallel Programming (ICPP’04)’’, Montreal, Canada, August 2004.

Value-Based Partial Redundancy Elimination

• Thomas VanDrunen and Antony Hosking.
• '’International Conference on Compiler Construction, European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software’’, Barcelona, Spain, June 2004.

Adaptive Tuning of Reserved Space in an Appel Collector

• Jose Manuel Velasco, Katzalin Olcoz, and Francisco Tirado.
• '’European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP’04)’’, Oslo, Norway, June 2004.

Pointer Analysis in the Presence of Dynamic Class Loading

• Martin Hirzel, Amer Diwan, and Michael Hind.
• '’European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP’04)’’, Oslo, Norway, June 2004.

Transactional Monitors for Concurrent Objects

• Adam Welc, Suresh Jagannathan, Antony L. Hosking.
• '’European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP’04)’’, Oslo, Norway, June 2004.

Visualization and Analysis of Phased Behavior in Java Programs

• Priya Nagpurka and Chandra Krintz.
• '’ACM International Conference on the Principles and Practice of Programming in Java (PPPJ)’’, Las Vegas, NV, June 2004.

Myths and Reality: The Performance Impact of Garbage Collection

• Steve Blackburn, Perry Cheng, and Kathryn McKinley.
• '’Sigmetrics - Performance 2004, Joint International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems’’, New York, New York, June 2004.
• ’’‘(Source code available as of version 2.3.2 of Jikes RVM.)’’’

Adaptive Code Unloading for Resource-Constrained JVMs

• Lingli Zhang and Chandra Krintz.
• '’ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems (LCTES ‘04) and Software and Compilers for Embedded Systems (SCOPES ‘04)’’, Washington DC, June 2004.

Inducing Heuristics to Decide Whether to Schedule

• John Cavazos and J. Eliot B. Moss.
• '’ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Languages Design and and Implementation (PLDI ‘04)’’, Washington DC, June 2004.

Oil and Water: High Performance Garbage Collection in Java with MMTk

• Steve Blackburn, Perry Cheng, and Kathryn McKinley.
• '’ICSE 2004, 26th International Conference on Software Engineering’’, Edinburgh, Scotland, May 2004.
• ’’‘(Source code available as of version 2.3.2 of Jikes RVM.)’’’

Towards Dynamic Interprocedural Analysis in JVMs

• Feng Qian and Laurie Hendren.
• '’USENIX 3rd Virtual Machine Research and Technology Symposium (VM’04)’’, San Jose, California, May, 2004.

Using Hardware Performance Monitors to Understand the Behavior of Java Application

• Peter F. Sweeney, Matthias Hauswirth, Brendon Cahoon, Perry Cheng, Amer Diwan, David Grove, and Michael Hind.
• '’USENIX 3rd Virtual Machine Research and Technology Symposium (VM’04)’’, San Jose, California, May, 2004.

JVM Independent Replay in Java

• Viktor Schuppan, Marcel Baur, and Armin Biere.
• '’Fourth Workshop on Runtime Verification (RV’04)’’, Barcelona, Spain, April, 2004.

A Semantic Framework for Designer Transactions

• Jan Vitek, Suresh Jagannathan, Adam Welc, and Antony L. Hosking.
• '’European Symposium on Programming (ESOP’04)’’, Barcelona, Spain, March, 2004.

Virtual Machine Support for Dynamic Join Points

• Christoph Bockisch, Michael Haupt, Mira Mezini,and Klaus Ostermann.
• '’International Conference on Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSDP’04)’’, Lancaster, UK, March, 2004.

2003

The Metronome: A Simpler Approach to Garbage Collection in Real-time Systems

• David F. Bacon, Perry Cheng, and V.T. Rajan.
• '’Workshop on Java Technologies for Real-Time and Embedded Systems’’, Catania, Sicily, November 2003.

Ulterior Reference Counting: Fast Garbage Collection without a Long Wait

• Steve Blackburn and Kathryn McKinley.
• '’ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA)’’, Anaheim, California, October 2003.

An On-the-Fly Mark and Sweep Garbage Collector Based on Sliding Views

• Hezi Azatchi, Yossi Levanoni, Harel Paz, and Erez Petrank.
• '’ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA)’’, Anaheim, California, October 2003.

MarkCopy: Fast Copying GC with Less Space Overhead

• Narendran Sachindran and J. Eliot B. Moss.
• '’ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA)’’, Anaheim, California, October 2003.

Connectivity-Based Garbage Collection

• Martin Hirzel, Amer Diwan, and Matthew Hertz.
• '’ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA)’’, Anaheim, California, October 2003.

How Java Programs Interact with Virtual Machines at the Microarchitectural Level

• Lieven Eeckhout, Andy Georges, and Koen De Bosschere.
• '’ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA)’’, Anaheim, California, October 2003.

Transparent Fault-Tolerant Java Virtual Machine

• Roy Friedman and Alon Kama.
• '’22nd IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS)’’, Florence, Italy, October, 2003.

JToe: A Java API for Object Exchange

• Serge Chaumette, Pascal Grange, Benoit Metrot, and Pierre Vigneras.
• '’Parallel Computing/ParCo 2003’’, September 2003.

High-performance Java code for computation fluid dynamics

• C. J. Riley, Sid Chatterjee, and R. Biswas.
• '’Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience’’, 15:395-415, 2003.

Detecting Malicious Java Code Using Virtual Machine Auditing

• Sunil Soman, Chandra Krintz and Giovanni Vigna.
• '’12th USENIX Security Symposium’’, Washington D.C., August 2003.

Controlling Fragmentation and Space Consumption in the Metronome, a Real-time Garbage Collector for Java

• David F. Bacon, Perry Cheng, and V.T. Rajan.
• '’Conference on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems’’, San Diego, California, June 2003.

Designing a Distributed JVM on a Cluster

• John N Zigman and Ramesh Sanakaranarayana.
• '’17th European Simulation Multiconference’’, Nottingham, United Kingdom, June 2003.

Integrating Generations with Advanced Reference Counting Garbage Collectors

• Hezi Azatchi and Erez Petrank.
• '’12th International Conference on Compiler Construction’’, Warsaw, Poland, April 2003.

Just-In-Time Aspects: Efficient Dynamic Weaving for Java

• Andrei Popovici, Gustavo Alonso and Thomas Gross.
• '’2nd International Conference on Aspect-Oriented Software Development’’, Boston, Massachussetts, March 2003.

Design, Implementation and Evaluation of Adaptive Recompilation with On-Stack Replacement

• Stephen Fink, and Feng Qian.
• '’International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization’’, San Francisco, California, March 2003.
• ’’‘(Source code available as of version 2.2.1 of Jikes RVM.)’’’

Adaptive Online Context-Sensitive Inlining

• Kim Hazelwood and David Grove.
• '’International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization’’, San Francisco, California, March 2003.

Coupling On-Line and Off-Line Profile Information to Improve Program Performance

• Chandra Krintz.
• '’International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization’’, San Francisco, California, March 2003.

A Real-time Garbage Collector with Low Overhead and Consistent Utilization

• David F. Bacon, Perry Cheng, and V. T. Rajan.
• '’Conference Record of the Thirtieth ACM Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages’’, New Orleans, Louisiana, January 2003.

Using the SafeTSA Representation to Boost the Performance of an Existing Java Virtual Machine

• Wolfram Amme, Jeffrey von Ronne, and Michael Franz.
• '’10th International Workshop on Compilers for Parallel Computers (CPC 2003)’’, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. January 2003.

2002

Online Feedback-Directed Optimization of Java

• Matthew Arnold, Michael Hind, and Barbara G. Ryder.
• '’ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA)’’, Seatle, Washington, November 4-8, 2002.

Creating and Preserving Locality of Java Applications at Allocation and Garbage Collection Times

• Yefim Shuf, Manish Gupta, Hubertus Franke, Andrew Appel, and Jaswinder Pal Singh.
• '’ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA)’’, Seatle, Washington, November 4-8, 2002.

GCspy: An Adaptable Heap Visualisation Framework

• Tony Printezis and Richard Jones.
• '’ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA)’’, Seatle, Washington, November 4-8, 2002.

Immutability Specification and its Applications

• Igor Pechtchanski and Vivek Sarkar.
• '’Joint ACM Java Grande - ISCOPE 2002 Conference’’, Seatle, Washington, November 3-5, 2002.

Experiences Porting the Jikes RVM to Linux/IA32

• Bowen Alpern, Maria Butrico, Tony Cocchi, Julian Dolby, Stephen Fink, David Grove, and Ton Ngo.
• '’2nd Java Virtual Machine Research and Technology Symposium (JVM ‘02)’’, San Francisco, California, August 1-2, 2002.
• ’’‘(Source code available as of version 2.1.0 of Jikes RVM.)’’’

Automatic Implementation of Programming Language Consistency Models

• Zehra Sura, Chi-Leung Wong, Xing Fang, Jaejin Lee, S.P. Midkiff, and David Padua.
• '’Fifteenth Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing’’, July, 2002.

In or Out? Putting Write Barriers in Their Place

• Steve Blackburn and Kathryn McKinley.
• '’ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on Memory Management (ISMM ‘02)’’, Berlin, Germany, June 20-21, 2002.

An Adaptive, Region-based Allocator for Java

• Feng Qian and Laurie Hendren.
• '’ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on Memory Management (ISMM ‘02)’’, Berlin, Germany, June 20-21, 2002.

Understanding the Connectivity of Heap Objects

• Martin Hirzel, Johannes Henkel, Amer Diwan, Michael Hind.
• '’ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on Memory Management (ISMM ‘02)’’, Berlin, Germany, June 20-21, 2002.

When to Use a Compilation Service?

• Jeffrey Palm, Han Lee, Amer Diwan, J. Eliot B. Moss.
• '’ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems (LCTES ‘02) and Software and Compilers for Embedded Systems (SCOPES ‘02)’’, Berlin, Germany, June 19-21 2002.

Beltway: Getting Around Garbage Collection Gridlock

• Steve Blackburn, Richard Jones, Kathryn McKinley, J. Eliot B. Moss.
• '’ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI ‘02)’’, Berlin, Germany, June 17-19 2002.

Static Load Classification for Improving the Value Predictability of Data-Cache Misses

• Martin Burtscher, Amer Diwan, Matthias Hauswirth.
• '’ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI ‘02)’’, Berlin, Germany, June 17-19 2002.

Efficient and Precise Datarace Detection for Multithreaded Object-Oriented Programs

• Jong-Deok Choi, Keunwoo Lee, Alexey Loginov, Robert O’Callahan, Vivek Sarkar, and Manu Sridharan.
• '’ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI ‘02)’’, Berlin, Germany, June 17-19 2002.

Older-first Garbage Collection in Practice: Evaluation in a Java Virtual Machine

• Darko Stefanovic, Matthew Hertz, Steve M. Blackburn, Kathryn S. McKinley and J. Eliot B. Moss.
• '’ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Memory System Performance (MSP ‘02)’’, Berlin, Germany, June 16, 2002.

Error-Free Garbage Collection Traces: How To Cheat and Not Get Caught

• Matthew Hertz, Steve Blackburn, J. Eliot B. Moss, Kathryn McKinley, and Darko Stefanovic.
• '’ACM SIGMetrics 2002’’, Marina del Rey, CA June 15-19 2002.

Using Adaptive Optimization Techniques to Teach Mobile Java Computing

• Chandra Krintz.
• '’Principles and Practice of Programming in Java’’, Dublin, Ireland, June 13-14, 2002.

Thin Guards: A Simple and Effective Technique for Reducing the Penalty of Dynamic Class Loading.

• Matthew Arnold and Barbara G. Ryder.
• '’European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2002)’’, Malaga Spain, June 10-14 2002.

Atomic Instructions in Java

• David Hovemeyer, William Pugh, and Jaime Spacco.
• '’European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2002)’’, Malaga Spain, June 10-14 2002.

Space- and Time-Efficient Implementation of the Java Object Model

• David Bacon, Stephen Fink, and David Grove.
• '’European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2002)’’, Malaga Spain, June 10-14, 2002.
• ’’‘(Source code available as of version 2.1.0 of Jikes RVM.)’’’

The Pensieve Project: A Compiler Infrastructure for Memory Models

• C.-L. Wong, Z. Sura, X. Fang, S.P. Midkiff, J. Lee, and D. Padua.
• '’The Sixth International Symposium on Parallel Architectures, Algorithms, and Networks’’, May, 2002.

Exploiting Prolific Types for Memory Management and Optimizations

• Yefim Shuf, Manish Gupta, Rajesh Bordawekar, and Jaswinder Pal Singh.
• '’29th ACM SIGPLAN/SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL)’’, Portland, OR, January 2002.

2001

Efficient Implementation of Java Interfaces: Invokeinterface Considered Harmless

• Bowen Alpern, Anthony Cocchi, Stephen Fink, David Grove, and Derek Lieber.
• '’ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA)’’, Tampa, FL, USA, Oct 14-18, 2001.
• ’’‘(Source code available as of version 2.0.0 of Jikes RVM.)’’’

Pretenuring for Java

• Steve Blackburn, Sharad Singhai, Matthew Hertz, Kathryn S. McKinley, and J. Eliot B. Moss.
• '’ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA)’’, Tampa, FL, USA, Oct 14-18, 2001.

Dynamic Optimistic Interprocedural Analysis: A Framework and an Application

• Igor Pechtchanski and Vivek Sarkar.
• '’ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA)’’, Tampa, FL, USA, Oct 14-18, 2001.

Efficient Dependence Analysis For Java Arrays

• Vivek Sarkar and Stephen Fink.
• '’EURO-PAR 2001’’, Manchester, England, September, 2001.

A Comparative Evaluation of Parallel Garbage Collectors

• C. Attansio, David Bacon, Anthony Cocchi, and Stephen Smith.
• '’Fourteenth Annual Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing’’, Cumberland Falls, Kentucky, Aug, 2001.
• ’’‘(Source code available in versions 2.0.0 through 2.2.0 of Jikes RVM.)’’’

A Framework for Reducing the Cost of Instrumented Code

• Matthew Arnold and Barbara G. Ryder.
• '’ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI ‘01)’’, Snowbird, Utah, June 20-22, 2001.
• ’’‘(Source code available as of version 2.3.0 of Jikes RVM.)’’’

Java without the Coffee Breaks: A Non-intrusive Multiprocessor Garbage Collector

• David Bacon, C. Attanasio, Han Lee, V. Rajan, and Stephen Smith.
• '’ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI ‘01)’’, Snowbird, Utah, June 20-22, 2001.
• ’’‘(Source code available in versions 2.0.0 through 2.0.3 of Jikes RVM.)’’’

Program Analysis for Safety Guarantees in a Java Virtual Machine Written in Java.

• Jan-Willem Maessen, Vivek Sarkar, and David Grove.
• '’ACM SIGPLAN-SIGSOFT Workshop on Program Analysis for Software Tools and Engineering (PASTE ‘01),’’ Snowbird, Utah, June 18-19, 2001.
• ’’‘(Source code available as of version 2.0.0 of Jikes RVM.)’’’

Concurrent Cycle Collection in Reference Counted Systems

• David Bacon and V. Rajan.
• '’The Fifteenth European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP)’’, University Eötvös Loránd, Budapest, Hungary, June 18-22, 2001.
• ’’‘(Source code available in versions 2.0.0 through 2.0.3 of Jikes RVM.)’’’

Characterizing the Memory Behavior of Java Workloads: A Structured View and Opportunities for Optimizations

• Yefim Shuf, Mauricio Serrano, Manish Gupta, and Jaswinder Pal Singh.
• '’ACM SIGMETRICS 2001/Performance 2001’’, Cambridge, MA, June 2001.

High-Performance Java Codes for Computational Fluid Dynamics

• C. J. Riley, Sid Chatterjee, and R. Biswas.
• '’The Joint ACM Java Grande - ISCOPE 2001 Conference’’, Stanford, CA, June 2001.

Dynamic Type Checking in Jalapeño

• Bowen Alpern, Anthony Cocchi, and David Grove.
• '’The Usenix Java Virtual Machine Research and Technology Symposium,’’ April, 2001.
• ’’‘(Source code available as of version 2.0.0 of Jikes RVM.)’’’

2000

Reducing the Overhead of Dynamic Compilation

• Chandra Krintz, David Grove, Vivek Sarkar, and Brad Calder.
• '’Software: Practice and Experience’’, 31(8), 717-738, December 2000.

Adaptive Optimization in the Jalapeño JVM: The Controller’s Analytical Model

• Matthew Arnold, Stephen Fink, David Grove, Michael Hind, and Peter F. Sweeney.
• '’3rd ACM Workshop on Feedback-Directed and Dynamic Optimization (FDDO-3)’’, December 10, 2000, Monterey, California.
• ’’‘(Source code available as of version 2.0.0 of Jikes RVM.)’’’

Adaptive Optimization in the Jalapeño JVM

• Matthew Arnold, Stephen Fink, David Grove, Michael Hind, and Peter F. Sweeney.
• '’ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA 2000)’’, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 15-19, 2000.
• ’’‘(Source code available as of version 2.0.0 of Jikes RVM.)’’’

Quasi-Static Compilation for Java

• Mauricio Serrano, Rajesh Bordawekar, Sam Midkiff and Manish Gupta.
• ’’ ACM Conference onObject-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA)’’, October 2000.

Debugging by Remote Reflection

• Ton Ngo and John Barton.
• '’Euro-Par 2000,’’ Munich, Germany, August 27 - Sept 1 2000.
• ’’‘(Source code available as of versions 2.0.0 through 2.1.1 of Jikes RVM.)’’’

An Empirical Study of Selective Optimization

• Matthew Arnold, Michael Hind, and Barbara G. Ryder.
• '’13th International Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing’’, Yorktown Heights, New York, August 10-12, 2000.

Unified Analysis of Array and Object References in Strongly Typed Languages

• Stephen Fink, Kathleen Knobe, and Vivek Sarkar.
• '’2000 Static Analysis Symposium (SAS 2000)’’, Santa Barbara, CA, June, 2000.
• ’’‘(Source code available as of version 2.0.0 of Jikes RVM.)’’’

ABCD: Eliminating Array Bounds Checks on Demand

• Rastislav Bodik, Rajiv Gupta, and Vivek Sarkar.
• '’ACM SIGPLAN 2000 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI 2000)’’, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, June 17-21, 2000.
• ’’‘(Source code prototype available in versions 2.0.0 through 2.2.0 of Jikes RVM.)’’’

A Framework for Interprocedural Analysis and Optimization in the Presence of Dynamic Class Loading

• Vugranam C. Sreedhar, Michael Burke, and Jong-Deok Choi.
• ’’ ACM SIGPLAN 2000 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI 2000)’’, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, June 17-21, 2000.

Optimizing Java Programs in the Presence of Exceptions

• Manish Gupta, Jong-Deok Choi, and Michael Hind.
• ’’ 14th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2000),’’, June 12-16, 2000, Cannes, France.

The Jalapeño Virtual Machine

• B. Alpern, C. R. Attanasio, J. J. Barton, M. G. Burke, P Cheng, J.-D. Choi, A. Cocchi, S. J. Fink, D. Grove, M. Hind, S. F. Hummel, D. Lieber, V. Litvinov, M. F. Mergen, T. Ngo, J. R. Russell, V. Sarkar, M. J. Serrano, J. C. Shepherd, S. E. Smith, V. C. Sreedhar, H. Srinivasan, and J. Whaley.
• '’IBM System Journal’’, Vol 39, No 1, February 2000.
• ’’‘(Source code available as of version 2.0.0 of Jikes RVM.)’’’

A Comparative Study of Static and Profile-Based Heuristics for Inlining

• Matthew Arnold, Stephen Fink, Vivek Sarkar, and Peter F. Sweeney.
• '’2000 ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Dynamic and Adaptive Compilation and Optimization (DYNAMO ‘00)’’, Boston, Massachusetts, January 19-21, 2000.

1999

Implementing Jalapeño in Java

• Bowen Alpern, Dick Attanasio, John J. Barton, Anthony Cocchi, Susan Flynn Hummel, Derek Lieber, Mark Mergen, Ton Ngo, Janice Shepherd, and Stephen Smith.
• '’1999 ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA ‘99)’’, Denver, Colorado, November 1, 1999.
• ’’‘(Source code available as of version 2.0.0 of Jikes RVM.)’’’

Efficient and Precise Modeling of Exceptions for the Analysis of Java Programs

• Jong-Deok Choi, David Grove, Michael Hind, Vivek Sarkar.
• '’1999 ACM SIGPLAN-SIGSOFT Workshop on Program Analysis for Software Tools and Engineering (PASTE ‘99)’’, Toulouse, France, September 6, 1999.
• ’’‘(Source code available as of version 2.0.0 of Jikes RVM.)’’’

Dependence Analysis for Java

• Craig Chambers, Igor Pechtchanski, Vivek Sarkar, Mauricio Serrano, and Harini Srinivasan.
• '’Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing (LCPC 99),’’ La Jolla, CA, Aug 1999.
• ’’‘(Source code available as of version 2.0.0 of Jikes RVM.)’’’

The Jalapeño Dynamic Optimizing Compiler for Java

• Michael Burke, Jong-Deok Choi, Stephen Fink, David Grove, Michael Hind, Vivek Sarkar, Mauricio Serrano, V.C. Sreedhar, and Harini Srinivasan.
• '’1999 ACM Java Grande Conference’’, San Francisco, June 12-14, 1999.
• ’’‘(Source code available as of version 2.0.0 of Jikes RVM.)’’’

Jalapeño — a Compiler-supported Java Virtual Machine for Servers

• Bowen Alpern, Anthony Cocchi, Derek Lieber, Mark Mergen, and Vivek Sarkar.
• '’Workshop on Compiler Support for Software System (WCSSS 99)’’, Atlanta, GA, May 1999, held in conjunction with PLDI ‘99.
• ’’‘(Source code available as of version 2.0.0 of Jikes RVM.)’’’