HotSWUp 2012 - Fourth Workshop on Hot Topics in Software Upgrades (HotSWUp 2012)

The goal of the HotSWUp Workshop is to identify cutting-edge research for supporting software upgrades that are flexible, efficient, robust, and easy to specify and apply. Many diverse research areas are concerned with building large, evolving, highly-available systems. In particular, there has been a recent surge of interest on software upgrades in all of these areas, as reflected in the recent issues of conferences such as ICSE, ICDE, FSE, SIGMOD, OOPSLA, PLDI, SOSP, and OSDI. By seeking contributions from both academic researchers and industry practitioners, HotSWUp aims to combine novel ideas with experience from upgrading real systems.
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