Complete list of publications for Steve Blackburn

Book Chapters

Marquez, A., and Blackburn, S. M., Chapter 10, Addressing Complexity and Scale in a High Performance Object Server Succeeding with Object Databases: a practical look at today's implementations with Java and XML, Chaudhri, A and Zicari, R eds, John Wiley & Sons, 2001.

Journal Articles

Blackburn, S. M., McKinley, K.S., Hoffman, C., Khan, A. M., McKinley, K. S., Bentzur, R., Diwan, A., Feinberg, D., Frampton, D., Guyer, S. Z., Hirzel, M., Hosking, A., Jump, M., Lee, H., Moss, J. E. B., Phansalkar, A., Stefanovic, D., VanDrunen, T., von Dincklage, D., and Wiedermann, B.  The DaCapo Benchmarks: Java Benchmarking Development and Analysis, OOPSLA 2006, ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications, (Portland, OR, USA, October 22-26, 2006).

Blackburn, S. M., Hertz, M., McKinley, K. S., Moss, J.E.B., and Yang, T. Profile-based pretenuring, ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS), (27), 1, 2007.

Hertz, M., Blackburn, S. M., Moss, J.E.B., McKinley, K. S., and Stefanovic, D. Generating object lifetime traces with Merlin, ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS), (28), 3, pp 476-512, 2006.

Aplern, B., Augart, S., Blackburn, S. M., Butrico, M., Cocchi, A., Cheng, P., Dolby, J., Fink, S., Grove, D., Hind, M., McKinley, K.S., Mergen, M., Moss, J.E.B., Ngo, T., and Sarkar, V. The Jikes research virtual machine project: building an open-source research community, IBM Systems Journal, (44), 2, pp 399-417, 2005.

Marquez, A., Zigman, J. N., and Blackburn, S. M., Fast Portable Orthogonally Persistent Java, Software - Practice & Experience, (30), 4, pp 449-479, 2000.

Refereed Conference Papers

Blackburn, S. M. and McKinley, K. S.  Immix: A Mark-Region Garbage Collector with Space Efficiency, Fast Collection, and Mutator Performance ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI 2008), (Tucson, AZ, USA, June 7-13, 2008).

Garner, R., Blackburn, S. M. and Frampton, D.  Effective Prefetch for Mark-Sweep Garbage Collection The 2007 International Symposium on Memory Management (ISMM 2007), (Montreal, Canada, October 21-22, 2007).

Blackburn, S. M., Garner, R., Hoffman, C., Khan, A. M., McKinley, K. S., Bentzur, R., Diwan, A., Feinberg, D., Frampton, D., Guyer, S. Z., Hirzel, M., Hosking, A., Jump, M., Lee, H., Moss, J. E. B., Phansalkar, A., Stefanovic, D., VanDrunen, T., von Dincklage, D., and Wiedermann, B.  The DaCapo Benchmarks: Java Benchmarking Development and Analysis, OOPSLA 2006, ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications, (Portland, OR, USA, October 22-26, 2006).

Huang, X., Blackburn, S. M., Grove, D., and McKinley, K.S.  Fast and Efficient Partial Code Reordering: Taking Advantage of Dynamic Recompilation The 2006 International Symposium on Memory Management (ISMM 2006), (Ottawa, Canada, June 10-11, 2006).

Paz, H., Petrank, E., and Blackburn, S. M.  Age-Oriented Concurrent Garbage Collection CC 2005, Compiler Construction, 14th International Conference, (Edinburgh, UK, April 4-8, 2005). Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3443, Springer.

Huang, X., Blackburn, S. M., McKinley, K. S., Moss, J. E. B., Wang, Z., and Cheng, P.  The Garbage Collection Advantage: Improving Program Locality OOPSLA 2004, ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications, (Vancouver, Canada, October 24-28, 2004).

Blackburn, S. M. and Hosking, A. L.  Barriers: Friend or Foe? The 2004 International Symposium on Memory Management (ISMM 2004), (Vancouver, Canada, October 24-25, 2004).

Jump, M., Blackburn, S. M. and McKinley, K. S.  Dynamic Object Sampling for Pretenuring The 2004 International Symposium on Memory Management (ISMM 2004), (Vancouver, Canada, October 24-25, 2004).

Blackburn, S. M., Cheng, P., and McKinley, K. S.  Myths and Reality: The Performance Impact of Garbage Collection Sigmetrics - Performance 2004, Joint International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, (New York, New York, USA, June 12-16, 2004).

Blackburn, S. M., Cheng, P., and McKinley, K. S.  Oil and Water? High Performance Garbage Collection in Java with MMTk ICSE 2004, 26th International Conference on Software Engineering, (Edinburgh, Scotland, May 23-28, 2004). (to appear)

Blackburn, S. M. and McKinley, K. S.  Ulterior Reference Counting: Fast Garbage Collection without a Long Wait OOPSLA 2003, ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications, (Anaheim, CA, USA, October 26-30, 2003).

Blackburn, S. M., Jones, R., McKinley, K. S., and Moss, J. E. B.  Beltway: Getting around Garbage Collection Gridlock Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI), (Berlin, Germany, June 17 - 19, 2002).

Blackburn, S. M. and McKinley, K. S.  In or Out? Putting Write Barriers in Their Place International Symposium on Memory Management (ISMM), (Berlin, Germany, June 20 - 21, 2002).

Stefanovic, D., Hertz, M., Blackburn, S. M., McKinley, K. S., and Moss, J. E. B.  Older-first Garbage Collection in Practice: Evaluation in a Java Virtual Machine ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Memory System Performance (MSP), (Berlin, Germany, June 16, 2002)

Hertz, M., Blackburn, S. M., Moss, J.E.B., McKinley, K. S., and Stefanovic, D.  Error-Free Garbage Collection Traces: How to Cheat and Not Get Caught ACM Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (SIGMETRICS '02), (Marina Del Ray, CA, U.S.A., June 15-19, 2002).

Blackburn, S. M., Singhai, S., Hertz, M., McKinley, K. S., and Moss, J. E. B.  Pretenuring for Java OOPSLA 2001, ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications, (Tampa, FL, USA, Oct. 14 - 18, 2001).

Marquez, A., Blackburn, S. M., Mercer, G., and Zigman, J. N.  Implementing Orthogonally Persistent Java Advances in Persistent Object Systems: Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Persistent Object Systems (POS9), (Lillehammer, Norway, Sept. 6 - 8, 2000).

He, Z., Blackburn, S. M., Kirby, L., and Zigman, J.  Platypus: The design and implementation of a flexible high performance object storeAdvances in Persistent Object Systems: Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Persistent Object Systems (POS9), (Lillehammer, Norway, Sept. 6 - 8, 2000).

Zigman, J. N., Blackburn, S. M., and Moss, J.E.B.  TMOS: A Transactional Garbage Collector Advances in Persistent Object Systems: Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Persistent Object Systems (POS9), (Lillehammer, Norway, Sept. 6 - 8, 2000).

He, Z., Marquez, A., and Blackburn, S. M., Opportunistic Prioritised Clustering Framework (OPCF) Objects and Databases, International Symposium (Sophia Antipolis, France, June 13, 2000) Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1944, Springer, 2001.

Blackburn, S.M., Hudson, R., Morrison, R., Moss, J.E.B., Munro, D., and Zigman, J. Starting with Termination: A Methodology for Building Distributed Garbage Collection Algorithms Proceedings of the Australian Computer Science Conference (Gold Coast, Australia, Jan 29-31, 2001).

Blackburn, S. M., and Stanton, R. B. The Transactional Object Cache: A foundation for high performance persistent system construction. Advances in Persistent Object Systems: Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Persistent Object Systems (POS8) and Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Persistence and Java (PJW3), (Tiburon, CA, U.S.A., Aug. 30 - Sept. 1 1998).

Blackburn, S. M., and Zigman, J. N. Concurrency - The fly in the ointment? Advances in Persistent Object Systems: Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Persistent Object Systems (POS8) and Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Persistence and Java (PJW3), (Tiburon, CA, U.S.A., Aug. 30 - Sept. 1 1998).

Zigman, J. N., and Blackburn, S. M. Java Finalize Method, Orthogonal Persistence and Transactions. Advances in Persistent Object Systems: Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Persistent Object Systems (POS8) and Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Persistence and Java (PJW3), (Tiburon, CA, U.S.A., Aug. 30 - Sept. 1 1998).

Blackburn, S. M., and Stanton, R. B. The Transactional Object Cache as a Basis for Persistent Java System Construction. In 2nd International  Workshop on Persistence and Java (Half Moon Bay, CA, U.S.A., Aug. 13-15 1997).

Blackburn, S. M., and Stanton, R. B. Scalable Multicomputer Object Spaces: a Foundation for High Performance Systems. In Proceedings of the Third International Working Conference on Massively Parallel Programming Models (London, Nov. 12-14 1997), IEEE.

Blackburn, S. M., Scheuerl, S. J. G., Stanton, R. B., and Johnson, C. W. Recovery and page coherency for a scalable multicomputer object store. In 30th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (Hawaii, U.S.A., Jan. 7-10 1997), pp 523-532.

Blackburn, S. M., and Stanton, R. B Multicomputer object stores: the Multicomputer Texas experiment. In R. Connor and S. Nettles, Eds. Seventh International Workshop on Persistent Object Systems (Cape May, NJ, U.S.A., May 1996).

Blackburn, S. M.  Encoding of Arbitrary Images by Raster-Chain Coding of Cracks, In K. Ngan, Ed. IEEE Visual Signal Processing and Communications Workshop (Melbourne, Australia, Sep. 1993) pp. 85-88.

Blackburn, S. M.  Extraction of Color Region Boundaries, In M. Takagi, Ed. MVA'92, IAPR Workshop on Machine Vision Applications (Tokyo, Japan, Dec. 1992), pp. 63-66.
 

Invited Papers

Technical Reports

Blackburn, S. M., Salishev, S. I., Danilov, M., Mokhovikov, O. A., Nashatyrev A. A., Novodvorsky, P. A., Bogdanov, V. I., Li, X. F., and Ushakov, D. The Moxie JVM Experience Australian National University Technical Report TR-CS-08-01, January 2008

Blackburn, S. M. and McKinley, K. S. Transient Caches and Object Streams Australian National University Technical Report TR-CS-06-03, October 2006

Blackburn, S. M., Garner, R., Hoffman, C., Khan, A. M., McKinley, K. S., Bentzur, R., Diwan, A., Feinberg, D., Frampton, D., Guyer, S. Z., Hirzel, M., Hosking, A., Jump, M., Lee, H., Moss, J. E. B., Phansalkar, A., Stefanovic, D., VanDrunen, T., von Dincklage, D., and Wiedermann, B.  The DaCapo Benchmarks: Java Benchmarking Development and Analysis (Extended Version). Australian National University Technical Report TR-CS-06-03, September 2006

Other Publications

Blackburn, S. M. , Cavazos, J., Singhai, S., Khan, A., McKinley, K. S., Moss, J. E. B. Extended Abstract: Profile-Driven Pretenuring for Java OOPSLA'00 Companion, OOPSLA 2001, ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications, (Minneapolis, MN, USA, Oct. 15 - 19, 2000).

Blackburn, S. M. Panel discussion: Supporting Persistent Application Development Advances in Persistent Object Systems: Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Persistent Object Systems (POS9), (Lillehammer, Norway, Sept. 6 - 8, 2000).

Blackburn, S. M. Persistent Store Interface: A foundation for scalable persistent system design. PhD Thesis, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, August 1998.

Blackburn, S. M., and Stanton, R. B. Scalable Transactional Cache Coherency: Towards Scalable Persistent Systems. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Parallel Computing Workshop (Canberra, Australia, Sept. 25-26 1997), Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd.

Blackburn, S. M. The Transactional Object Cache as a Basis for Persistent System Construction In A. L. Brown, Ed. Proceedings of the Fourth IDEA Workshop (Magnetic Island, Australia, May 1997).

Blackburn, S. M. High performance transactional stores: Scalable servers = scalable stores? In A. L. Brown, Ed. Proceedings of the Fourth IDEA Workshop (Magnetic Island, Australia, May 1997).

Blackburn, S. M. Multicomputer Object Stores: The Single Store Image Approach In A. L. Brown and S. M. Blackburn, Eds. Proceedings of the Third IDEA Workshop (Lamington, Australia, July 1996).

Scheuerl, S. J. G. and Blackburn, S. M. A Recoverable Distributed Stable Store for the AP1000.  In A. L. Brown, Ed. Proceedings of the Second IDEA Workshop (Melbourne, Australia, Feb. 1996).