The Apertos reflective operating system: the concept and its implementation
OOPSLA '92 conference proceedings on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications
Synthesis: an efficient implementation of fundamental operating system services
Synthesis: an efficient implementation of fundamental operating system services
Designing and implementing Choices: an object-oriented system in C++
Communications of the ACM
The impact of operating system structure on memory system performance
SOSP '93 Proceedings of the fourteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Improving IPC by kernel design
SOSP '93 Proceedings of the fourteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Efficient software-based fault isolation
SOSP '93 Proceedings of the fourteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
SOSP '95 Proceedings of the fifteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Exokernel: an operating system architecture for application-level resource management
SOSP '95 Proceedings of the fifteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Extensibility safety and performance in the SPIN operating system
SOSP '95 Proceedings of the fifteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Optimistic incremental specialization: streamlining a commercial operating system
SOSP '95 Proceedings of the fifteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Communications of the ACM
Microkernels meet recursive virtual machines
OSDI '96 Proceedings of the second USENIX symposium on Operating systems design and implementation
Making paths explicit in the Scout operating system
OSDI '96 Proceedings of the second USENIX symposium on Operating systems design and implementation
Dealing with disaster: surviving misbehaved kernel extensions
OSDI '96 Proceedings of the second USENIX symposium on Operating systems design and implementation
Safe kernel extensions without run-time checking
OSDI '96 Proceedings of the second USENIX symposium on Operating systems design and implementation
Open implementation design guidelines
ICSE '97 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Software engineering
Open implementation analysis and design
Proceedings of the 1997 symposium on Software reusability
Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT symposium on Principles of programming languages
The Flux OSKit: a substrate for kernel and language research
Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Extensible security architectures for Java
Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
The Java programming language (2nd ed.)
The Java programming language (2nd ed.)
EROS: a fast capability system
Proceedings of the seventeenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
SPIN: an extensible microkernel for application-specific operating system services
EW 6 Proceedings of the 6th workshop on ACM SIGOPS European workshop: Matching operating systems to application needs
A caching model of operating system kernel functionality
EW 6 Proceedings of the 6th workshop on ACM SIGOPS European workshop: Matching operating systems to application needs
Inside Microsoft Windows 2000
Building appliances out of components using Pebble
EW 9 Proceedings of the 9th workshop on ACM SIGOPS European workshop: beyond the PC: new challenges for the operating system
Kerner Structuring of Object-Oriented Operating Systems: The Apertos Approach
Proceedings of the First JSSST International Symposium on Object Technologies for Advanced Software
Using Meta-Interfaces to Support Secure, Dynamic System Reconfiguration
CDS '98 Proceedings of the International Conference on Configurable Distributed Systems
Scout: a communications-oriented operating system
HOTOS '95 Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS-V)
Exterminate all operating system abstractions
HOTOS '95 Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS-V)
Self-Monitoring and Self-Adapting Operating Systems
HOTOS '97 Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS-VI)
Kea - A Dynamically Extensible and Configurable Operating System Kernel
ICCDS '96 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Configurable Distributed Systems
Fast concurrent dynamic linking for an adaptive operating system
ICCDS '96 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Configurable Distributed Systems
Specialization classes: an object framework for specialization
IWOOOS '96 Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Object Orientation in Operating Systems (IWOOOS '96)
Escort: A Path-Based OS Security Architecture
Escort: A Path-Based OS Security Architecture
Efficient Cross-domain Mechanisms for Building Kernel-less Operating Systems
Efficient Cross-domain Mechanisms for Building Kernel-less Operating Systems
The pebble component-based operating system
ATEC '99 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference
Remote customization of systems code for embedded devices
Proceedings of the 4th ACM international conference on Embedded software
Using Phase Behavior in Scientific Application to Guide Linux Operating System Customization
IPDPS '05 Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'05) - Workshop 10 - Volume 11
Using model trees to characterize computer resource usage
WOSS '04 Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGSOFT workshop on Self-managed systems
Optimization aspects in network simulation
Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Aspect-oriented software development
Insights into providing dynamic adaptation of operating system policies
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
Automated reduction of the memory footprint of the Linux kernel
ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS) - Special Section LCTES'05
Remote specialization for efficient embedded operating systems
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
Controlling the performance overhead of component-based systems
SC'08 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Software composition
DADS: dynamic and automatic disk scheduling
Proceedings of the 27th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
An Analysis of Language-Level Support for Self-Adaptive Software
ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS)
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An important goal of an operating system is to make computing and communication resources available in a fair and efficient way to the applications that will run on top of it. To achieve this result, the operating system implements a number of policies for allocating resources to, and sharing resources among applications, and it implements safety mechanisms to guard against misbehaving applications. However, for most of these allocation and sharing tasks, no single optimal policy exists. Different applications may prefer different operating system policies to achieve their goals in the best possible way. A customizable or adaptable operating system is an operating system that allows for flexible modification of important system policies. Over the past decade, a wide range of approaches for achieving customizability has been explored in the operating systems research community. In this survey, an overview of these approaches, structured around a taxonomy, is presented.