mRegistry: a registry representation for fault diagnosis

Bose, Jagadeesh Chandra RP and Srinivasan, SH (2006) mRegistry: a registry representation for fault diagnosis. In: Proceedings of the 2005 5th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA’05), 8-10 Sept. 2005.

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Abstract

Microsoft Windows uses the notion of registry to store all configuration information. The registry entries have associations and dependencies. For example, the paths to executables may be relative to some home directories. The registry being designed with faster access as one of the objectives does not explicitly capture these relations. In this paper, we explore a representation that captures the dependencies more explicitly using shared and unifying variables. This representation, called mRegistry exploits the tree-structured hierarchical nature of the registry, is concept-based and obtained in multiple stages. mRegistry captures intra-block, inter-block and ancestor-children dependencies (all leaf entries of a parent key in a registry put together as an entity constitute a block thereby making the block as the only child of the parent). In addition, it learns the generalized concepts of dependencies in the form of rules. We show that mRegistry has several applications: fault diagnosis, prediction, comparison, compression etc.

Item Type:	Conference Paper
Publisher:	IEEE
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Department/Centre:	Autonomous Societies / Centres > Society for Innovation and Development
Date Deposited:	08 Mar 2012 10:03
Last Modified:	11 Oct 2018 17:43
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/43731

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