Operating Systems

An operating system is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources by coordinating their allocation among applications and providing common services for program execution.

13.8K

Publications

855.7K

Citations

24.9K

Authors

2.9K

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

1.8K

Variants

Parents

Computer EngineeringComputer ScienceComputer SystemsInformation Technology

Children

Access ControlConcurrency ControlCpu SchedulingDevice DriversDevice ManagementDistributed Operating SystemsEmbedded Operating SystemsFile SystemsInput/output ManagementInterprocess Communication

Publications

13.8K

ROS: an open-source Robot Operating System

Morgan Quigley · International Conference on Robotics and Automation · 2009 · 7.2K citations

Engineering, Autonomous Systems, Computer Science +10

Xen and the art of virtualization

Paul Barham, Boris Dragovic, Keir Fraser et al. · ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review · 2003 · 5.9K citations

Computing, Computer Science, Computer Systems +16

SeqKit: A Cross-Platform and Ultrafast Toolkit for FASTA/Q File Manipulation

Wei Shen, Shuai Le, Yan Li et al. · PLoS ONE · 2016 · 3.6K citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Bioinformatics, Computer Science +6

Safeguarding cryptographic keys

G. R. Blakley · 1979 International Workshop on Managing Requirements Knowledge (MARK) · 1979 · 3.4K citations

Computing, Computer Engineering, Computer Science +17

Docker: lightweight Linux containers for consistent development and deployment

Dirk Merkel · Linux journal · 2014 · 3.3K citations

Computing, Computer Science, Computer Systems +14

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Authors

24.9K

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M. Frans Kaashoek
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
44 publications · 5.5K citations
34
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Margo Seltzer
Harvard University Press, United States
50 publications · 3K citations
32
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Mendel Rosenblum
Stanford University, United States
39 publications · 7K citations
31
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Michael L. Scott
University of Rochester, United States
47 publications · 3K citations
30
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Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau
University of Wisconsin–Madison, United States
54 publications · 3.1K citations
29
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1–5 of 24.9K

Institutions

2.9K

1–8 of 2.9K

Venues

ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
325 publications · 31.7K citations
80
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ACM Transactions on Computer Systems
TOCS · 94 publications · 17.6K citations
59
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Communications of the ACM
129 publications · 20.3K citations
55
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ACM SIGPLAN Notices
283 publications · 14.2K citations
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Computer
123 publications · 14K citations
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See also Operating Systems
Resource Management	Memory Management Storage Management Resource Allocation Process Scheduling Device Management File System Management Multitasking Paging
Core Components	Memory Management File Systems Device Drivers Inter-process Communication Hardware Abstraction Layers Null Space
Concurrency Control	Interprocess Communication Semaphores Monitors Mutual Exclusion Shared Memory Communication Communicating Sequential Processes
Security Mechanisms	Hardware Security Formal Methods Access Control Virtualization Intrusion Detection Authorization Containerization Security Audit Encryption Least Privilege Authentication File Permissions Security Patch Management
System Architectures	Virtualization Layered Architecture Microkernel Architecture Virtual Machine Migration Monolithic Kernel Architecture Hybrid Kernel Architecture Paravirtualization Modular Architecture