An Annotated Bibliography of Interactive Program Steering

Abstract

This annotated bibliography reviews current research in dynamic and interactive program steering. In particular, we review systems-related research addressing dynamic program steering, raising issues in operating and language systems, mechanisms and algorithms for dynamic program adaptation, program monitoring and the associated data storage techniques, and the design of dynamically steerable or adaptable programs. We define program steering as the capacity to control the execution of long-running, resource-intensive programs. Dynamic program steering consists of two separable tasks: monitoring program or system state (monitoring) and then enacting program changes made in response to observed state changes (steering).