Archive for the ‘Memiotics (Memory Semiotics)’ Category
Sunday, September 23rd, 2012
Learn from this Webinar about phenomenological, hermeneutical and analytical approaches to software diagnostics and its knowledge, foundations, norms, theories, logic, methodology, language, ontology, nature and truth. This seminar is hosted by Software Diagnostics Services.

Title: Introduction to Philosophy of Software Diagnostics
Date: 17th of December, 2012
Time: 19:00 GMT
Duration: 60 minutes
Space is limited.
Reserve your Webinar seat now at:
https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/872846486
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Posted in Announcements, Computer Science, Core Dump Analysis, Crash Dump Analysis, Crash Dump Patterns, Debugging, Debugging Methodology, Education and Research, Escalation Engineering, First Fault Software Diagnostics, Hermeneutics of Memory Dumps and Traces, Logic, Memiotics (Memory Semiotics), Memoretics, Memory Dump Analysis Methodology, Performance Monitoring, Phenomenology of Software Diagnostics, Philosophy, Philosophy of Software Diagnostics, Root Cause Analysis, Science of Memory Dump Analysis, Science of Software Tracing, Semiotics, Software Behavior Patterns, Software Diagnostics, Software Diagnostics Institute, Software Diagnostics Pattern Language, Software Diagnostics Patterns, Software Diagnostics Services, Software and Philosophy, Systems Theory, Systems Thinking, Testing, The Way of Philip Marlowe, Trace Analysis Patterns, Unified Software Diagnostics, Webinars | No Comments »
Sunday, April 15th, 2012
After 4 years in print this bestselling title needs an update to address minor changes, include extra examples and reference additional research published in Volumes 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6.
- Title: Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 1
- Author: Dmitry Vostokov
- Publisher: OpenTask (Summer 2012)
- Language: English
- Product Dimensions: 22.86 x 15.24
- Paperback: 800 pages
- ISBN-13: 978-1-908043-35-1
- Hardcover: 800 pages
- ISBN-13: 978-1-908043-36-8
The cover for both paperback and hardcover titles will also have a matte finish. We used A Memory Window artwork for the back cover.

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Posted in Aesthetics of Memory Dumps, Announcements, AntiPatterns, Art, Assembly Language, Best Practices, Books, Bugchecks Depicted, C and C++, Complete Memory Dump Analysis, Computer Science, Crash Dump Analysis, Crash Dump Patterns, Crash Dumps for Dummies, Debugging, Debugging Methodology, Dr. Watson, Escalation Engineering, Fun with Crash Dumps, GDB for WinDbg Users, Hardware, Images of Computer Memory, Kernel Development, Mathematics of Debugging, Memiotics (Memory Semiotics), Memoretics, Memory Dump Analysis Methodology, Memory Space Art, Memory Space Music, Memory Visualization, Minidump Analysis, Multithreading, Pattern-Driven Debugging, Pattern-Driven Software Support, Publishing, Reference, Root Cause Analysis, Science of Memory Dump Analysis, Software Architecture, Software Behavior DNA, Software Behavior Patterns, Software Behavioral Genome, Software Diagnostics, Software Engineering, Software Technical Support, Stack Trace Collection, Testing, Tools, Troubleshooting Methodology, Vista, WinDbg Scripts, WinDbg Tips and Tricks, WinDbg for GDB Users, Windows 7, Windows Data Structures, Windows Server 2008, Windows System Administration, x64 Windows | No Comments »
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
Whereas Marx considered commodities as having surplus values and Baudrillard considered them as semiotic signs, philosophy of Memoidealism considers them as containing memories and linked by memories. People use commodities to evoke memories (either personal or collective) and use them for further communication. You can find such examples everywhere and the use of memories (including superstructure and means of production memories used to store the personal ones) has increased dramatically. We call this analysis XRAM to distinguish from original Marx analysis and its derivatives and extensions. In the future memories will also have exchange value and replace money.
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Posted in Anthropology, Economics, Memiotics (Memory Semiotics), Memoidealism, Philosophy, Social Sciences, XRAM Analysis | 1 Comment »
Monday, December 12th, 2011
More than 4 years passed since I provided a longer structuralist definition. Recently I came to recognize a pattern-driven iterative and incremental nature of memory and software trace analysis and post-construction software problem solving in general and therefore a one sentence definition became necessary:
“Recognition and interpretation of patterns of software behavior”
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Posted in Announcements, Crash Dump Analysis, Crash Dump Patterns, Malware Analysis, Malware Patterns, Memiotics (Memory Semiotics), Memoretics, Memory Analysis Forensics and Intelligence, Science of Memory Dump Analysis, Science of Software Tracing, Software Behavior Patterns, Software Narratology, Software Problem Solving, Software Trace Analysis, Structural Memory Patterns, Structural Trace Patterns, Trace Analysis Patterns, Victimware | No Comments »
Wednesday, September 21st, 2011
Memoretics promotes pattern-driven memory dump and software trace analysis which has many uses but not limited to:
- Software and site reliability
- Software Debugging
- QA and Software Testing
- Computer Security
- Software Troubleshooting
- Malware Research and Analysis
- Tools as a Service (TaaS)
- Supportability
- Software Diagnostics

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Posted in Cloud Memory Dump Analysis, Computer Forensics, Crash Dump Analysis, Crash Dump Patterns, DebugWare Patterns, Debugging, Debugging Trends, Escalation Engineering, Malware Analysis, Malware Patterns, Memiotics (Memory Semiotics), Memoretics, Memory Analysis Forensics and Intelligence, Metadefect Template Library, Metamalware, Pattern Models, Pattern Prediction, Reverse Engineering, Root Cause Analysis, Science of Memory Dump Analysis, Science of Software Tracing, Security, Software Behavior DNA, Software Behavior Patterns, Software Behavioral Genome, Software Defect Construction, Software Engineering, Software Generalist, Software Narratology, Software Support Patterns, Software Technical Support, Software Trace Analysis, Software Troubleshooting Patterns, Structural Memory Patterns, Structural Trace Patterns, Systems Thinking, Testing, Tools, Trace Analysis Patterns, Troubleshooting Methodology, UI Problem Analysis Patterns, Unified Debugging Patterns, Victimware, Windows System Administration, Workaround Patterns | No Comments »
Wednesday, September 21st, 2011
Memoretics as a science of memory snapshots borrows many ideas from the following disciplines (the list is not exhaustive):
- Troubleshooting and Debugging
- Intelligence Analysis
- Critical Thinking
- Forensics
- Linguistics
- Archaeology
- Psychoanalysis
- History
- Mathematics: Sets and Categories
- Literary Criticism and Narratology
It also contributes many ideas back. The following diagram depicts such an interaction:

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Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011
As the number of crash dump analysis pattern icons approaches 100 with software trace analysis patterns (and other troubleshooting and debugging pattern categories) on the horizon with every icon as a symbol signifying certain computer memory signs (computer memory semiotics is called memiotics, as a part of memoretics discipline) I found it necessary to name the new form of art. I decided upon the name Memioart. If you have a better name for it please let me know. I also plan to write commentaries on memioicons (semioicons) to explain elements on pattern icons and reasons why I chose them.
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Posted in Announcements, Art, Memioart, Memiotics (Memory Semiotics), New Words, Pattern Icons | No Comments »
Sunday, April 17th, 2011
I’m pleased to announce that MDAA, Volume 5 is available in PDF format:
www.dumpanalysis.org/Memory+Dump+Analysis+Anthology+Volume+5
It features:
- 25 new crash dump analysis patterns
- 11 new pattern interaction case studies (including software tracing)
- 16 new trace analysis patterns
- 7 structural memory patterns
- 4 modeling case studies for memory dump analysis patterns
- Discussion of 3 common analysis mistakes
- Malware analysis case study
- Computer independent architecture of crash analysis report service
- Expanded coverage of software narratology
- Metaphysical and theological implications of memory dump worldview
- More pictures of memory space and physicalist art
- Classification of memory visualization tools
- Memory visualization case studies
- Close reading of the stories of Sherlock Holmes: Dr. Watson’s observational patterns
- Fully cross-referenced with Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, and Volume 4
Its table of contents is available here:
www.dumpanalysis.org/MDAA/MDA-Anthology-V5-TOC.pdf
Paperback and hardcover versions should be available in a week or two. I also started working on Volume 6 that should be available in November-December.
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Wednesday, March 9th, 2011
Memiosphere is the sphere of operating memory processes where memory signs (studied by memiotics) are created, manipulated and destroyed. This new word was inspired by the similar notion of semiosphere. We can also metaphorically analyze and remember it as mem(ory) + I/O + sphere.
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Posted in Memiotics (Memory Semiotics), Memoidealism, Memoretics, Memory Systems Language, New Words | No Comments »
Saturday, January 1st, 2011
With the new year starts the new initiative to integrate traditional multidisciplinary debugging approaches and methodologies with multiplatform pattern-driven software problem solving, unified debugging patterns, best practices in memory dump analysis and software tracing, computer security, economics, and the new emerging trends I’m going to write about during this year.
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Friday, December 17th, 2010
As the new decade is approaching (2011-2020) we would like to make a few previews and predictions:
- Increased complexity of software will bring more methods from biological, social sciences and humanities in addition to existing methods of automated debugging and computer science techniques
- Focus on first fault software problem solving (when aspect)
- Focus on pattern-driven software problem solving (how aspect)
- Fusion of debugging and malware analysis into a unified structural and behavioral pattern framework
- Visual debugging, memory and software trace visualization techniques
- Software maintenance certification
- Focus on domain-driven troubleshooting and debugging tools as a service (debugware TaaS)
- Focus on security issues related to memory dumps and software traces
- New scripting languages and programming language extensions for debugging
- The maturation of the science of memory snapshots and software traces (memoretics)
Imagining is not not limited to the above and more to come and explain in the forthcoming parts.
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Tuesday, November 30th, 2010
MAaaS includes 2 complementary DA+TA services:
1. Dump Analysis as a Service (DAaaS)
2. Trace Analysis as a Service (TAaaS)
Memory Dump Analysis Services is the first organization to provide such a service at an audit and certification levels.
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Posted in Certification, Complete Memory Dump Analysis, Crash Analysis Report Environment (CARE), Crash Dump Analysis, Crash Dump Patterns, Debugging, Dublin School of Security, Escalation Engineering, Malware Analysis, Malware Patterns, Memiotics (Memory Semiotics), Memoretics, Memory Analysis Forensics and Intelligence, Memory Analysis Report System, Memory Dump Analysis Services, Minidump Analysis, Security, Software Behavior Patterns, Software Technical Support, Software Trace Analysis, Software Trace Reading, Structural Memory Patterns, Structural Trace Patterns, Tools, Trace Analysis Patterns, Windows System Administration | No Comments »
Friday, November 12th, 2010
Five volumes of cross-disciplinary Anthology (dubbed by the author “The Summa Memorianica”) lay the foundation of the scientific discipline of Memoretics (study of computer memory snapshots and their evolution in time) that is also called Memory Dump and Software Trace Analysis.ca
The 5th volume contains revised, edited, cross-referenced, and thematically organized selected DumpAnalysis.org blog posts about crash dump, software trace analysis and debugging written in February 2010 - October 2010 for software engineers developing and maintaining products on Windows platforms, quality assurance engineers testing software on Windows platforms, technical support and escalation engineers dealing with complex software issues, and security researchers, malware analysts and reverse engineers. The fifth volume features:
- 25 new crash dump analysis patterns
- 11 new pattern interaction case studies (including software tracing)
- 16 new trace analysis patterns
- 7 structural memory patterns
- 4 modeling case studies for memory dump analysis patterns
- Discussion of 3 common analysis mistakes
- Malware analysis case study
- Computer independent architecture of crash analysis report service
- Expanded coverage of software narratology
- Metaphysical and theological implications of memory dump worldview
- More pictures of memory space and physicalist art
- Classification of memory visualization tools
- Memory visualization case studies
- Close reading of the stories of Sherlock Holmes: Dr. Watson’s observational patterns
- Fully cross-referenced with Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, and Volume 4
Product information:
- Title: Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 5
- Author: Dmitry Vostokov
- Language: English
- Product Dimensions: 22.86 x 15.24
- Paperback: 400 pages
- Publisher: Opentask (10 December 2010)
- ISBN-13: 978-1-906717-96-4
- Hardcover: 400 pages
- Publisher: Opentask (10 December 2010)
- ISBN-13: 978-1-906717-97-1

Back cover features memory space art image Hot Computation: Memory on Fire.
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Saturday, November 6th, 2010
I’m pleased to announce that MDAA, Volume 4 is available in PDF format:
www.dumpanalysis.org/Memory+Dump+Analysis+Anthology+Volume+4
It features:
- 15 new crash dump analysis patterns
- 13 new pattern interaction case studies
- 10 new trace analysis patterns
- 6 new Debugware patterns and case study
- Workaround patterns
- Updated checklist
- Fully cross-referenced with Volume 1, Volume 2 and Volume 3
- Memory visualization tutorials
- Memory space art
Its table of contents is available here:
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/MDAA/MDA-Anthology-V4-TOC.pdf
Paperback and hardcover versions should be available in a week or two. I also started working on Volume 5 that should be available in December.
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Friday, October 22nd, 2010
I detour for MARS expedition. You may also call it Memory Analysis Report System as malware analysis is always exploration of memory (in general). Why is this sudden change of course? After reading Gilles Deleuze I want to broaden the concept of “malware” and give it new orientation and direction of thinking. Beside that I also want new challenges after many years of research in pattern-driven memory dump and software trace analysis of abnormal software behaviour.
You may have also noticed small restructuring (rebranding) of this blog and DumpAnalysis.org headers.
See you there
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Posted in Announcements, Archaeology of Computer Memory, Assembly Language, Computer Science, Education and Research, General Memory Analysis, Malware Analysis, Malware Patterns, Memiotics (Memory Semiotics), Memoretics, Memory Analysis Forensics and Intelligence, Memory Analysis Report System, Memory Dump Analysis Services, New Acronyms, Philosophy, Science of Memory Dump Analysis, Science of Software Tracing, Security, Software Trace Analysis, Software Victimology, Structural Memory Patterns, Systems Thinking, Tools, Trace Analysis Patterns, Victimware, Windows System Administration | No Comments »
Wednesday, October 20th, 2010
As a practical example of applying behavioral and structural pattern analysis of computer memory and traces OpenTask plans to publish the following title next year:
- Title: Malware Patterns: Structure and Behavior of Computer Adware, Crimeware, Rootkits, Scareware, Spyware, Trojans, Viruses, Victimware and Worms
- Author: Dmitry Vostokov
- Paperback: 1200 pages
- Publisher: OpenTask (October 2011)
- ISBN-13: 978-1-908043-01-6
The inclusion of victimware is necessary because of the effects of defective malware.
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Posted in Announcements, Books, Crash Dump Analysis, Crash Dump Patterns, Malware Analysis, Malware Patterns, Memiotics (Memory Semiotics), Memoretics, Memory Analysis Forensics and Intelligence, Publishing, Science of Memory Dump Analysis, Science of Software Tracing, Security, Software Behavior Patterns, Software Defect Construction, Software Trace Analysis, Software Victimology, Structural Memory Patterns, Trace Analysis Patterns, Victimware | No Comments »
Monday, September 27th, 2010
General Memory Analysis is another name for Memoretics, a discipline that studies memory snapshots including their similarities and differences on different system platforms such as Windows, Linus, Mac OS X, embedded and mobile systems, historical architectures, etc. The analysis of memory helps solve problems in various domains such as software troubleshooting and debugging, computer forensic analysis, etc.

The current focus of interdisciplinary research is to build a unified memory pattern language that covers both behavioral and structural patterns and also to study the possibility of building memory systems from below, not from requirements -> architecture -> design -> implementation -> compilation -> linking -> loading -> execution but from directly modeling and assembling memory systems using memory patterns.
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Posted in Announcements, Crash Dump Analysis, Debugging, General Memory Analysis, Memiotics (Memory Semiotics), Memoretics, Memory Analysis Forensics and Intelligence, Memory Systems Language, Security, Software Behavior Patterns, Software Technical Support, Software Trace Analysis, Structural Memory Patterns, Trace Analysis Patterns | No Comments »
Friday, September 24th, 2010
Now it’s time to divide memory analysis patterns discerned so far as mostly abnormal software behavior memory dump and software trace patterns into behavioral and structural catalogues. The goal is to account for normal system-independent structural entities and relationships visible in memory like modules, threads, processes and so on.
The first pattern (and also a super-pattern) we discuss in this part is called Memory Snapshot. It is further subdivided into Structured Memory Snapshot and BLOB Memory Snapshot. Structured sub-pattern includes:
- Contiguous memory dump files with artificially generated headers (for example, physical or process virtual space memory dump)
- Software trace messages with imposed internal structure
BLOB sub-pattern variety includes address range snapshots without any externally imposed structure, for example, saved by .writemem WinDbg command or ReadProcessMemory API and contiguous buffer and raw memory dumps saved by various memory acquisition tools.
Behavioral patterns that relate to Memory Snapshot pattern are:
I strive initially to publish at least one such pattern every day to fill the gap of normal patterns in memory analysis and later add more multi-platform details and examples from other platforms like Linux, Mac OS X, embedded and selected important historical architectures.
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Posted in Crash Dump Analysis, Crash Dump Patterns, Debugging, General Memory Analysis, Memiotics (Memory Semiotics), Memoretics, Memory Analysis Forensics and Intelligence, Memory Systems Language, Science of Memory Dump Analysis, Science of Software Tracing, Security, Software Behavior Patterns, Software Trace Analysis, Structural Memory Patterns | 1 Comment »
Monday, May 10th, 2010
My drive to generalization led me to place an adornment on the portal to highlight the fact that memory and software trace analysis patterns are under an umbrella of general software behaviour patterns:

http://www.dumpanalysis.org/Software-Behavior-Patterns-Headline
In the forthcoming post series I plan to write about similarities between these two branches and also provide pattern examples from non-Windows platforms. All this material will provide the foundation for the forthcoming book Software Behavior: A Guide to Systematic Analysis (ISBN: 978-1906717162).
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Posted in Announcements, Computer Science, Crash Dump Analysis, Crash Dump Patterns, Debugging, Escalation Engineering, Memiotics (Memory Semiotics), Memoretics, Science of Memory Dump Analysis, Science of Software Tracing, Software Behavior Patterns, Software Engineering, Software Maintenance Institute, Software Technical Support, Software Trace Analysis, Software Troubleshooting Patterns, Trace Analysis Patterns | No Comments »
Sunday, April 18th, 2010
OpenTask to offer first 3 volumes of Memory Dump Analysis Anthology in one set:

The set is available exclusively from OpenTask e-Commerce web site starting from June. Individual volumes are also available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other bookstores worldwide.
Product information:
- Title: Modern Memory Dump and Software Trace Analysis: Volumes 1-3
- Author: Dmitry Vostokov
- Language: English
- Product Dimensions: 22.86 x 15.24
- Paperback: 1600 pages
- Publisher: Opentask (31 May 2010)
- ISBN-13: 978-1-906717-99-5
Information about individual volumes:
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