Everything about Configuration file

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Configuration fileA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: A Verification Method for a Bay Configuration File of Intelligent Substation Renovation and Expansion in Power SystemsInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Deployment Guide SeriesThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Pedestrian single file movement on stairway: Investigating the impact of stair configuration on pedestrian ascent and descent fundamental diagramCited 53 times
5. Go sideways: INI fileA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: TOMLA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Pedestrian single file movement on stairway: Investigating the impact of stair configuration on pedestrian ascent and descent fundamental diagram

  Jianyu Wang, Jian Ma, Peng Lin · 2021 · Safety Science · 53 citations

• Synthesizing configuration file specifications with association rule learning

  Mark Santolucito, Ennan Zhai, Rahul Dhodapkar · 2017 · Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages · 37 citations

• High precision, simulated cutting efficiency measurement of endodontic root canal instruments: Influence of file configuration and lubrication

  S. Yguel-Henry, H. Vannesson, J. von Stebut · 1990 · Journal of Endodontics · 28 citations

• Single-file diffusion in a box: Effect of the initial configuration

  S. J. Manzi, J. J. Torrez Herrera, V. D. Pereyra · 2012 · Physical Review E · 13 citations

• An adaptive replica configuration mechanism based on predictive file popularity and queue balance in mobile edge computing environment

  Mao-Lun Chiang, Hui-Ching Hsieh, Ting-Yi Chang · 2022 · Soft Computing · 6 citations

• preconfig: A Versatile Configuration File Generator for Varying Parameters

  Francois Nedelec · 2017 · Journal of Open Research Software · 4 citations

• METACONF: LEARNING BASED CONFIGURATION FILE DISCOVERY WITH FILE METADATA

  IBM Research China, Beijing, P.R. China, Fanjing Meng, Han Wang · 2015 · Services Transactions on Cloud Computing · 2 citations

• The Configuration File Management and Control System Construction of Smart Substation

  爱军 马 · 2017 · Smart Grid · 2 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• A Verification Method for a Bay Configuration File of Intelligent Substation Renovation and Expansion in Power Systems

  Di Lu, Shi Ru, Peiyong Yu · 2025 · Processes · 2 citations

• Descriptive Analysis and ANOVA Test with File Sending on Computer Networks Attacked with Rogue's Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)

  Hero Wintolo, Yuliani Indrianingsih, Wahyu Hamdani · 2023 · Jurnal Ilmiah Teknik Elektro Komputer dan Informatika · 1 citations

• Analyzing Configuration Dependencies of File Systems

  Tabassum Mahmud, Om Rameshwar Gatla, Duo Zhang · 2025 · ACM Transactions on Computer Systems · 0 citations

• Automation of Remote Laboratory Device Configuration File Management

  Putu Gde Qwat Bayu Liandaru, Gani Indriyanta, Joko Purwadi · 2025 · Jurnal Sains, Nalar, dan Aplikasi Teknologi Informasi · 0 citations

• Enabling Ginkgo as Numerics Backend in nekRS Employing A Loosely-Coupled Configuration File Concept

  Yu-Hsiang Mike Tsai, Mathis Bode, Hartwig Anzt · 2025 · Procedia Computer Science · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Deployment Guide SeriesIBM Redbooks · 2005
• Group policyJeremy Moskowitz · 2010
• Puppet Types And ProvidersDan Bode · 2012
• 📕Extending PuppetAlessandro Franceschi · 2014
• 📕Puppet EssentialsFelix Frank · 2014
• 📕Puppet Reporting and MonitoringMichael Duffy · 2014
• Pro PuppetSpencer Krum · 2013
• Group policyJeremy Moskowitz · 2007

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