Alva L. Couch - Publications

• Steven Schwartzberg and Alva Couch, "Experience in implementing a web service closure", Proc. Large Installation System Administration 2004, USENIX Assoc, San Diego, CA, November 2004. Click to read.
• Alva Couch and Yizhan Sun, "On observed reproducibility in network configuration management", Science of Computer Programming Special Issue on System Administration, 53, Elsivier, Inc, 2004, pp. 215-253.
• Alva Couch and Yizhan Sun, "On the Algebraic Structure of Convergence", Proc. 14th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management, Heidelberg, Germany, Springer-Verlag, Inc, pp. 28-40.
• A. Couch, J. Hart, E. Idhaw, and D. Kallas, "Seeking closure in an open world: a behavioral agent approach to configuration management", Proc. Large Ins tallation System Administration 2003, USENIX Assoc., San Diego, CA, Oct 29, 2003, pp. 125-148. Click to read .
• Eric Anderson, Mark Burgess, and Alva Couch, Eds, Selected Papers in Network and System Administration, Wiley, Inc, 2002.
• Alva L. Couch and Noah Daniels, "The maelstrom: network service debugging via "ineffective procedures"", Proceedings of the 2001 Large Installation System Administration Conference(LISA01), San Diego, CA, USENIX Association, Dec 3-7, 2001. Click to read .
• Yizhan Sun and Alva L. Couch, "Global analysis of dynamic library dependencies", Proceedings of the 2001 Large Installation System Administration Conference(LISA01), San Diego, CA, USENIX Association, Dec 3-7, 2001. Click to read .
• Alva L. Couch, "An Expectant Chat about Script Maturity", Proceedings of the 2000 Large Installation System Administration Conference (LISA00), New Orleans, LA, USENIX Association, Dec 6-8, 2000. Click to read .
• Michael Gilfix and Alva L. Couch, "Peep (the Network Auralizer): Monitoring Your Network With Sound" Proceedings of the 2000 Large Installation System Administration Conference (LISA00), New Orleans, LA, USENIX Association, Dec 6-8, 2000. Voted best student paper of LISA 2000. Click to read
• Alva L. Couch and Michael Gilfix, "It's Elementary, Dear Watson: Applying Logic Programming to Convergent System Management Processes", Proceedings of the 1999 Large Installation System Administration Conference (LISA99), Seattle, WA, USENIX Association, 1999. Click to read
• Alva L. Couch, "Chaos Out of Order: A Simple, Scalable File Distribution Facility for 'Intentionally Heterogeneous' Networks", Proceedings of the 1997 Large Installation System Administration Conference (LISA97), San Diego, CA, pp 169-178, USENIX Association, 1997. Click to read .
• Alva L. Couch, "SLINK: Simple, Effective Filesystem Maintenance Abstractions for Community-Based Administration", Proceedings of the 1996 Large Installation System Administration Conference (LISA96), Oct 2-5, 1996. Click to read . Voted best paper of LISA 1996.
• Alva L. Couch, "Visualizing Huge Tracefiles with XSCAL", Proceedings of the Large Installation System Administration Conference (LISA96), Oct 2-5, 1996. Click to read.
• Alva L. Couch and Greg Owen, "Maintaining Large Software Repositories with SLINK", Proceedings of the 1995 Conference on System Administration, Networking, and Security, April 23-29, 1995.
• Alva L. Couch. "Massively parallel performance analysis", invited paper in the Proceedings of the IEEE special issue on Performance Evaluation, Vol. 81, No. 8, pp. 1116-1125, August 1993.
• Alva L. Couch. "Categories and context in scalable execution visualization", invited paper in Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing special issue on Visualization, Vol. 18, pp. 195-204, June-July 1993.
• Alva L. Couch and David W. Krumme, "Portable execution traces for parallel program debugging and performance visualization", Proc. 1992 Scalable High Performance Computing Conference, Williamsburg, VA (April 1992).
• Alva L. Couch and David W. Krumme. "An integrated debugging, analysis, and visualization environment for large-scale multiprocessors". December, 1991. In informal proceedings of the Supercomputer Debugging Workshop, Albuquerque, NM.
• Alva L. Couch and David W. Krumme. "Multidimensional spreadsheets in a graphical symbolic debugger for the NCUBE." April, 1991. In Proceedings of the Sixth Distributed Memory Computing Conference, Portland, OR.
• Alva L. Couch and David W. Krumme. "Monitoring parallel executions in real time." April, 1990. In Proceedings of the Fifth Distributed Memory Computing Conference, Charleston SC.
• David W. Krumme, Alva L. Couch, Barton R. House, and Jon Cox. The Triplex Tool Set for the NCUBE Multiprocessor. Tufts University Department of Computer Science, June 27th, 1989.
• Alva L. Couch. "Problems of scale in displaying performance data for loosely coupled multiprocessors." March, 1989. In Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Hypercubes, Concurrent Computers, and Applications.
• David W. Krumme, Alva L. Couch, and George Cybenko. "Debugging support for parallel programs." 1988. In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Vector and Parallel Computing, Tromso, Norway.
• Alva L. Couch. Seecube User's Manual, Tufts University Department of Computer Science, December 1987.
• George Cybenko, David W. Krumme, K. N. Venkataraman, and A. Couch. "Heterogeneous processes on homogeneous processors." 1986. In Medium Scale Multiprocessors, SIAM, Philadelphia, PA.
• Alva Couch, Thomas Gantz, Clayton Lusk, and Claude Lechene. Automation of electron-probe microanalysis with the use of microprocessor control. In Roy H. Geiss, editor, Microbeam Analysis, pages 49--52, Microbeam Analysis Society, San Francisco Press, San Francisco CA, 1981.

Student Publications (where faculty could not be co-author)

• Michael Gilfix, "Holistic Quota Management: The Natural Path to a Better, More Efficient Quota System", Proc. LISA 2002, USENIX Assoc., 2002. Click to read.
• John Hart and Jeffrey D'Amelia, "An analysis of RPM validation drift", Proc. LISA 2002, USENIX Assoc., 2002. Click to read.