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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.
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- 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.
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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.
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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.
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Eric Anderson, Mark Burgess, and Alva Couch, Eds,
Selected Papers in Network and System Administration,
Wiley, Inc, 2002.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Voted best paper of LISA 1996.
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Alva L. Couch,
"Visualizing Huge Tracefiles with XSCAL",
Proceedings of the Large Installation
System Administration Conference (LISA96), Oct 2-5, 1996.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Alva L. Couch.
Seecube User's Manual,
Tufts University Department of Computer Science,
December 1987.
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George Cybenko, David W. Krumme, K. N. Venkataraman, and A. Couch.
"Heterogeneous processes on homogeneous processors." 1986.
In Medium Scale Multiprocessors, SIAM, Philadelphia, PA.
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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.
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- John Hart and Jeffrey D'Amelia, "An analysis of RPM validation drift",
Proc. LISA 2002, USENIX Assoc., 2002.
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