Alva L. Couch

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 1987-2024
Publications (10 Years): 15

Top Topics

Distributed Data Management

Markup Language

Metadata Schemas

Wireless Sensor Networks

Top Venues

Environ. Model. Softw.

Int. J. Data Sci. Anal.

Publications

Hifza Khalid, Arunselvan Ramaswamy, Simone Ferlin, Alva L. Couch
Modeling Batch Tasks Using Recurrent Neural Networks in Co-Located Alibaba Workloads. ICPRAM (2024)
Hifza Khalid, Peter Portante, Alva L. Couch
Linux Configuration Tuning: Is Having a Large Dataset Enough? ICPRAM (2024)
David G. Tarboton, Daniel P. Ames, Jeffery S. Horsburgh, Jonathan L. Goodall, Alva L. Couch, Richard P. Hooper, Jerad Bales, Shaowen Wang, Anthony M. Castronova, Martin Seul, Ray Idaszak, Zhiyu Li, Pabitra Dash, Scott Black, Maurier Ramírez, Hong Yi, Chris Calloway, Clara Cogswell
HydroShare retrospective: Science and technology advances of a comprehensive data and model publication environment for the water science domain. Environ. Model. Softw. 172 (2024)
Polina Shpilker, John Freeman, Hailey McKelvie, Jill Ashey, Jay-Miguel Fonticella, Hollie Putnam, Jane Greenberg, Lenore J. Cowen, Alva L. Couch, Noah M. Daniels
MEDFORD: A human and machine readable metadata markup language. CoRR (2022)
Polina Shpilker, John Freeman, Hailey McKelvie, Jill Ashey, Jay-Miguel Fonticella, Hollie Putnam, Jane Greenberg, Lenore Cowen, Alva L. Couch, Noah M. Daniels
MEDFORD: A human- and machine-readable metadata markup language. Database J. Biol. Databases Curation 2022 (2022) (2022)
Mark Burgess, Alva L. Couch
On system rollback and totalised fields. CoRR (2021)
Polina Shpilker, John Freeman, Hailey McKelvie, Jill Ashey, Jay-Miguel Fonticella, Hollie Putnam, Jane Greenberg, Lenore Cowen, Alva L. Couch, Noah M. Daniels
MEtaData Format for Open Reef Data (MEDFORD). MTSR (2021)
Zhaokun Xue, Alva L. Couch
Correction to: A recommendation system for scientific water data. Int. J. Data Sci. Anal. 12 (3) (2021)
Zhaokun Xue, Alva L. Couch
A recommendation system for scientific water data. Int. J. Data Sci. Anal. 12 (1) (2021)
Zhaokun Xue, Alva L. Couch, David Tarboton
Map based discovery of hydrologic data in the HydroShare collaboration environment. Environ. Model. Softw. 111 (2019)
Hong Yi, Ray Idaszak, Michael J. Stealey, Chris Calloway, Alva L. Couch, David G. Tarboton
Advancing distributed data management for the HydroShare hydrologic information system. Environ. Model. Softw. 102 (2018)
Siri Fagernes, Alva L. Couch
Resource-sharing among autonomous agents - A comparative study of selfish versus altruistic behaviour. Serv. Oriented Comput. Appl. 12 (3-4) (2018)
Ruiling Gao, Alva L. Couch, Chorng Hwa Chang
An Innovative Positioning System with Unsynchronized Interferometric Modulated Signals in Wireless Sensor Networks. Int. J. Networked Distributed Comput. 5 (2) (2017)
Ruiling Gao, Wei-Tse Sun, Alva L. Couch, Chorng Hwa Chang
Stochastic radio interferometric positioning with unsynchronized modulated signals in wireless sensor networks. ICIS (2017)
Siri Fagernes, Alva L. Couch
Scalability and Information Exchange Among Autonomous Resource Management Agents. AIMS (2016)
Siri Fagernes, Alva L. Couch
On the Effects of Omitting Information Exchange between Autonomous Resource Management Agents. AIMS (2013)
Mark Burgess, Alva L. Couch
On system rollback and totalized fields: An algebraic approach to system change. J. Log. Algebraic Methods Program. 80 (8) (2011)
Siri Fagernes, Alva L. Couch
Coordination and information exchange among resource management agents. Integrated Network Management (2011)
Alva L. Couch
2012 Election for the USENIX Board of Directors. login Usenix Mag. 36 (6) (2011)
Siri Fagernes, Alva L. Couch
On Alternation and Information Sharing among Cooperating Autonomous Management Agents. UIC/ATC Workshops (2010)
Alva L. Couch
Programming with Technological Ritual and Alchemy. login Usenix Mag. 35 (3) (2010)
Siri Fagernes, Alva L. Couch
On the Combined Behavior of Autonomous Resource Management Agents. AIMS (2010)
Alva L. Couch
From Tasks to Assurances: Redefining System Administration. login Usenix Mag. 35 (2) (2010)
Alva L. Couch
Configuration Management Phenomenology. login Usenix Mag. 35 (1) (2010)
Alva L. Couch, Marc Chiarini
Combining Learned and Highly-Reactive Management. MACE (2009)
Alva L. Couch, Marc Chiarini
Dynamics of Resource Closure Operators. AIMS (2009)
Alva L. Couch, Mark Burgess, Marc Chiarini
Management without (Detailed) Models. ATC (2009)
Alva L. Couch
Is It Easy Being Green? login Usenix Mag. 34 (3) (2009)
Alva L. Couch
From x=1 to (setf x 1): What Does ConfigurationManagement Mean? login Usenix Mag. 33 (1) (2008)
Alva L. Couch
"Standard Deviations" of the Average SystemAdministrator. login Usenix Mag. 33 (4) (2008)
Marc Chiarini, Alva L. Couch
Dynamic Dependencies and Performance Improvement. LISA (2008)
Alva L. Couch
System Administration Thermodynamics. login Usenix Mag. 33 (5) (2008)
Ning Wu, Alva L. Couch
Statistical Behaviors of Distributed Transition Planning. AIMS (2008)
Alva L. Couch, Marc Chiarini
A Theory of Closure Operators. AIMS (2008)
Alva L. Couch, Marc Chiarini
Dynamic Consistency Analysis for Convergent Operators. AIMS (2008)
Alva L. Couch
Should the Root Prompt Require a Road Test? LISA (2007)
Jane-Ellen Long, Alva L. Couch
SAGE Update. login Usenix Mag. 32 (2) (2007)
Alva L. Couch
Should the Root Prompt Require a Road Test? login Usenix Mag. 32 (4) (2007)
Alva L. Couch, Hengky Susanto, Marc Chiarini
Modeling Change Without Breaking Promises. AIMS (2007)
Alva L. Couch, Hengky Susanto, Marc Chiarini
Estimating Reliability of Conditional Promises. AIMS (2007)
Mark Burgess, Alva L. Couch
Modeling Next Generation Configuration Management Tools. LISA (2006)
Ning Wu, Alva L. Couch
Experience Implementing an IP Address Closure. LISA (2006)
Alva L. Couch, Ning Wu, Hengky Susanto
Toward a Cost Model for System Administration (Awarded Best Paper!). LISA (2005)
Alva L. Couch, Yizhan Sun
On observed reproducibility in network configuration management. Sci. Comput. Program. 53 (2) (2004)
Alva L. Couch
What Is This Thing Called System Configuration? LISA (2004)
Steven Schwartzberg, Alva L. Couch
Experience in Implementing an HTTP Service Closure. LISA (2004)
Alva L. Couch, John Hart, Elizabeth G. Idhaw, Dominic Kallas
Seeking Closure in an Open World: A Behavioral Agent Approach to Configuration Management. LISA (2003)
Alva L. Couch, Yizhan Sun
On the Algebraic Structure of Convergence. DSOM (2003)
Leonidas Deligiannidis, Alva L. Couch, Robert J. K. Jacob
Applications: A Case Study. International Conference on Internet Computing (2002)
Yizhan Sun, Alva L. Couch
Global Impact Analysis of Dynamic Library Dependencies. LISA (2001)
Alva L. Couch, Noah Daniels
The Maelstrom: Network Service Debugging via "Ineffective Procedures". LISA (2001)
Alva L. Couch
An Expectant Chat About Script Maturity. LISA (2000)
Michael Gilfix, Alva L. Couch
Peep (The Network Auralizer): Monitoring Your Network with Sound. LISA (2000)
Alva L. Couch, Michael Gilfix
It's Elementary, Dear Watson: Applying Logic Programming To Convergent System Management Processes. LISA (1999)
Alva L. Couch
Chaos Out of Order: A Simple, Scalable File Distribution Facility For 'Intentionally Heterogeneous' Networks. LISA (1997)
Alva L. Couch
SLINK: Simple, Effective Filesystem Maintenance Abstractions for Community-Based Administration. LISA (1996)
Alva L. Couch
Visualizing Huge Tracefiles with Xscal. LISA (1996)
Alva L. Couch
Categories and Context in Scalable Execution Visualization. J. Parallel Distributed Comput. 18 (2) (1993)
Alva L. Couch
Locating performance problems in massively parallel executions. Proc. IEEE 81 (8) (1993)
David W. Krumme, Alva L. Couch
Integrated debugging and performance monitoring for parallel programs. COMPSAC (1991)
David W. Krumme, George Cybenko, Alva L. Couch
Instrumentation for distributed computing systems. FJCC (1987)