Systems & networking
Researching next-generation systems and networks that power reliable, scalable, and efficient computing.
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Utilizing Social Media for Disaster Relief
Effective coordination of post-disaster relief operations depends critically on the availability of reliable situational information, as well as on citizen participation in the operations. The advent of online social media (e.g., Twitter, Facebook) and the…
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Near realtime service analytics
Helios is an online distributed indexing system for service analytics. For clusters that produce massive volumes (think PB scale) of log data, Helios constructs distributed indexes on the data and supports near real-time querying. Helios…
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Cluster Resource Management
We are focused on building a scale-out, predictable, resource management substrate for big-data workloads. To this end, we started with providing predictable allocation SLOs for jobs that have completion time requirements, and then focused on…
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Network Pricing: How to Induce Optimal Flows Under Strategic Link Operators
Network pricing games provide a framework for modeling real-world settings with two types of strategic agents: users of the network and owners (operators) of the network. Owners of the network post a price for usage…
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Computational Pragmatics
Defining pragmatics has not been easy. We discuss the major themes that have been dealt with in the field: The macro perspective: Speech Act Theory The micro perspective: Cooperative Principles and Implicature Merging the macro…
