The focus of the research described in this paper is on the nature of the event information provided in commonly available computer and other logs and the extent to which it is po...
Analogy-based hypothesis generation is a promising technique for knowledge discovery. However, some hypotheses generated are nonsensical. This paper describes a two-phased method ...
Checkpointing virtual machines shows potential for allowing a user to download, install, and initialize a complete software environment by selecting a web page link. Starting with...
We consider the utility of two key properties of network-embedded storage: programmability and network-awareness. We describe two extensive applications, whose performance and fun...
A serious problem in learning probabilistic models is the presence of hidden variables. These variables are not observed, yet interact with several of the observed variables. Dete...