Publications


Citation Indices


Recent Publications

S. Alspaugh, A. Ganapathi, M. Hearst, R. H. Katz, "Building Blocks for Exploratory Data Analysis Tools," IDEA 2013: KDD 2013 Workshop on Interactive Data Exploration and Analytics, Chicago, IL, (August 2013).

S. Alpaugh, A. Ganapathi, M. Hearst, R. H. Katz, "Better Logging to Improve Interactive Data Analysis Tools," IDEA 2014: KDD 2014 Workshop on Interactive Data Exploration and Analytics, New York, (August 2014).

S. Alspaugh, B. Chen, J. Lin, A. Ganapathi, M. Hearst, R. H. Katz, "Analyzing Log Analysis: An Empirical Study of User Log Mining," USENIX Large Installation System Administration (LISA) Conference, Seattle, WA, (November 2014). Best Student Paper Award.

N. Yadwadkar, R. H. Katz, "Proactive Straggler Mitigation via Wrangler: Faster Jobs using Fewer Resources," Proc. ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SOCC-14), Seattle, WA, (November 2014).

N. Yadwadkar, B. Hariharan, J. Gonzalez, R. H. Katz, "Faster Jobs in Distributed Data Processing using Multi-Task Learning," SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, Vancouver, CA, (April 2015).

Award Publications

R. H. Katz, Contemporary Logic Design, Addison-Wesley/Benjamin-Cummings Publishing Co., Redwood City, CA, 1993. Winner, 1999 ASEE Frederick Emmons Terman Award for best engineering textbook written by an author under 40 years old. Used at several hundred colleges and universities. 85,000 copies sold. Second edition, with Gaetano Borriello, January 2005. 11,000 copies sold.

S. Alspaugh, B. Chen, J. Lin, A. Ganapathi, M. Hearst, R. H. Katz, "Analyzing Log Analysis: An Empirical Study of User Log Mining," USENIX Large Installation System Administration (LISA) Conference, Seattle, WA, (November 2014). Best Student Paper Award.

A. Rabkin, R. H. Katz, "Precomputing Possible Configuration Error Diagnoses," IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2011), Lawrence, KS, (November 2011). ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award.

A. Krioukov, P. Mohan, S. Alspaugh, L. Keys, D. Culler, R. H. Katz, "NapSAC: Design and Implementation of a Power-Proportional Web Server," ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, V. 41, N. 1, (January 2011), pp. 102-108. (Selected as a Best Workshop Paper).

Gunho Lee, N. Tolia, P. Ranganathan, R. H. Katz, "Topology-Aware Resource Allocation for Data-Intensive Workloads," ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, V. 41, N. 1, (January 2011), pp. 120-124. (Selected as a Best Workshop Paper)

A. Ganapathi, Y. Chen, A. Fox, R. H. Katz, D. Patterson, "Statistics-Driven Workload Modeling for the Cloud," 5th International Workshop on Self-Managing Database Systems, Long Beach, CA, (March 2010). Best Paper Award.

F. Yu, T. V. Lakshman, R. H. Katz, "Gigabit Rate Pattern-Matching using TCAM," International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), Berlin, Germany, (October 2004). Best Paper Award.

F. Yu, T. V. Lakshman, R. H. Katz, "Multi-class Classification using TCAM," Hot Interconnects 12 Symposium on High Performance Interconnects, Stanford, CA, (August 2004). Best Paper Award.

L. Subramanian, V. Roth, I. Stoica, R. H. Katz, S. Shenker, "Listen and Whisper: Security Mechanisms for BGP," USENIX/ACM Symposium on Networked System Design and Implementation (NSDI'04), San Francisco, CA, (March 2004). Best Paper Award.

Z. Mao, R. H. Katz, "A Framework for Universal Service Access using Device Ensembles," CRA Grace Murray Hopper Celebration of Women in Computer Science Conference. Vancouver, BC, (October 2002). Best Student Paper Award. (Mao selected as Hopper Young Investigator Award).

S. D. Gribble, M. Welsh, R. von Behren, E. A. Brewer, D. Culler, N. Borisov, S. Czerwinski, R. Gummadi, J. Hill, A. Joseph, R. H. Katz, Z. M. Mao, S. Ross, B. Zhao, "The Ninja Architecture for Robust Internet-Scale Systems and Services," Journal of Computer Networks, Special Issue on Pervasive Computing, V 35, N 4, (March 2001), pp. 473-497. Best Journal Paper Award for the Year 2001.

J. Kahn, R. H. Katz, K. Pister, "Next Century Challenges: Mobile Networking for 'Smart Dust'," ACM MOBICOM Conference, Seattle, WA, (August 1999). Best Next Century Challenges Paper as voted by the audience of the conference. Expanded version can be found at: J. M. Kahn, R. H. Katz, K. S. J. Pister, "Emerging Challenges: Mobile Networking for Smart Dust," Journal of Communications and Networks, V. 2, N. 3, (September 2000), pp. 188-196.

E. Amir, S. McCanne, R. H. Katz, "The Media Gateway Architecture: A Prototype for Active Services," ACM SIGCOMM'98 Conference, Vancouver, Canada, (September 1998). Best Paper Award.

E. Amir, S. McCanne, R. H. Katz, "Receiver Driven Bandwidth Allocation for Light Weight Session," ACM Multimedia '97 Conference, Seattle, WA (November 1997). Best Paper Award.

R. Ranjan, S. Qadeer, A. Mehrotra, R. H. Katz, "Benchmarking Architectures for CAD," IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD '97) Conference, Austin, TX, (October 1997). Best Paper Award.

T. Hodes, R. H. Katz, E. Servan-Schreiber, L. A. Rowe, "Composable Ad-Hoc Mobile Services for Universal Interaction," Third ACM Mobicom Conference, Budapest, Hungary, (September 1997). Best Paper Award.

H. Balakrishnan, S. Seshan, E. Amir, R. H. Katz, "Improving TCP/IP Performance over Wireless Networks," ACM Conference on Mobile Computing and Networks, Oakland, CA, (November 1995). Best Paper Award.

R. H. Katz, "Adaptation and Mobility in Wireless Information Systems," IEEE Personal Communications Magazine, V 1, N 1, (First Quarter, 1994), pp. 6-17. Selected to be among the first papers to appear in IEEE Communications Surveys, an on-line journal (March 1996). Selected as one of ten "outstanding articles" to be reprinted in IEEE Communications Magazine Special IEEE Communications Society 50th Anniversary Issue, (April 2002).

R. H. Katz, D. Gordon, J. A. Tuttle, "Storage System Metrics for Evaluating Disk Array Organizations," Proceedings of U. S. Decus Symposia, Atlanta, GA, (May 1991). Best Paper Award.

D. A. Patterson, G. A. Gibson, R. H. Katz, "The Case for Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID)," Proceedings ACM SIGMOD Conference, Chicago, IL, (May 1988). ACM SIGMOD 1998 "Test of Time Award" for the most influential paper to be published in the conference proceedings from ten years previously. ACM SIGOPS 2011 "Hall of Fame" Paper for one of the most influential systems papers at least 10 years old. 2012 Jean-Claude Laprie Award in Dependable Computing for the outstanding paper published at least 10 years ago that has significantly influenced the theory and/or practice of dependable computing.

Katz, R. H., D. A. Patterson, "A VLSI RISC Multiprocessor Workstation," Proceedings Intl. Conf. on Computer Design, Rye, NY, (October 1986). Invited Paper. Best Presentation Award.

Katz, R. H., M. Anwarrudin, E. Chang, ""A Version Server for Computer-Aided Design Data," Proceedings 23rd ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference, Las Vegas, NV, (June 1986). Best Paper Award. Best Presentation Award.

Katz, R. H., "A Database Approach for Managing VLSI Design Data," Proceedings A.C.M./I.E.E.E. 19th Design Automation Conference, Las Vegas, NV, (June 1982). Best Presentation Award.

Last updated 8 January 2014, Randy H. Katz, randy@cs.Berkeley.edu