Ningfang Mi

Ningfang Mi, Alma Riska, Qi Zhang, Evgenia Smirni, and Eric Riedel, "Efficient Management of Idleness in Systems",  ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS), Vol. 5, No. 2, Article 4, June 2009.

Qi Zhang, Ludmila Cherkasova, Ningfang Mi, and Evgenia Smirni, "A Regression-Based Analytic Model for Capacity Planning of Multi-Tier Applications",  in Journal of Cluster Computing, Vol 11, No. 3, pp. 197-211, 2008.

Qi Zhang, Ningfang Mi, Alma Riska, and Evgenia Smirni, ''Performance-Guided Load (Un)Balancing Under Autocorrelated Flows'', in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 652-665, 2008.

Ningfang Mi, Qi Zhang, Alma Riska, Evgenia  Smirni, and Eric Riedel, "Performance Impacts of Autocorrelated Flows in Multi-tiered Systems",  in Performance Evaluation, Vol 64, No. 9-12 pp. 1082-1101, Oct. 2007. Also presented at the 26th International Symposium on Computer Performance, Modeling, Measurements, and Evaluation (Performance'07), Cologne, Germany, 2007. Acceptance Rate: 20%.

Ovidiu Daescu, Ningfang Mi, Chan-Su Shin, and Alexander Wolff,  "Farthest-point Queries with Geometric and Combinatorial Constraints", in Computational Geometry: Theory & Applications, Vol 33, No. 3, pp.174-185, 2006.

Danny Z. Chen, Ovidiu Daescu, John Hershberger, Peter M. Kogge, Ningfang Mi,  and Jack Snoeyink, "Polygonal Path Approximation with Angle Constraints", in Computational Geometry: Theory & Applications, Vol. 32, No. 3, pp. 173-187, 2005.

Ovidiu Daescu, and Ningfang Mi, "Polygonal Path Approximation: a Query Based Approach", in Computational Geometry: Theory & Applications, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 41-58, 2005.

Alma Riska, Ningfang Mi, Giuliano Casale, and Evgenia Smirni "Feasibility Regions: Exploiting Trade-offs between Power and Performance in Disk Drives", to appear, in the Proceedings of second Workshop on Hot Topics in Measurement & Modeling of Computer Systems (HotMetrics'09), Seattle, WA, 2009.

Ningfang Mi, Alma Riska, Xin Li, Evgenia Smirni, and Erik Riedel, "Restraint Utilization of Idleness for Transparent Scheduling of Background Tasks", in the Proceedings of the 2009 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems (SIGMETRICS'09), pp. 205-216, Seattle, WA, 2009. Acceptance Rate: 15%.

Ningfang Mi, Giuliano Casale, Ludmila Cherkasova, and Evgenia Smirni, "Burstiness in Multi-Tier Applications: Symptoms, Causes, and New Models", in ACM/IFIP/USENIX 9th International Middleware Conference (Middleware'08),  pp. 265-286, Leuven, Belgium, 2008. Acceptance Rate: 18%. (Best Paper Award)

Ningfang Mi, Giuliano Casale, and Evgenia Smirni, "Scheduling for Performance and Availability in Systems with Temporal Dependent Workloads", in the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN'08),  pp. 336-345, Anchorage, AK, 2008. Acceptance Rate: 25%.

Ningfang Mi, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni, and Erik Riedel, "Enhancing Data Availability through Background Activities", in the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN'08),  pp. 492-501, Anchorage, AK, 2008. Acceptance Rate: 25%.

Ludmila Cherkasova, Kivanc Ozonat, Ningfang Mi, Julie Symons, and Evgenia Smirni, "Anomaly? Application Change? or Workload Change?", in the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN'08),  pp. 452-461, Anchorage, AK, 2008. Acceptance Rate: 25%.

Giuliano Casale, Ningfang Mi, and Evgenia Smirni, "Bound Analysis of Closed Queueing Networks with Workload Burstiness", in the Proceedings of the 2008 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems (SIGMETRICS'08), pp. 13-24, Annapolis, Maryland,   2008. Acceptance Rate: 18%.

Giuliano Casale, Ningfang Mi, Ludmila Cherkasova, and Evgenia Smirni, "How to Parameterize Models with Bursty Workloads", in the Proceedings of First Workshop on Hot Topics in Measurement & Modeling of Computer Systems (HotMetrics'08), Annapolis, Maryland,  2008. Acceptance Rate: 27%.

Ningfang Mi, Ludmila Cherkasova, Kivanc Ozonat, Julie Symons, and Evgenia Smirni, "Analysis of Application Performance and Its Change via Representative Application Signatures", accepted in IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS'08), Salvador, Brazil, pp. 216-223, 2008. Acceptance Rate: 27%.

Ningfang Mi, Qi Zhang, Alma Riska, and Evgenia Smirni, "Load Balancing for Performance Differentiation in Dual-Priority Clustered Servers", in the 3rd International Conference on the Quantitative Evaluation of Systems (QEST'06), Riverside, CA, pp. 385-394, 2006.

Qi Zhang, Ningfang Mi, Alma Riska, and Evgenia Smirni, "Load Unbalancing to Improve Performance under Autocorrelated Traffic", in the 26th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'06), Lisboa, Portugal, pp. 20, Jul. 2006. Acceptance Rate: 14%.

Qi Zhang, Alma Riska, Ningfang Mi, Erik Riedel, and Evgenia Smirni, "Evaluating the Performability of Systems with Background Jobs", in the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN'06), Philadelphia, PA, pp. 495-504, 2006. Acceptance Rate: 18%.

Ovidiu Daescu, Ningfang Mi, Chan-Su Shin, and Alexander Wolff,  "Farthest-Point Queries with Geometric and Combinatorial Constraints", in Proceedings of the Japan Conference on Discrete and Computational Geometry (JCDCG'04), pp. 62-75, 2004.

Ovidiu Daescu, and Ningfang Mi, "Polygonal Path Approximation: a Query Based Approach", in Proceedings of the 14th Annual International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC'03), pp. 36-46, 2003.

Ningfang Mi, Alma Riska, Qi Zhang,  Evgenia Smirni, and Eric Riedel, "Efficient management of idleness in systems", in the Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems (SIGMETRICS'07), San Diego, CA, 2007. (abstracted)