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D-Index
44
Citations
19611
World Ranking
7363
National Ranking
3208

Overview

Alan Demers is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States. Their academic work spans multiple subfields within engineering, contributing specifically to mechanical engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, and ocean engineering.

Their research covers a range of topics, including:

  • Mineral Processing and Grinding
  • Electrical and Bioimpedance Tomography
  • Drilling and Well Engineering

Alan Demers has published in venues recognized for research in engineering and minerals. Their recent publication record includes a paper titled "3D free fall rock size sensor", published in 2020 in the journal Minerals Engineering.

Frequent collaborators in Alan Demers's research include:

  • Maxime Bilodeau
  • D. Gouveia
  • A. Di Feo

Their work in engineering has been documented through three publications identified across their main fields of study. The focus on mineral processing and grinding corresponds with contributions to mechanical engineering, while their involvement with electrical and bioimpedance tomography intersects with electrical and electronic engineering. Ocean engineering is another indicated subfield, supported by the scope of their research topics.

Best Publications

  • MACAW: a media access protocol for wireless LAN's

    Vaduvur Bharghavan;Alan Demers;Scott Shenker;Lixia Zhang

  • Analysis and simulation of a fair queueing algorithm

    A. Demers;S. Keshav;S. Shenker

  • A scheduling model for reduced CPU energy

    F. Yao;A. Demers;S. Shenker

  • Scheduling for reduced CPU energy

    Mark Weiser;Brent Welch;Alan Demers;Scott Shenker

  • Worst-Case Performance Bounds for Simple One-Dimensional Packing Algorithms

    David S. Johnson;Alan J. Demers;Jeffrey D. Ullman;M. R. Garey

  • Flexible update propagation for weakly consistent replication

    Karin Petersen;Mike J. Spreitzer;Douglas B. Terry;Marvin M. Theimer

  • Spatial gossip and resource location protocols

    David Kempe;Jon Kleinberg;Alan Demers

  • Session guarantees for weakly consistent replicated data

    D.B. Terry;A.J. Demers;K. Petersen;M.J. Spreitzer

  • Cayuga: A General Purpose Event Monitoring System.

    Alan J. Demers;Johannes Gehrke;Biswanath Panda;Mirek Riedewald

  • The Bayou Architecture: Support for Data Sharing Among Mobile Users

    A. Demers;K. Petersen;M. Spreitzer;D. Ferry

  • Kelips: Building an efficient and stable P2P DHT through increased memory and background overhead

    Indranil Gupta;Kenneth P. Birman;Prakash Linga;Alan J. Demers

  • Incremental Context-Dependent Analysis for Language-Based Editors

    Thomas Reps;Tim Teitelbaum;Alan Demers

  • Towards expressive publish/subscribe systems

    Alan Demers;Johannes Gehrke;Mingsheng Hong;Mirek Riedewald

  • Mostly parallel garbage collection

    Hans-J. Boehm;Alan J. Demers;Scott Shenker

  • Epidemic algorithms for replicated database maintenance

    Alan Demers;Dan Greene;Carl Houser;Wes Irish

  • Cayuga: a high-performance event processing engine

    Lars Brenna;Alan Demers;Johannes Gehrke;Mingsheng Hong

  • Incremental evaluation for attribute grammars with application to syntax-directed editors

    Alan Demers;Thomas Reps;Tim Teitelbaum

  • Multi-query optimization for sensor networks

    Niki Trigoni;Yong Yao;Alan Demers;Johannes Gehrke

  • Asynchronous Large-Scale Graph Processing Made Easy

    Guozhang Wang;Wenlei Xie;Alan J. Demers;Johannes Gehrke

  • The Cougar Project: a work-in-progress report

    Alan Demers;Johannes Gehrke;Rajmohan Rajaraman;Niki Trigoni

Frequent Co-Authors

Johannes Gehrke
Johannes Gehrke Microsoft (United States)
Christoph Koch
Christoph Koch École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Niki Trigoni
Niki Trigoni University of Oxford
Rajmohan Rajaraman
Rajmohan Rajaraman Northeastern University
Jayavel Shanmugasundaram
Jayavel Shanmugasundaram Yahoo (United States)
Thomas Reps
Thomas Reps University of Wisconsin–Madison
Kenneth P. Birman
Kenneth P. Birman Cornell University
Indranil Gupta
Indranil Gupta Dalhousie University
David Gries
David Gries Cornell University
Robbert van Renesse
Robbert van Renesse Cornell University

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