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Overview

Jennifer L. Welch is affiliated with Texas A&M University in the United States and works primarily in the field of computer science. Their research spans multiple subfields including computer networks and communications, hardware and architecture, oceanography, aerospace engineering, and environmental engineering. Within these areas, their work addresses a variety of specialized topics.

The scientist's main research topics include distributed systems and fault tolerance, parallel computing and optimization techniques, geophysics and gravity measurements, GNSS positioning and interference, soil moisture and remote sensing, vector-borne infectious diseases, and rabies epidemiology and control.

Jennifer L. Welch has published extensively with a focus on distributed systems, with 19 publications in computer science-related venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Preventive Veterinary Medicine
  • Lecture notes in computer science

Among their recent publications are papers that reflect a diverse interdisciplinary approach, such as:

  • Unveiling the Hidden Threat: Drought-Induced Inelastic Subsidence in Expansive Soils, 2024, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Coxiella burnetii seroprevalence in domestic goat does in the United States: Prevalence, distribution, and associated risk factors, 2024, Preventive Veterinary Medicine
  • The Synchronization Power of Auditable Registers, 2024, Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)
  • Store-Collect in the Presence of Continuous Churn with Application to Snapshots and Lattice Agreement, 2020, Lecture notes in computer science
  • Impossibility of Strongly-Linearizable Message-Passing Objects via Simulation by Single-Writer Registers, 2021, Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)

Frequent collaborators include Hagit Attiya, Constantin Enea, Colette Johnen, Adnane Khattabi, and Alessia Milani. Collaboration with these researchers highlights partnerships often involved in distributed systems and related areas.

Best Publications

  • Distributed Computing: Fundamentals, Simulations and Advanced Topics

    Jennifer L. Welch;Hagit Attiya

  • Leader election algorithms for mobile ad hoc networks

    Navneet Malpani;Jennifer L. Welch;Nitin Vaidya

  • Sequential consistency versus linearizability

    Hagit Attiya;Jennifer L. Welch

  • A new fault-tolerant algorithm for clock synchronization

    Jennifer Lindelius Welch;Nancy Lynch

  • Efficient distributed recovery using message logging

    A. P. Sistla;J. L. Welch

  • Random walk for self-stabilizing group communication in ad hoc networks

    S. Dolev;E. Schiller;J.L. Welch

  • A Mutual Exclusion Algorithm for Ad Hoc Mobile Networks

    Jennifer E. Walter;Jennifer L. Welch;Nitin H. Vaidya

  • Self-stabilizing clock synchronization in the presence of Byzantine faults

    Shlomi Dolev;Jennifer L. Welch

  • Finding available parking spaces made easy

    Andreas Klappenecker;Hyunyoung Lee;Jennifer L. Welch

  • GeoQuorums: Implementing Atomic Memory in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

    Shlomi Dolev;Seth Gilbert;Nancy A. Lynch;Alexander A. Shvartsman;Alexander A. Shvartsman

  • GeoQuorums: implementing atomic memory in mobile ad hoc networks

    Shlomi Dolev;Seth Gilbert;Nancy A. Lynch;Alexander A. Shvartsman

  • Distributed reconfiguration of metamorphic robot chains

    Jennifer E. Walter;Jennifer L. Welch;Nancy M. Amato

  • An overview of clock synchronization

    Barbara Simons;Jennifer L. Welch;Nancy A. Lynch

  • Virtual Mobile Nodes for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

    Shlomi Dolev;Seth Gilbert;Nancy A. Lynch;Elad Michael Schiller

  • Wiley Series on Parallel and Distributed Computing

    Hagit Attiya;Jennifer Welch

  • Distributed token circulation in mobile ad hoc networks

    N. Malpani;Yu Chen;N.H. Vaidya;J.L. Welch

  • Random walk for self-stabilizing group communication in ad-hoc networks

    S. Dolev;E. Schiller;J. Welch

  • An asynchronous leader election algorithm for dynamic networks

    Rebecca Ingram;Patrick Shields;Jennifer E. Walter;Jennifer L. Welch

  • Managing the data warehouse

    W. H. Inmon;J. D. Welch;Katherine L. Glassey

  • Modular construction of a Byzantine agreement protocol with optimal message bit complexity

    Brian A. Coan;Jennifer L. Welch

  • Reliable neighbor discovery for mobile ad hoc networks

    Alejandro Cornejo;Saira Viqar;Jennifer L. Welch

  • Distributed reconfiguration of metamorphic robot chains

    Jennifer E. Walter;Jennifer L. Welch;Nancy M. Amato

  • Distributed token circulation on mobile ad hoc networks

    N. Malpani;N.H. Vaidya;J.L. Welch

Frequent Co-Authors

Hagit Attiya
Hagit Attiya Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Shlomi Dolev
Shlomi Dolev Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Seth Gilbert
Seth Gilbert National University of Singapore
Nancy M. Amato
Nancy M. Amato University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Injong Rhee
Injong Rhee North Carolina State University
Nitin H. Vaidya
Nitin H. Vaidya Georgetown University
Jianer Chen
Jianer Chen Texas A&M University
Leslie Lamport
Leslie Lamport Microsoft (United States)
Andréa W. Richa
Andréa W. Richa Arizona State University

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