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Kenneth C. Sevcik

Kenneth C. Sevcik

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Computer Science

D-Index
39
Citations
10822
World Ranking
9532
National Ranking
375

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1997 - ACM Fellow For exceptional service to ACM and the computing profession, and for outstanding research contributions in data base systems and in computer/communication performance evaluation.

Overview

Kenneth C. Sevcik was affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada during their academic career. Their work primarily contributed to the fields of database systems and computer/communication performance evaluation.

Sevcik's research career included recognition by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), where they were named an ACM Fellow in 1997. This award cited their exceptional service to ACM and the computing profession, as well as their research contributions in database systems and performance evaluation.

They passed away prior to the current date.

Best Publications

  • The Grid File: An Adaptable, Symmetric Multikey File Structure

    J. Nievergelt;Hans Hinterberger;Kenneth C. Sevcik

  • Quantitative system performance: computer system analysis using queueing network models

    Edward D. Lazowska;John Zahorjan;G. Scott Graham;Kenneth C. Sevcik

  • Theory and Practice in Parallel Job Scheduling

    Dror G. Feitelson;Larry Rudolph;Uwe Schwiegelshohn;Kenneth C. Sevcik

  • Optimal Histograms with Quality Guarantees

    H. V. Jagadish;Nick Koudas;S. Muthukrishnan;Viswanath Poosala

  • The Method of Layers

    J.A. Rolia;K.C. Sevcik

  • Quantitative System Performance.

    Edward D. Lazowska;John Zahorjan;G. Scott Graham;Kenneth C. Sevcik

  • The New Jersey Data Reduction Report.

    Daniel Barbará;William DuMouchel;Christos Faloutsos;Peter J. Haas

  • LIMBO: Scalable clustering of categorical data

    Periklis Andritsos;Panayiotis Tsaparas;Renée J. Miller;Kenneth C. Sevcik

  • The Distribution of Queuing Network States at Input and Output Instants

    K. C. Sevcik;I. Mitrani

  • Cycle time properties of the FDDI token ring protocol

    K. C. Sevcik;M. J. Johnson

  • Characterizations of parallelism in applications and their use in scheduling

    K. C. Sevcik

  • Size separation spatial join

    Nick Koudas;Kenneth C. Sevcik

  • Balanced job bound analysis of queueing networks

    John Zahorjan;Kenneth C. Sevcik;Derek L. Eager;Bruce Galler

  • Achieving robustness in distributed database systems

    Derek L. Eager;Kenneth C. Sevcik

  • Application scheduling and processor allocation in multiprogrammed parallel processing systems

    K. C. Sevcik

  • Locality and Loop Scheduling on NUMA Multiprocessors

    Hui Li;Sudarsan Tandri;Michael Stumm;Kenneth C. Sevcik

  • High dimensional similarity joins: algorithms and performance evaluation

    N. Koudas;K.C. Sevcik

  • Performance evaluation of a relational associative processor

    E. A. Ozkarahan;S. A. Schuster;K. C. Sevcik

  • Parallel sorting by over partitioning

    Hui Li;Kenneth C. Sevcik

  • The Distribution of Queueing Network States at Input and Output Instants

    Kenneth C. Sevcik;Isi Mitrani

  • The Grid File: An Adaptable, Symmetric Multi-Key File Structure

    Jürg Nievergelt;Hans Hinterberger;Kenneth C. Sevcik

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Stumm
Michael Stumm University of Toronto
Derek L. Eager
Derek L. Eager University of Saskatchewan
Nick Koudas
Nick Koudas University of Toronto
Viswanath Poosala
Viswanath Poosala Facebook (United States)
Hosagrahar V. Jagadish
Hosagrahar V. Jagadish University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Yannis E. Ioannidis
Yannis E. Ioannidis National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Edward D. Lazowska
Edward D. Lazowska University of Washington
William DuMouchel
William DuMouchel Oracle (United States)
Joseph M. Hellerstein
Joseph M. Hellerstein University of California, Berkeley
Erol Gelenbe
Erol Gelenbe Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics

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