Instrumentation for distributed computing systems. - David W. Krumme; George Cybenko; Alva L. Couch (FJCC, 1987)

Integrated debugging and performance monitoring for parallel programs. - David W. Krumme; Alva L. Couch (COMPSAC, 1991)

Categories and Context in Scalable Execution Visualization. - Alva L. Couch (J. Parallel Distributed Comput., 1993)

Locating performance problems in massively parallel executions. - Alva L. Couch (Proc. IEEE, 1993)

Visualizing Huge Tracefiles with Xscal. - Alva L. Couch (LISA, 1996)

SLINK: Simple, Effective Filesystem Maintenance Abstractions for Community-Based Administration. - Alva L. Couch (LISA, 1996)

Chaos Out of Order: A Simple, Scalable File Distribution Facility For 'Intentionally Heterogeneous' Networks. - Alva L. Couch (LISA, 1997)

It's Elementary, Dear Watson: Applying Logic Programming To Convergent System Management Processes. - Alva L. Couch; Michael Gilfix (LISA, 1999)

An Expectant Chat About Script Maturity. - Alva L. Couch (LISA, 2000)

Peep (The Network Auralizer): Monitoring Your Network with Sound. - Michael Gilfix; Alva L. Couch (LISA, 2000)

The Maelstrom: Network Service Debugging via "Ineffective Procedures". - Alva L. Couch; Noah M. Daniels (LISA, 2001)

Global Impact Analysis of Dynamic Library Dependencies. - Yizhan Sun; Alva L. Couch (LISA, 2001)

Applications: A Case Study. - Leonidas Deligiannidis; Alva L. Couch; Robert J. K. Jacob (International Conference on Internet Computing, 2002)

On the Algebraic Structure of Convergence. - Alva L. Couch; Yizhan Sun (DSOM, 2003)

Seeking Closure in an Open World: A Behavioral Agent Approach to Configuration Management. - Alva L. Couch; John Hart; Elizabeth G. Idhaw; Dominic Kallas (LISA, 2003)

What Is This Thing Called System Configuration? - Alva L. Couch (LISA, 2004)

Experience in Implementing an HTTP Service Closure. - Steven Schwartzberg; Alva L. Couch (LISA, 2004)

On observed reproducibility in network configuration management. - Alva L. Couch; Yizhan Sun (Sci. Comput. Program., 2004)

Toward a Cost Model for System Administration (Awarded Best Paper!). - Alva L. Couch; Ning Wu; Hengky Susanto (LISA, 2005)

Modeling Next Generation Configuration Management Tools. - Mark Burgess; Alva L. Couch (LISA, 2006)

Experience Implementing an IP Address Closure. - Ning Wu; Alva L. Couch (LISA, 2006)

Estimating Reliability of Conditional Promises. - Alva L. Couch; Hengky Susanto; Marc Chiarini (AIMS, 2007)

Modeling Change Without Breaking Promises. - Alva L. Couch; Hengky Susanto; Marc Chiarini (AIMS, 2007)

Should the Root Prompt Require a Road Test? - Alva L. Couch (login Usenix Mag., 2007)

SAGE Update. - Jane-Ellen Long; Alva L. Couch (login Usenix Mag., 2007)

Dynamic Consistency Analysis for Convergent Operators. - Alva L. Couch; Marc Chiarini (AIMS, 2008)

A Theory of Closure Operators. - Alva L. Couch; Marc Chiarini (AIMS, 2008)

Statistical Behaviors of Distributed Transition Planning. - Ning Wu; Alva L. Couch (AIMS, 2008)

Dynamic Dependencies and Performance Improvement. - Marc Chiarini; Alva L. Couch (LISA, 2008)

From x=1 to (setf x 1): What Does ConfigurationManagement Mean? - Alva L. Couch (login Usenix Mag., 2008)

"Standard Deviations" of the Average SystemAdministrator. - Alva L. Couch (login Usenix Mag., 2008)

System Administration Thermodynamics. - Alva L. Couch (login Usenix Mag., 2008)

Dynamics of Resource Closure Operators. - Alva L. Couch; Marc Chiarini (AIMS, 2009)

Management without (Detailed) Models. - Alva L. Couch; Mark Burgess; Marc Chiarini (ATC, 2009)

Combining Learned and Highly-Reactive Management. - Alva L. Couch; Marc Chiarini (MACE, 2009)

Is It Easy Being Green? - Alva L. Couch (login Usenix Mag., 2009)

On the Combined Behavior of Autonomous Resource Management Agents. - Siri Fagernes; Alva L. Couch (AIMS, 2010)

On Alternation and Information Sharing among Cooperating Autonomous Management Agents. - Siri Fagernes; Alva L. Couch (UIC/ATC Workshops, 2010)

Configuration Management Phenomenology. - Alva L. Couch (login Usenix Mag., 2010)

From Tasks to Assurances: Redefining System Administration. - Alva L. Couch (login Usenix Mag., 2010)

Programming with Technological Ritual and Alchemy. - Alva L. Couch (login Usenix Mag., 2010)

Coordination and information exchange among resource management agents. - Siri Fagernes; Alva L. Couch (Integrated Network Management, 2011)

On system rollback and totalized fields: An algebraic approach to system change. - Mark Burgess; Alva L. Couch (J. Log. Algebraic Methods Program., 2011)

2012 Election for the USENIX Board of Directors. - Alva L. Couch (login Usenix Mag., 2011)

On the Effects of Omitting Information Exchange between Autonomous Resource Management Agents. - Siri Fagernes; Alva L. Couch (AIMS, 2013)

Scalability and Information Exchange Among Autonomous Resource Management Agents. - Siri Fagernes; Alva L. Couch (AIMS, 2016)

Stochastic radio interferometric positioning with unsynchronized modulated signals in wireless sensor networks. - Ruiling Gao; Wei-Tse Sun; Alva L. Couch; Chorng Hwa Chang (ICIS, 2017)

An Innovative Positioning System with Unsynchronized Interferometric Modulated Signals in Wireless Sensor Networks. - Ruiling Gao; Alva L. Couch; Chorng Hwa Chang (Int. J. Networked Distributed Comput., 2017)

Advancing distributed data management for the HydroShare hydrologic information system. - Hong Yi; Ray Idaszak; Michael J. Stealey; Chris Calloway; Alva L. Couch; David G. Tarboton (Environ. Model. Softw., 2018)

Resource-sharing among autonomous agents - A comparative study of selfish versus altruistic behaviour. - Siri Fagernes; Alva L. Couch (Serv. Oriented Comput. Appl., 2018)

Map based discovery of hydrologic data in the HydroShare collaboration environment. - Zhaokun Xue; Alva L. Couch; David Tarboton (Environ. Model. Softw., 2019)

MEtaData Format for Open Reef Data (MEDFORD). - Polina Shpilker; John Freeman; Hailey McKelvie; Jill Ashey; Jay-Miguel Fonticella; Hollie Putnam; Jane Greenberg; Lenore Cowen; Alva L. Couch; Noah M. Daniels (MTSR, 2021)

On system rollback and totalised fields. - Mark Burgess; Alva L. Couch (CoRR, 2021)

A recommendation system for scientific water data. - Zhaokun Xue; Alva L. Couch (Int. J. Data Sci. Anal., 2021)

Correction to: A recommendation system for scientific water data. - Zhaokun Xue; Alva L. Couch (Int. J. Data Sci. Anal., 2021)

MEDFORD: A human- and machine-readable metadata markup language. - Polina Shpilker; John Freeman; Hailey McKelvie; Jill Ashey; Jay-Miguel Fonticella; Hollie Putnam; Jane Greenberg; Lenore Cowen; Alva L. Couch; Noah M. Daniels (Database J. Biol. Databases Curation, 2022)

Context-Sensitive Editing for the MEDFORD Metadata Language. - Liam Strand; Andrew Powers; Polina Shpilker; Lenore Cowen; Alva L. Couch; Noah M. Daniels (MTSR, 2023)

AnVILMEDFORD: Documenting Cloud-Based Analysis Projects Using the MEDFORD Metadata Language. - Benjamin Stubbs; Polina Shpilker; Michael Sayers; Shaun Wallace; Noah M. Daniels; Alva L. Couch (IEEE Big Data, 2024)

Linux Configuration Tuning: Is Having a Large Dataset Enough? - Hifza Khalid; Peter Portante; Alva L. Couch (ICPRAM, 2024)

Modeling Batch Tasks Using Recurrent Neural Networks in Co-Located Alibaba Workloads. - Hifza Khalid; Arunselvan Ramaswamy; Simone Ferlin; Alva L. Couch (ICPRAM, 2024)

Cross-Referencing Metadata Through an Extension of the MEDFORD Language. - Polina Shpilker; Benjamin Stubbs; Michael Sayers; Lenore Cowen; Shaun Wallace; Alva L. Couch; Noah M. Daniels (MTSR, 2024)

HydroShare retrospective: Science and technology advances of a comprehensive data and model publication environment for the water science domain. - David G. Tarboton; Daniel P. Ames; Jeffery S. Horsburgh; Jonathan L. Goodall; Alva L. Couch; Richard P. Hooper; Jerad Bales; Shaowen Wang 001; Anthony M. Castronova; Martin Seul; Ray Idaszak; Zhiyu Li; et al. (Environ. Model. Softw., 2024)