Publications

2008

• Systems Aspects of Probabilistic Data Management (tutorial)
  Magdalena Balazinska, Christopher Re, and Dan Suciu
  To appear in VLDB 2008.
  
• Fault-tolerant Stream Processing Using a Distributed, Replicated File System
  YongChul Kwon, Magdalena Balazinska, and Albert Greenberg
  To appear in the Journal of Data Management Research. Volume 1.
  (formerly Proc. of VLDB 2008).
  
• Cascadia: A System for Specifying, Detecting, and Managing RFID Events
  Evan Welbourne, Nodira Khoussainova, Julie Letchner, Yang Li,
  Magdalena Balazinska, Gaetano Borriello, and Dan Suciu
  Mobisys 2008.
• Specification, Detection, and Notification of RFID Events with Cascadia (demo)
  Evan Welbourne, Garret Cole, Nodira Khoussainova, Julie Letchner, Yang Li,
  Magdalena Balazinska, Gaetano Borriello, Dan Suciu
  Mobisys 2008.
• Event Queries on Correlated Probabilistic Streams
  Christopher Re, Julie Letchner, Magdalena Balazinska, and Dan Suciu
  SIGMOD 2008.
• A Demonstration of Cascadia through a Digital Diary Application (demo)
  Nodira Khoussainova, Evan Welbourne, Magdalena Balazinska, Gaetano Borriello,
  Garrett Cole, Julie Letcnher, Yang Li, Christopher Re, Dan Suciu, and Jordan Walke
  SIGMOD 2008.
• Fault-Tolerance and High Availability in Data Stream Management Systems
  Magdalena Balazinska, Jeong-Hyon Hwang, and Mehul A. Shah
  To appear in the Encyclopedia of Database Systems
  We also have an unofficial longer version.
• PEEX: Extracting Probabilistic Events from RFID Data
  Nodira Khoussainova, Magdalena Balazinska, and Dan Suciu
  ICDE 2008.
• Fault-Tolerance in the Borealis Distributed Stream Processing System
  Magdalena Balazinska, Hari Balakrishnan, Samuel R. Madden, and Michael Stonebraker.
  ACM Transactions on Database Systems. Volume 33. Issue 1.
  (This paper is an extended version of the 2005 SIGMOD paper below).

2007

• Expressing Privacy Policies Using Authorization Views
  Vibhor Rastogi, Evan Welbourne, Nodira Khoussainova, Travis Kriplean,
  Magdalena Balazinska, Gaetano Borriello, Tadayoshi Kohno, and Dan Suciu.
  5th International Workshop on Privacy in UbiComp (UbiPriv'07).
  
• Physical Access Control for Captured RFID Data
  Travis Kriplean, Evan Welbourne, Nodira Khoussainova, Vibhor Rastogi,
  Magdalena Balazinska, Gaetano Borriello, Tadayoshi Kohno, Dan Suciu
  IEEE Pervasive Computing. Volume 6. No 4. 2007
  
• HomeViews: Peer-to-Peer Middleware for Personal Data Sharing Applications
  Roxana Geambasu, Magdalena Balazinska, Steven D. Gribble, and Henry M. Levy
  2007 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2007).
  
• On-Demand View Materialization and Indexing for Network Forensic Analysis
  Roxana Geambasu, Tanya Bragin, Jaeyeon Jung, and Magdalena Balazinska
  Third International Workshop on Networking Meets Databases (NetDB'07)
  
• Data Management in the Worldwide Sensor Web
  Magdalena Balazinska, Amol Deshpande, Michael Franklin, Phil Gibbons,
  Jim Gray, Mark Hansen, Michael Liebhold, Suman Nath, Alex Szalay, and Vincent Tao
  IEEE Pervasive Computing. Volume 6. Number 2.
  
• Challenges for Pervasive RFID-based Infrastructures
  Evan Welbourne, Magdalena Balazinska, Gaetano Borriello, and Waylon Brunette
  IEEE PerCom Workshop on Pervasive RFID/NFC Technology and Applications. (PERTEC'07)
  
• Moirae: History-Enhanced Monitoring
  Magdalena Balazinska, YongChul Kwon, Nathan Kuchta, and Dennis Lee.
  Third Biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR 2007).
  
• The Aurora and Borealis Stream Processing Engines
  U. Cetintemel, D. Abadi, Y. Ahmad, H. Balakrishnan,
  M. Balazinska, M. Cherniack, J. Hwang, W. Lindner,
  S. Madden, A. Maskey, A. Rasin, E. Ryvkina, M. Stonebraker,
  N. Tatbul, Y. Xing, S. Zdonik
  Book chapter in "Data Stream Management: Processing High-Speed Data Streams",
  edited by M. Garofalakis, J. Gehrke, R. Rastogi, Springer, 2007

2006 and older

• Towards Correcting Input Data Errors Probabilistically Using Integrity Constraints
  Nodira Khoussainova, Magdalena Balazinska, and Dan Suciu
  Fifth International ACM Workshop on Data Engineering for Wireless and Mobile Access (MobiDE'06).
• Fault-Tolerance in the Borealis Distributed Stream Processing System
  Magdalena Balazinska, Hari Balakrishnan, Samuel Madden, and Michael Stonebraker
  2005 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2005)
  
• The Design of the Borealis Stream Processing Engine
  Daniel J. Abadi, Yanif Ahmad, Magdalena Balazinska, Ugur Centintemel,
  Mitch Cherniack, Jeong-Hyon Hwang, Wolfgang Lindner, Anurag S. Maskey,
  Alexander Rasin, Esther Ryvkina, Nesime Tatbul, Ying Xing, and Stan Zdonik
  Second Biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR 2005).
• High-Availability Algorithms for Distributed Stream Processing
  Jeong-Hyon Hwang, Magdalena Balazinska, Alexander Rasin,
  Ugur Cetintemel, Michael Stonebraker, and Stan Zdonik
  The 21st International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2005).
• Retrospective on Aurora
  H. Balakrishnan, M. Balazinska, D. Carney, U. Cetintemel, M. Cherniack, C. Convey, E. Galvez, J. Salz, M. Stonebraker,
  N. Tatbul, R. Tibbets, S. Zdonik.
  VLDB Journal, Volume 13, Number 4, December, 2004.
• Contract-Based Load Management in Federated Distributed Systems
  Magdalena Balazinska, Hari Balakrishnan, and Mike Stonebraker
  USENIX/ACM Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '04)
  San Francisco, California, March 2004
  
• Characterizing Mobility and Network Usage in a Corporate Wireless Local-Area Network
  Magdalena Balazinska, Paul Castro
  MobiSys 2003 - The First International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services.
  San Francisco, California, May 2003.
• The Aurora and Medusa Projects
  Stan Zdonik, Michael Stonebraker, Mitch Cherniack, Ugur Centintemel,
  Magdalena Balazinska, and Hari Balakrishnan
  Bulletin of the Technical Committe on Data Engineering (invited paper).
  IEEE Computer Society. March 2003. p.3-10.
• Thwarting Web Censorship with Untrusted Messenger Discovery
  Nick Feamster, Magdalena Balazinska, Winston Wang, Hari Balakrishnan, David Karger
  3rd Workshop on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, Dresden, Germany, March 2003.
• Scalable Distributed Stream Processing
  Mitch Cherniack, Hari Balakrishnan, Magdalena Balazinska, Don Carney,
  Ugur Cetintemel, Ying Xing, and Stan Zdonik
  CIDR 2003 - First Biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research,
  Asilomar, California, January 2003.
• INS/Twine: A Scalable Peer-to-Peer Architecture for Intentional Resource Discovery
  Magdalena Balazinska, Hari Balakrishnan, and David Karger
  Pervasive 2002 - International Conference on Pervasive Computing,
  Zurich, Switzerland, August 2002. © Springer-Verlag
• Infranet: Circumventing Web Censorship and Surveillance
  Nick Feamster, Magdalena Balazinska, Greg Harfst, Hari Balakrishnan, and David Karger
  11th USENIX Security Symposium, San Francisco, CA, August 2002.
  Best Student Paper Award
• M. Balazinska, E. Merlo, M. Dagenais, B. Lague and K. Kontogiannis. Advanced Clone Analysis to Support Object-Oriented System Refactoring. 7th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering. WCRE'2000. P.98-107. IEEE Computer Society Press. [ps] (281K).
• M. Balazinska, E. Merlo, M. Dagenais, B. Lague and K. Kontogiannis. Partial Redesign of Java Software Systems Based on Clone Analysis. 6th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering. WCRE'99. P.326-336. IEEE Computer Society Press. [ps] (167K).
• M. Balazinska, E. Merlo, M. Dagenais, B. Lague and K. Kontogiannis. Measuring Clone Based Reengineering Opportunities. The Sixth International Symposium on Software Metrics. Metrics'99. P.292-303. IEEE Computer Society Press. [ps] (273K).

Technical Reports

• A Comparison of Stream-Oriented High-Availability Algorithms
  Jeong-Hyon Hwang, Magdalena Balazinska, Alexander Rasin,
  Ugur Cetintemel, Michael Stonebraker, and Stan Zdonik
  Technical Report CS-03-17. Brown University, September 2003.

Theses

• Fault-Tolerance and Load Management in a Distributed Stream Processing System.
  Magdalena Balazinska.
  PhD dissertation. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. February 2006.
• Master's thesis: Magdalena Balazinska. Reconception de systèmes orientés-objet basée sur l'analyse des clones. Mémoire. M.Sc.A. École Polytechnique de Montréal. Novembre 1999. ps 759K of French text ;-)