Stacy Patterson

PhD Candidate
Distributed Systems Lab
Department of Computer Science
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
sep at cs.ucsb.edu

Publications

Effect of Topological Dimension on Rigidity of Vehicle Formations: Fundamental Limitations of Local Feedback,
Bassam Bamieh, Mihailo Jovanovic, Partha Mitra, and Stacy Patterson,
47th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) (to appear), December 9-11, 2008, Cancun, Mexico
Using Tomography for Ubiquitous Sensing,
Stacy Patterson, Bassam Bamieh, and Amr El Abbadi,
16th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM GIS 2008) (to appear), November 5-7, 2008, Irvine, CA, USA
Distributed Consensus with Link Failures as a Structured Stochastic Uncertainty Problem,
Stacy Patterson and Bassam Bamieh,
2008 Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, September 23-26, 2008, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA
On the Feasibility of Large-Scale Automated Highways (invited paper),
Stacy Patterson, Bassam Bamieh, Amr El Abbadi, and Mihailo Jovanovic,
First International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science, July 21, 2008, Dublin, Ireland
Demonstration - Environmenal Tomography: Ubiquitous Sensing with Mobile Devices,
Stacy Patterson, Bassam Bamieh, and Amr El Abbadi,
The 24th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), April 7-12, 2008, Cancun, Mexico, Technical Report
Distributed Average Consensus with Stochastic Communication Failures,
Stacy Patterson, Bassam Bamieh, and Amr El Abbadi,
46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), December 12-14, 2007, New Orleans, LA USA
Brief Announcment: Convergence Analysis of Scalable Gossip Protocols,
Stacy Patterson, Bassam Bamieh, and Amr El Abbadi,
20th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2006), Stockholm, Sweden
From Static Distributed Systems to Dynamic Systems,
Achour Mostefaoui, Michel Raynal, Corentin Travers, Stacy Patterson, Divyakant Agrawal, and Amr El Abbadi,
Proceedings 24th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2005), Orlando, FL.
Guaranteeing Correctness of Lock-free Range Queries over P2P Data,
Stacy Patterson, Divyakant Agrawal, and Amr El Abbadi,
The Third International Workshop on Databases, Information Systems and Peer-to-Peer Computing (DBISP2P 2005) with VLDB 2005.

Teaching

ECE 94R: Green Works: Exploring Technology and the Search for Sustainability Teaching Scholar 2007-2008
CS 171: Introduction to Distributed Systems - TA for Spring 2007
CS 193: Information Technology in the Community - TA for Winter 2007
CS 271: Advanced Topics in Distributed Systems - TA for Fall 2006 (awarded Outstanding Teaching Assistant, Honorable Mention)
CS 273: Data and Knowledge Bases - TA for Spring 2006
CS 271: Advanced Topics in Distributed Systems - TA for Winter 2006
CS 40: Foundations of Computer Science - TA for Fall 2005 Discussion Notes (awarded Outstanding Teaching Assistant, Honorable Mention)

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