Wei Xu ( 徐葳 )RAD Lab |
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I am a Ph.D candicate at the RAD Lab in EECS Department of UC Berkeley. I work with Prof. David Patterson and Prof. Armando Fox. My current research focus is on analyzing free text console logs for problem detection. I have a broad research interests in distributed system management and design.
Publications
Online system problem detection by mining patterns of console logs
Wei Xu, Ling Huang, Armando Fox, David Patterson, and Michael Jordan
To appear in the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM’ 09), Miami, FL, December 2009[pdf]
Large-scale system problem detection by mining console logs
Wei Xu, Ling Huang, Armando Fox, David Patterson, and Michael Jordan
In Proc. of the 22nd ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP’ 09), Big Sky, MT, October 2009 [pdf]
Mining console logs for large-scale system problem detection
Wei Xu, Ling Huang, Armando Fox, David Patterson, and Michael Jordan
In Proc. of the 3rd workshop on Tackling Computer Systems Problems with Machine Learning Techniques (SysML’08), San Diego, CA, December 2008 [pdf]
Regulating workload in J2EE application servers
Wei Xu, Zhangxi Tan, Armando Fox and David Patterson
In Proc. of the 1st International Workshop on Feedback Control Implementation and Design in Computing Systems and Networks (FeBID’06), Vancouver, Canada, April 2006 [pdf]
Predictive control for dynamic resource allocation in enterprise data centers
Wei Xu, Xiaoyun Zhu, Sharad Singhal, and Zhikui Wang
In Proc. of the 10th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations & Management Symposium (NOMS'06), Vancouver, BC, Apr. 2006 [pdf]
Feedback control theory and processing system log streams
Wei Xu
Master thesis, EECS Department, UC Berkeley, December, 2005 [pdf]
Control considerations for scaling event processing
Wei Xu, Joseph L. Hellerstein, Bill Kramer and David Patterson
In Proc. of the 16th IFIP/IEEE Distributed Systems: Operations and Management (DSOM'05), Barcelona, Spain, October 2005 [pdf]
A flexible framework for statistical learning and data mining from system log streams
Wei Xu, Peter Bodik and David Patterson
In Proc. of Workshop on Temporal Data Mining: Algorithms, Theory and Applications at The Fourth IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'04), Brighton, UK, Nov, 2004 [pdf]
Peer-to-Peer support for massively multiplayer games
Bjorn Knutsson, Honghui Lu, Wei Xu and Bryan Hopkins
In Proc. of the 23rd Conference of the IEEE Communications Society (INFOCOM’04), Hong Kong, March 2004 [pdf]
Console log mining project
Please see the project page for an overview and papers/talk slides of this project.
We are planning to release the code as an open source project, please check back soon.
For Berkeley undergrads - If you would like to help on this project, please see potential project ideas or contact me.
CV
Here is my CV.
Personal
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