Some Recent Publications

Z. Syed, Z., P. Indyk, and J. Guttag, "Learning Approximate Sequential Patterns for Classification," Journal of Machine Learning Research, (to appear).

Z. Syed, C. Stultz, M. Kellis, P. Indyk, and J. Guttag, "Motif Discovery in Physiological Datasets: A Methodology for Inferring Predictive Elements," ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery in Data, to appear (2009).

A. Qureshi, H. Balakrishnan, J. Guttag, B. Maggs, R. Weber, "Cutting the Electric Bill for Internet-Scale Systems," SIGCOMM 2009, to appear (August 2009).

A. Shoeb, J. Guttag, T. Pang, and S. Schachter, "A Non-invasive Computerized System For Automatically Initiating Vagus Nerve Stimulation Following Patient-Specific Detection of Seizures or Epileptiform Dischages," International Journal of Neural Systems, to appear (2009).

N. Verma, A. Shoeb, J. Guttag, and A. Chandrakasan, "A Micro-power EEG Acquisition SoC with Integrated Seizure Detection Processor for Continuous Patient Monitoring," 2009 Symposium on VLSI Circuits, June 2009.

E. Shih, A. Shoeb, and J. Guttag, "Building a Customized, Wearable, Energy-Efficient Medical Event Detection System," 7th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (MobiSys '09), June 2009.

P. Sung, Z. Syed, J. Guttag, "Quantifying Morphology Changes in Time Series Data with Skew," 2009 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, April 2009.

Z. Syed, P. Sung, B. Scirica, D. Morrow, C. Stultz, and J. Guttag, "Spectral energy of ECG morphologic differences to predict death," Cardiovascular Engineering, Vol. 9, No. 1, March 2009.

Z. Syed, B. Scirica, S. Mohanavelu, P. Sung, C. Cannon, P. Stone, C. Stultz, and J. Guttag, "Relation of Death Within 90 Days of Non-ST-Elevation Acute Coronary Syndromes to Variability in Electrocardiographic Morphology," American Journal of Cardiology, February 2009.

Syed, Z., Scirica, B., Morrow, D., Mohanavelu, S., Stultz, C., Guttag, "ECG markers to predict cardiovascular death: Heart rate variability, deceleration capacity and morphologic variability in non-ST-elevation ACS from the MERLIN-TIMI 36, American Heart Association Scientific Sessions, November 2008.

Z. Syed, B. Scirica, C. Stultz, and J. Guttag, "Comparing Symbolic Representations of Cardiac Activity to Identify Patient Populations with Similar Risk Profiles," Computers in Cardiology 2008, September 2008.

Z. Syed, B. Scirica, C. Stultz, and J. Guttag, "Risk-Stratification following Acute Coronary Syndromes Using a Novel Electrocardiographic Technique to Measure Variability in Morphology," Computers in Cardiology 2008, September 2008.

E. Shih and J. Guttag, "Reducing Energy Consumption of Multi-Channel Mobile Medical Monitoring Algorithms," 2nd International Workshop on Systems and Networking Support for Healthcare and Assisted Living Environments, June 2008.

A. Shoeb, S. Schachter, T. Pang and J. Guttag, "Implementation of Closed-Loop, EEG-Triggered Vagus Nerve Stimulation using Patient-Specific Seizure Onset Detection From Scalp EEG," American Epilepsy Society 61st Annual, Meeting, December 2007.

Z. Syed, C. Stultz, B. Scirica, C. Cannon, S. Mohanavelu, I. Stebsletova, K. Attia, and J. Guttag, "Morphological Variability: A New Electrocardiographic Technique for Risk Stratification After NSTEACS," American Heart Association Annual Meeting, November 2007.

Ali Shoeb, Trudy Pang, Steven C. Schachter, John Guttag, "Implementation of Closed-Loop, EEG-Triggered Vagus Nerve Stimulation using Patient-Specific Seizure Onset Detection From Scalp EEG," Third International Workshop on Epileptic Seizure Prediction, September 2007.

A. Shoeb, S. Schachter, T. Pang and J. Guttag, "Implementation of Closed-Loop, EEG-Triggered Vagus Nerve Stimulation using Patient-Specific Seizure Onset Detection From Scalp EEG," American Epilepsy Society 61st Annual, Meeting, December 2007.

A. Shoeb, S. Schachter, B. Bourgeois, S.T. Treves, and J Guttag, "Impact of Patient-Specificity on Seizure Onset Detection Performance," 29th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, August 2007.

Z. Syed and J. Guttag, "Prototypical Biological Signals," 2007 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, April 2007.

Z. Syed, D. Curtis, D. Leeds, R. Levine, F. Nesta, and J. Guttag, "A Framework for the Analysis of Acoustical Cardiac Signals," IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 54, no. 4, April 2007.

Z. Syed, J. Guttag, and C. Stoltz, "Clustering and Symbolic Analysis of Cardiovascular Signals: Discovery and Visualization of Medically Relevant Patterns in Long-Term Data with Limited Prior Knowledge," EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, March 2007.

A. Qureshi, J. Carlisle, and J. Guttag, "Tavarua: Video Streaming with WWAN Striping," ACM Multmedia 2006, October 2006.

E. Glassman and J. Guttag, "Reducing the Number of Channels for an Ambulatory Patient-Specific EEG-based Epileptic Seizure Detector by Applying Recursive Feature Elimination," 28th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, August 2006.

Z. Syed, D. Curtis, F. Nesta, R. Levine, and J. Guttag, "Software Enhanced Learning of Cardiac Auscultation," 28th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, August 2006.

Z. Syed, D. Leeds, D. Curtis, F. Nesta, R. Levine, and J. Guttag, "Audio-Visual Tools for Computer-Assisted Diagnosis of Cardiac Disorders," Computer Based Medical Systems 2006, June 2006.

A. Shoeb, S. Schachter, D. Schomer , B. Bourgeois, S. Treves, and J. Guttag, "Feasibility of Detecting Seizure Onsets in Ambulatory Patients," American Epilepsy Society 59th Annual Meeting, December 2005.

A. Shoeb, S. Schachter, D. Schomer , B. Bourgeois, S. Treves, and J. Guttag, "Automated Seizure Onset Detection as a New Method of On-Demand VNS Stimulation: Initial Technical Development and Findings," American Epilepsy Society 59th Annual Meeting, December 2005.

A. Qureshi, A. Shoeb, and J. Guttag, "Building a High-Quality Mobile Telemedicine System Using Network Striping over Dissimilar Wireless Wide Area Networks," 27th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, September 2005.

A. Shoeb, S. Schachter, D. Schomer , B. Bourgeois, S. Treves, and J. Guttag, "Detecting Seizure Onset in the Ambulatory Setting: Demonstrating Feasibility," 27th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, September 2005.

A. Qureshi and J. Guttag, "Horde: Separating Network Striping Policy from Mechanism," MobiSys 2005 June 2005.

J. Guttag (ed.), The Electron and the Bit, EECS at MIT 1902-2002, May 2005.

G. Tan and J. Guttag, "The 802.11 MAC Protocol Leads to Inefficient Equilbria," IEEE INFOCOM, March 2005.

E. Shih, V. Bychkovsky, D. Curtis, and J. Guttag, "Continuous, Remote Medical Monitoring, Proceedings of the Second Annual International Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, November 2004.

A. Shoeb, B. Bourgeois; T. Treves, and J. Guttag, "Patient-Specific Seizure Onset Detection to Optimize Ictal SPECT," American Epilepsy Society 58th Annual Meeting, December 2004.

A. Shoeb, H. Edwards; J. Connolly; B. Bourgeois; T. Treves, and J. Guttag, "Patient-Specific Epileptic Seizure Onset Detection," 26th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, September 2004.

G. Tan and J. Guttag, "Long-term Time-share Guarantees are Necessary for WLANs," 11th ACM SIGOPS European Workshop, September 2004.

A. Shoeb, H. Edwards; J. Connolly; B. Bourgeois; T. Treves, and J. Guttag, "Patient-Specific Seizure Onset Detection," Epilepsy and Behavior, August 2004.

G. Tan and J. Guttag, "Time-based Fairness Improves Performance in Multi-rate WLANs," 2004 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, June 2004.

G. Tan, M. Poletto, F. Kaashoek, and J. Guttag, "Role Classification of Hosts within Enterprise Networks Based on Connection Patterns," 2003 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, June 2003.

G. Tan and J. Guttag, "A Locally Coordinated Scatternet Scheduling Algorithm," 27th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks, November 2002.

G. Tan, A. Miu, J. Guttag, and H. Balakrishnan. "An Efficient Scatternet Formation Algorithm for Dynamic Environments," IASTED Communications and Computer Networks (CCN), Cambridge, MA, November, 2002.

J. Guttag, "Abstract Data Types, Then and Now," Software Pioneers, Contributions to Software Engineering, Springer-Verlag, (2002).

B.L Liskov with J.V. Guttag, Program Development in Java; Abstraction, Specification, and Object-oriented Design, Addison-Wesley (2000).

D. Wetherall, V. Bose, and J. Guttag, "RadioActive Networks: Freedom from the Worst Case Design," MobiCom, August 1999.

V. Bose, M. Ismert, M. Welborn, J. Guttag, "Virtual Radios," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 17, no. 4, April 1999.

D. Wetherall, J. Guttag, and D. Tennenhouse, "ANTS: Network Services Without the Red Tape," IEEE Computer, vol. 32, no. 4, April 1999.

U. Legedza and J. Guttag, "Using Network Level Support to Improve Cache Routing," Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, vol. 20, no. 22-23, November 1998.

D. Wetherall, U. Legedza, and J. Guttag, "Introducing New Internet Services: Why and How," IEEE Network, July/August 1998.

U. Legedza and J. Guttag, "Using Network Level Support to Improve Cache Routing," 3rd International WWW Caching Workshop, June 1998.

D. Wetherall, J. Guttag, and D. Tennenhouse, "ANTS: A Toolkit for Building and Dynamically Deploying Network Protocols," IEEE OpenArch ’98, April 1998.

U. Legedza, D. Wetherall, and J. Guttag, "Improving The Performance of Distributed Applications Using Active Networks," IEEE INFOCOM ‘98, April 1998.