She is a Fellow of the ACM and IEEE, and a board member of the Computing Research Association’s Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W). She is a former vice chair of the Computing Research Association (CRA), co-chair of CRA-W, IEEE Publication Board member, associate editor of ACM TOPLAS and IEEE TSE, member of the CCR NSF advisory board, and ACM SIGSOFT chair. Awards in...

This paper analyzes a model where investors use a credit rating to decide whether to finance a firm. The rating quality depends on the credit rating agency’s (CRA) effort, which is unobservable. We analyze optimal compensation contracts for the CRA that differ depending on whether the firm, investors or a social planner orders the rating. We find that rating errors are larger when the firm orde...

Addressing the problem of packet transmission in a wireless soft real-time system, we present ve splitting protocols that take packet deadlines into account. We show, as in the case of non real-time splitting algorithms, that blocked access versions ooer higher success rates than free access ones. Of the two best performing blocked access protocols, performance under moderate to heavy loads fur...

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Cardiac radioablation (CRA) is an emerging treatment for high-risk refractory ventricular tachycardia (VT). Validated risk scores (I-VT, PAINESD) exist prediction of outcomes following catheter ablation (CA) VT but have unclear utility in patients undergoing CRA. Examine treated with CRA at a high-volume center stratified by I-VT and PAINESD scores. Single-center, IRB-approved retrospective cas...

Since 1994, the Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W) has offered the Distributed Research Experience for Undergraduates (DREU) program to increase gender diversity in the computing research community. DREU gives undergraduate women the experience of conducting summer research with a professor of computer science or computer engineering (CSE). In 2006, CRA-W joined with...

Modified Reconstructibility Analysis (MRA), a novel decomposition within the framework of set-theoretic (crisp possibilistic) reconstructibility analysis, is presented. It is shown that in some cases, while three-variable NPNclassified Boolean functions are not decomposable using Conventional Reconstructibility Analysis (CRA), they are decomposable using MRA. Also, it is shown that whenever a d...

In 1977, Congress passed the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) to encourage federally insured depository institutions to lend in lowto moderate-income neighborhoods and to lowto moderate-income people. Since then, the profitability of the many special lending programs designed to achieve these goals has been questioned on both theoretical and practical grounds. Arguments range from “if the busin...

subsea structures such as manifolds, line pipes and flow lines are important investments. also because of the sensitivity of environmental issues, corrosion of these structures is of vital importance. subsea corrosion management is different from on-shore and shallow water off-shore corrosion management in mainly three factors: materials, corrosion management practice and cathodic protection. t...

The contiguous rain area (CRA) method for spatial forecast verification is a features-based approach that evaluates the properties of forecast rain systems, namely, their location, size, intensity, and finescale pattern. It is one of many recently developed spatial verification approaches that are being evaluated as part of a Spatial Forecast Verification Methods Intercomparison Project. To bet...