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Enabling Interactive Jobs in Virtualized Data Centers (Extended Abstract)
October 8, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Existing batch schedulers are incapable of adequately addressing the need for immediate access to resources for interactive jobs. This paper describes the virtual machine-centric scheduler, UBIS...
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Accelerating Techniques for Rapid Mitigation of Phishing and Spam Emails
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Spam filters that are implemented using Naïve Bayesian learning techniques are widely deployed worldwide with email clients such as Outlook. These filters that are deployed on end user's computers...
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Challenges in Mitigating Phishing and Spam e-Mails
June 7, 2009, 12:00am PDT
A credible threat on the Internet that is more serious than spam is phishing. In phishing attacks, attackers use forged e-mails and Websites to appear as if they originate from legitimate...
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Analyzing Nonblocking Switching Networks Using Linear Programming (Duality)
November 25, 2009, 12:00am PST
The main task in analyzing a switching network design (including circuit-, multirate-, and photonic-switching) is to determine the minimum number of some switching components so that the design is...
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Outsourcing, External Collaboration, and Innovation Among U.S. Firms in the Biopharmaceutical Industry
March 5, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper examines the outsourcing patterns of U.S. firms in the biopharmaceutical industry. Data from an exploratory survey of 86 companies suggest that the outsourcing of strategic activities...
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Evolutionary Methodologies for Decision Support
June 15, 2007, 12:00am PDT
One of the primary objectives of the MCEER research program is to contribute toward the development of disaster resilient communities. As a result, there is a general need to model, understand and...
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Assurance Seals, On‑Line Customer Satisfaction, And Repurchase Intention
March 31, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper explores how third-party assurance seals, a privacy service provided by vendors to mitigate customers' fears, has an impact on online customer satisfaction and repeat-purchase...
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Trust And Satisfaction, Two Stepping Stones For Successful E-Commerce Relationships: A Longitudinal Exploration
May 31, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Trust and satisfaction are essential ingredients for successful business relationships in business-to-consumer electronic commerce. Yet there is little research on trust and satisfaction in...
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Improving MPI-HMMER's Scalability With Parallel I/O
May 22, 2008, 12:00am PDT
As the size of biological sequence databases continues to grow, the time to search these databases has grown proportionally. This has led to many parallel implementations of common sequence...
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Motivation And Financial Literacy
September 25, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines the hypothesis that low financial literacy scores among young adults, even after they have taken a course in personal finance, is related to a lack of motivation to learn or...
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Toward Dynamic Application Protocols in Heterogeneous Distributed Computing Systems
May 18, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In order to achieve the full transformational promise of Sea Power 21 and net-centric warfare, a highly efficient and adaptable Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is required. This paper proposes...
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Distributed Spectrum Sharing for Video Streaming in Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks
August 14, 2009, 12:00am PDT
A distributed joint routing and spectrum sharing algorithm for video streaming applications over cognitive radio ad hoc networks is proposed in this paper. The proposed cross-layer control scheme...
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A Case for Compressive Video Streaming in Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks
January 25, 2010, 12:00am PST
Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (WMSN) are self-organizing wireless systems of embedded devices deployed to retrieve, distributively process in real-time, store, correlate, and fuse multimedia...
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Drivers of Information Security Search Behavior: An Investigation of Network Attacks and Vulnerability Disclosures
November 6, 2010, 12:00am PDT
More and more people use search engines to seek for various information. This study investigates the search behavior that drives the search for information security knowledge via a search engine....
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Insider Threat Analysis Using Information-Centric Modeling
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Capability Acquisition Graphs (CAGs) provide a powerful framework for modeling insider threats, network attacks and system vulnerabilities. However, CAG-based security modeling systems have yet to...
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Effective Navigation of Query Results Based on Concept Hierarchies
September 16, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Search queries on biomedical databases, such as PubMed, often return a large number of results, only a small subset of which is relevant to the user. Ranking and categorization, which can also be...
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CUSP: Customizable and Usable Spam Filters for Detecting Phishing Emails
May 19, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Phishing attack continues to be a significant threat to the Internet users and commercial organizations worldwide causing billions of dollars in damage. A successful phishing attack depends on the...
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IDKEYMAN: An Identity-Based Key Management Scheme for Wireless Ad Hoc Body Area Networks
May 20, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Wireless Ad hoc Body Area Networks are primarily used in health-care applications for patient monitoring purposes. Publisher-Subscriber driven Body Area Networks enable publishers (Medical sensors...
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A Scalable Asynchronous Replication-Based Strategy for Fault Tolerant MPI Applications
October 21, 2008, 12:00am PDT
As computational clusters increase in size, their mean-time-to-failure reduces. Typically checkpointing is used to minimize the loss of computation. Most checkpointing techniques, however, require...
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Enabling Interactive Jobs in Virtualized Data Centers
October 8, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Existing batch schedulers are incapable of adequately addressing the need for immediate access to resources for interactive jobs. In this paper the authors describe the virtual machine-centric...
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Accelerating Molecular Dynamics Simulations With GPUs
July 14, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Molecular dynamics simulations are known to run for many days or weeks before completion. In this paper the authors explore the use of GPUs to accelerate a Lennard-Jones-based molecular dynamics...
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Evaluating the Use of GPUs in Liver Image Segmentation and HMMER Database Searches
February 15, 2009, 12:00am PST
In this paper the authors present the results of parallelizing two life sciences applications, Markov Random Fields-based (MRF) liver segmentation and HMMER's Viterbi algorithm, using GPUs. They...
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A Fault-Tolerant Strategy for Virtualized HPC Clusters
November 24, 2008, 12:00am PST
Virtualization is a common strategy for improving the utilization of existing computing resources, particularly within data centers. However, its use for High Performance Computing (HPC)...
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A Robust Iris Localization Method Using an Active Contour Model and Hough Transform
May 15, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Iris segmentation is one of the crucial steps in building an iris recognition system since it affects the accuracy of the iris matching significantly. This segmentation should accurately extract...
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Listen-While-Talking: A Technique for Primary User Protection
January 3, 2009, 12:00am PST
Cognitive radios opportunistically share the spectrum with the primary users. In this paper, the authors address the problem of detecting the presence of a primary user while a secondary user is...
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What Particulars Are Referred to in Electronic Health Record Data? a Case Study in Integrating Referent Tracking Into an EHR Application
July 16, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Referent Tracking (RT) advocates the use of instance unique identifiers to refer to the entities comprising the subject matter of patient health records. RT promises many benefits to those who use...
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On the Use of Lexeme Features for Writer Verification
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Document examiners use a variety of features to analyze a given handwritten document for writer verification. The challenge in the automatic classification of a pair of documents to belong to the...
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Evaluation of Rarity of Fingerprints in Forensics
December 9, 2010, 12:00am PST
A method for computing the rarity of latent fingerprints represented by minutiae is given. It allows determining the probability of finding a match for an evidence print in a database of n known...
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Comparison of Statistical Models for Writer Verification
June 17, 2008, 12:00am PDT
A novel statistical model for determining whether a pair of documents, a known and a questioned, were written by the same individual is proposed. The goal of this formulation is to learn the...
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On the Semantics and Evaluation of Top-k Queries in Probabilistic Databases
December 16, 2007, 12:00am PST
The authors formulate three intuitive semantic properties for top-k queries in probabilistic databases, and propose Global-Topk query semantics which satisfies all of them. They provide a dynamic...
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Preference Elicitation in Prioritized Skyline Queries
February 4, 2011, 12:00am PST
Preference queries incorporate the notion of binary preference relation into relational database querying. Instead of returning all the answers, such queries return only the best answers,...
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Contracting Preference Relations for Database Applications
October 12, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The binary relation framework has been shown to be applicable to many real-life preference handling scenarios. Here the authors study preference contraction: the problem of discarding selected...
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Prioritized Repairing and Consistent Query Answering in Relational Databases
May 27, 2010, 12:00am PDT
A consistent query answer in an inconsistent database is an answer obtained in every (minimal) repair. The repairs are obtained by resolving all conflicts in all possible ways. Often, however, the...
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Consistent Query Answers in the Presence of Universal Constraints
February 19, 2009, 12:00am PST
The framework of consistent query answers and repairs has been introduced to alleviate the impact of inconsistent data on the answers to a query. A repair is a minimally different consistent...
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Semantics and Evaluation of Top-k Queries in Probabilistic Databases
November 14, 2008, 12:00am PST
The authors study here fundamental issues involved in top-k query evaluation in probabilistic databases. They consider simple probabilistic databases in which probabilities are associated with...
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Scalar Aggregation in Inconsistent Databases
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The authors consider here scalar aggregation queries in databases that may violate a given set of functional dependencies. The authors define consistent answers to such queries to be greatest...
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Preference Queries Over Sets
November 22, 2010, 12:00am PST
The authors propose a "Logic + SQL" framework for set preferences. Candidate best sets are represented using profiles consisting of scalar features. This reduces set preferences to tuple...
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Profiling Sets for Preference Querying
April 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors propose a logical framework for set preferences. Candidate sets are represented using profiles consisting of scalar features. This reduces set preferences to tuple preferences over set...
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Querying Regular Sets of XML Documents
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The authors investigate the problem of querying (regular) sets of XML documents represented with tree automata and the authors consider n-ary tree automata queries whose expressive power captures...
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The Synthesis of Mathematical Foundations With Real World Applications in Computer Science Education
April 10, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Computer science education for undergraduates is generally limited to coursework. This paper presents an innovative educational program whose objective is to introduce undergraduates to computer...
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Back Up and Restore
May 19, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In today's 24/7 information-centric society, consumers, small businesses and large enterprises have become increasingly dependent on stored data. At home, as well as in business, data is an asset...
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A Holistic Solution to Pursuer-Evader Tracking in Sensor Networks
April 6, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors devise a holistic solution to the pursuer-evader tracking problem taking into account the limitations of the Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) as well as the dynamics of...
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TRANSACT: A Transactional Framework for Programming Wireless Sensor/Actor Networks
February 16, 2008, 12:00am PST
Effectively managing concurrent execution is one of the biggest challenges for future Wireless Sensor/Actor Networks (WSANs): For safety reasons concurrency needs to be tamed to prevent...
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A Plant-and-Play Wireless Sensor Network System for Gate Monitoring
May 26, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors present a practical plant-and-play wireless sensor network system for entry-exit monitoring. Their system is easily configurable and robust, making it feasible to be...
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Singlehop Collaborative Feedback Primitives for Wireless Sensor Networks
July 3, 2007, 12:00am PDT
To achieve scalability, energy-efficiency, and timeliness, wireless sensor network deployments increasingly employ in-network processing. In this paper, the authors identify single-hop feedback...
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An Application of Specification-Based Design of Self-Stabilization to Tracking in Wireless Sensor Networks
August 25, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In previous work, the authors have designed a tracking protocol, Stalk, for wireless sensor networks and proved it to be self-stabilizing at the pseudo-code (I/O automata) level. However, it is...
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Robcast: A Singlehop Reliable Broadcast Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
June 22, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Empirical studies show that Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are extremely prone to the hidden terminal problem. As much as 50% of packet losses have been blamed to the hidden terminal problem...
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Acquaintance Based Soft Location Management (ABSLM) in MANET
January 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
A major challenge faced in Mobile Ad Hoc NETworks (MANET) is locating devices for communication, especially with high node mobility and sparse node density. Present solutions provided by ad hoc...
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Software-Defined Joint Routing and Waveform Selection for Cognitive Ad Hoc Networks
August 25, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The problem of throughput maximization in a cognitive radio network with decentralized control (i.e., a cognitive radio ad hoc network) is considered in this paper. First, decentralized and...
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Compressed-Sensing-Enabled Video Streaming for Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks
July 15, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents the design of a networked system for joint compression, rate control and error correction of video over resource-constrained embedded devices based on the theory of compressed...
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A Software-Defined Radio Ionospheric Chirpsounder for HF Propagation Analysis
September 18, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Advanced users of High Frequency (HF) radio communications have long used systems known as chirpsounders to obtain real-time information about the ionospheric propagation conditions of different...
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Resilient Image Sensor Networks in Lossy Channels Using Compressed Sensing
January 25, 2010, 12:00am PST
Data loss in wireless communications greatly affects the reconstruction quality of a signal. In the case of images, data loss results in a reduction in quality of the received image....
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On the Performance of Compressive Video Streaming for Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks
January 25, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper investigates the potential of the Compressed Sensing (CS) paradigm for video streaming in Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks. The objective is to study performance limits and outline...
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Distributed Routing, Relay Selection, and Spectrum Allocation in Cognitive and Cooperative Ad Hoc Networks
April 23, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Throughput maximization is a key challenge in cognitive radio ad hoc networks, where the availability of local spectrum resources may change from time to time and hop-by-hop. To achieve this...
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Queuing Processes in GPS and PGPS With LRD Traffic Inputs
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Long Range Dependent (LRD) traffic whose single server queue process is Weibull Bounded (WB) is first analyzed. Two upper bounds on the individual session's queue length of LRD traffic under the...
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ORBIT Mobility Framework and Orbit Based Routing (OBR) Protocol for MANET
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
A major hurdle in evaluating routing protocols for a Mobile Ad hoc NETwork (MANET) is the appropriate modeling of the mobility of wireless nodes. Although the pure random nature of the Random...
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A Privacy-Preserving Remote Data Integrity Checking Protocol With Data Dynamics and Public Verifiability
October 5, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Remote data integrity checking is a crucial technology in cloud computing. Recently many works focus on providing data dynamics and/or public verifiability to this type of protocol. Existing...
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On Fairness of Incentive-Compatible Multi-Radio Channel Assignment in Multiple Collision Domains
May 27, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Non-cooperative channel assignment, i.e., channel assignment for selfish wireless devices, is highly challenging, especially in multiple collision domains. In this paper, the authors study the...
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Data Spider: A Resilient Mobile Basestation Protocol for Efficient Data Collection in Wireless Sensor Networks
August 31, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Traditional deployments of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) rely on static basestations to collect data. For applications with highly spatio-temporal and dynamic data generation, such as tracking...
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Optimistic Concurrency Control for Multi-Hop Wireless Sensor Networks
July 31, 2009, 12:00am PDT
With the inclusion of actuation capabilities, emerging wireless sensor applications are much less tolerant to inconsistencies in decisions compared to passive sensing applications. Multi-hop...
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INPAC: An Enforceable Incentive Scheme for Wireless Networks Using Network Coding
July 28, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Wireless mesh networks have been widely deployed to provide broadband network access, and their performance can be significantly improved by using a new technology called network coding. In a...
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On the Fly Learning of Mobility Profiles for Intelligent Routing in Pocket Switched Networks
July 21, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors propose a novel routing protocol, PRO, for profile-based routing in pocket switched networks. Differing from previous routing protocols, PRO treats node encounters as...
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On the Effectiveness of Structural Detection and Defense Against P2P-Based Botnets
February 4, 2009, 12:00am PST
Recently, Peer-To-Peer (P2P) networks have emerged as a covert communication platform for malicious programs known as bots. As popular distributed systems, they allow bots to communicate easily...
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Mobility Profiler: A Framework for Discovering Mobile User Profiles
September 22, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Mobility path information of cellphone users play a crucial role in a wide range of cellphone applications, including context-based search and advertising, early warning systems, citywide sensing...
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iMAP: Indirect Measurement of Air Pollution With Cellphones
January 21, 2008, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors introduce the cellphone-based indirect sensing problem. While participatory sensing aims at monitoring of a phenomenon by deploying a dense set of sensors carried by...
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Writing on Water, a Lightweight Soft-State Tracking Framework for Dense Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
March 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In a mobile ad hoc network, tracking protocols need to deal with - in addition to the mobility of the target - the mobility of the intermediate nodes that maintain a track toward the target. To...
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Integrating Recognition and Reasoning in Smart Environments
April 19, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The goal is to develop 'Smart indoor environments' that are monitored unobtrusively by biometric capture devices, such as video cameras, microphones, etc. Such environments will keep track of...
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Evaluating the Use of GPUs for Life Science Applications
May 22, 2008, 12:00am PDT
As the peak performance of GPUs continues to outpace general-purpose processors, the use of GPUs for application acceleration is becoming more widespread. However, not all algorithms benefit...
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On the Hardness of Eliminating Cheating Behavior in Time Synchronization Protocols for Sensor Networks
April 23, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Wireless sensor networks are fast gaining popularity for use in a variety of remote sensing, emergency monitoring and information collection applications. Time synchronization in such highly...
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Biometrics Driven Smart Environments: Abstract Framework and Evaluation
April 21, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors present an abstract framework for 'Smart indoor environments' that are monitored unobtrusively by biometrics capture devices, such as video cameras, microphones, etc. The interest is...
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Coordinated Locomotion of Mobile Sensor Networks
December 13, 2007, 12:00am PST
Stationary Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) fail to scale when the area to be monitored is open (i.e., borderless) and the physical phenomena to be monitored may migrate through a large region....
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LOCOMO: Distance-Based Localization Against Malicious Beacon Nodes
July 2, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Last few years have seen extensive research being done in the area of localization algorithms for wireless, ad hoc computer and sensor networks. Despite the progress in the area of efficient...
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Report Dropping and Tampering Detection in Sensor Networks: Enhancing Data Reliability
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Achieving communication dependability in sensor networks is difficult due to limitations on node power and wireless channel unreliability. This problem is further compounded by hard-to-detect...
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The Synthesis of Mathematical Foundations With Real World Applications in Computer Science Education
April 10, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Computer science education for undergraduates is generally limited to coursework. This paper presents an innovative educational program whose objective is to introduce undergraduates to computer...
Provided by University of New York at Buffalo
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Querying Regular Sets of XML Documents
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The authors investigate the problem of querying (regular) sets of XML documents represented with tree automata and the authors consider n-ary tree automata queries whose expressive power captures...
Provided by University at Buffalo
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Profiling Sets for Preference Querying
April 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors propose a logical framework for set preferences. Candidate sets are represented using profiles consisting of scalar features. This reduces set preferences to tuple preferences over set...
Provided by University at Buffalo
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Preference Queries Over Sets
November 22, 2010, 12:00am PST
The authors propose a "Logic + SQL" framework for set preferences. Candidate best sets are represented using profiles consisting of scalar features. This reduces set preferences to tuple...
Provided by University at Buffalo
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Scalar Aggregation in Inconsistent Databases
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The authors consider here scalar aggregation queries in databases that may violate a given set of functional dependencies. The authors define consistent answers to such queries to be greatest...
Provided by University at Buffalo
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Semantics and Evaluation of Top-k Queries in Probabilistic Databases
November 14, 2008, 12:00am PST
The authors study here fundamental issues involved in top-k query evaluation in probabilistic databases. They consider simple probabilistic databases in which probabilities are associated with...
Provided by University at Buffalo
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Consistent Query Answers in the Presence of Universal Constraints
February 19, 2009, 12:00am PST
The framework of consistent query answers and repairs has been introduced to alleviate the impact of inconsistent data on the answers to a query. A repair is a minimally different consistent...
Provided by University at Buffalo
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