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Thermal-Aware Compilation for Register Window-Based Embedded Processors
September 21, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The development of compiler-based mechanisms to optimize the thermal profile of large register files to improve the processor reliability has become an important issue. Thermal hotspots have been...
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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White Papers
HOLLOWS: A Power-Aware Task Scheduler for Energy Harvesting Sensor Nodes
September 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Energy Harvesting Sensor Nodes (EHSNs) have stringent low-energy consumption requirements, but they need to concurrently execute several types of tasks (processing, sensing, actuation, etc.)....
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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White Papers
Query-Biased Near Duplicate Web Document Detecting: Effective, Efficient and Customizable
April 30, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Near-duplicate web documents are abundant and annoying to both search service providers and end-users. Two such documents share the same primary content, but differ from each other with a minor...
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
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Autonomic SLA-Driven Provisioning for Cloud Applications
February 16, 2011, 12:00am PST
Significant achievements have been made for automated allocation of cloud resources. However, the performance of applications may be poor in peak load periods, unless their cloud resources are...
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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White Papers
Using Social Software for Teamwork and Collaborative Project Management in Higher Education
September 14, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper discusses the potential role of social software in supporting teamwork and collaborative project management in higher education. Based on the fact that social software has been widely...
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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Towards Better Entity Resolution Techniques for Web Document Collections
January 22, 2010, 12:00am PST
As person names are non-unique, the same name on different Web pages might or might not refer to the same real-world person. This entity identification problem is one of the most challenging...
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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From Web Data to Entities and Back
March 2, 2010, 12:00am PST
The information need of Web users is often related to their understanding and interpretation of real-world entities and their relationships. For example, some-one might be interested in...
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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Mapping Web Personal Learning Environments
August 7, 2009, 12:00am PDT
A recent trend in education and in web development is to build learning environment on top of web platforms which are carefully designed to host a plurality of software components (sometimes...
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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White Papers
Lightweight Modular Staging: A Pragmatic Approach to Runtime Code Generation and Compiled DSLs
August 11, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Software engineering demands generality and abstraction, performance demands specialization and concretization. Generative programming can provide both, but developing high-quality program...
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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White Papers
Performance Profiling of Virtual Machines
January 17, 2011, 12:00am PST
Profilers based on hardware performance counters are indispensable for performance debugging of complex software systems. All modern processors feature hardware performance counters, but current...
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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White Papers
TwinDrivers: Semi-Automatic Derivation of Fast and Safe Hypervisor Network Drivers From Guest OS Drivers
January 6, 2009, 12:00am PST
In a virtualized environment, device drivers are often run inside a Virtual Machine (VM) rather than in the hypervisor, for reasons of safety and reduction in software engineering effort....
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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White Papers
Affordable SLAM Through the Co-Design of Hardware and Methodology
February 2, 2010, 12:00am PST
Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) is a prominent feature for autonomous robots operating in undefined environments. Application's areas such as consumer robotics appliances would...
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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Tracking Games in Mobile Networks
September 15, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Users of mobile networks can change their identifiers in regions called mix zones in order to defeat the attempt of third parties to track their location. Mix zones must be deployed carefully in...
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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Are Sparse Representations Really Relevant for Image Classification?
March 24, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Recent years have seen an increasing interest in sparse representations for image classification and object recognition, probably motivated by evidence from the analysis of the primate visual...
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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Local Binary Patterns as an Image Preprocessing for Face Authentication
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
One of the major problems in face authentication systems is to deal with variations in illumination. In a realistic scenario, it is very likely that the lighting condition of the probe image does...
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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Potentials of Opportunistic Routing in Energy-Constrained Wireless Sensor Networks
November 26, 2008, 12:00am PST
The low quality of wireless links leads to perpetual packet losses. While an acknowledgment mechanism is generally used to cope with these losses, multiple retransmissions nevertheless occur....
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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Fingerprint Characteristic Extraction by Ridge Orientation: An Approach for a Supervised Contactless Biometric System
February 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Fingerprints are the most widely used human characteristics for the purpose of people identification. However, touch-based fingerprint systems have some drawbacks due to skin elasticity,...
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
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Analysis of Cognitive Radio Networks Based on a Queueing Model With Server Interruptions
May 24, 2012, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors introduce a queueing approach with server interruptions to analyze the performance of a Cognitive Radio (CR) link subject to recurrent failures and interruptions. This...
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Opportunistic Adaptive Relaying in Cognitive Radio Networks
May 24, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Combining cognitive radio technology with user cooperation could be advantageous to both primary and secondary transmissions. In this paper, the authors propose a first relaying scheme for...
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CoRD: A Collaborative Framework for Distributed Data Race Detection
September 11, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Modern concurrent software is riddled with data races and these races constitute the source of many problems. Data races are hard to detect accurately before software is shipped and, once they...
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Several Weak Bit-Commitments Using Seal-Once Tamper-Evident Devices
September 11, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Following both theoretical and practical arguments, the authors construct UC-secure bit-commitment protocols that place their strength on the sender's side and are built using tamper-evident...
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Vulnerability Analysis of the Simple Multicast Forwarding (SMF) Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
August 23, 2011, 12:00am PDT
If deployments of Mobile Ad Hoc NETworks (MANETs) are to become common outside of purely experimental settings, protocols operating such MANETs must be able to preserve network integrity, even...
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Delay Tolerant Networking with OLSRv2
July 24, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper proposes a simple mechanism for enabling basic delay tolerant networking with off-the-shelf MANET routing protocols - with the objective being to enable trading off slightly longer data...
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Performance Analysis of SNMP in OLSRv2-Routed MANETs
August 10, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Mobile Ad Hoc NETworks (MANETs) are generally thought of as infrastructure-less and largely "Un-managed". Yet, while the network may be un-managed, monitoring performance and setting configuration...
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A Prototype Implementation for the IntServ Operation Over DiffServ Networks
January 1, 2013, 12:00am PST
Combining Integrated Services QoS mechanisms for end-to-end signaling at hosts and Differentiated Services QoS mechanisms in the network core is one proposal for overcoming the limitation of...
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Trends In Rainfall And Economic Growth In Africa: A Neglected Cause Of The Growth Tragedy
October 25, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The authors examine the role of trends in rainfall in the poor growth performance of sub-Saharan African nations relative to other developing countries. To do so, they use a new cross-country...
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique
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Network Coding Over Dynamically Changing Networks
November 26, 2008, 12:00am PST
The authors here advocate the case for network coding as a guiding paradigm for the operation of networks that vary in a small time frame, due to node mobility, channel variations, and varying...
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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Network-Coded Broadcast: From Canonical Networks to Random Topologies
November 28, 2007, 12:00am PST
The authors consider the problem of finding the minimum number of transmissions in an ad-hoc network for all-to-all broadcasting using network coding. This paper generalizes previous results for...
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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Online Broadcasting With Network Coding
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Consider a source broadcasting M packets to N receivers over independent erasure channels, where perfect feedback is available from the receivers to the source, and the source is allowed to use...
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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Habit Formation And Fiscal Transmission In Open Economies
December 8, 2010, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors analyze the ability of an open economy version of the neoclassical model to account for the time-series evidence on fiscal policy transmission. In a first step, they...
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique
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SemCaDo: A Serendipitous Causal Discovery Algorithm for Ontology Evolution
May 27, 2011, 12:00am PDT
With the rising need to reuse the existing knowledge when learning Causal Bayesian Networks (CBNs), the ontologies can supply valuable semantic information to make further interesting discoveries...
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique
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Castor: Scalable Secure Routing for Ad Hoc Networks
March 10, 2010, 12:00am PST
Wireless ad hoc networks are inherently vulnerable, as any node can disrupt the communication of potentially any other node in the network. Many solutions to this problem have been proposed. In...
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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Leveraging Social Networks for Increased BitTorrent Robustness
July 7, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In peer-to-peer content delivery systems, such as BitTorrent, there may exist nodes that are non-cooperative and do not contribute their upload bandwidth to the system while still downloading...
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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Self-Organized Fault-Tolerant Routing in Peer-to-Peer Overlays
June 23, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In sufficiently large heterogeneous overlays message loss and delays are likely to occur. This has a significant impact on overlay routing, especially on longer paths. The existing solutions to...
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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ProtoPeer: A P2P Toolkit Bridging the Gap Between Simulation and Live Deployment
March 5, 2009, 12:00am PST
Simulators are a commonly used tool in peer-to-peer systems research. However, they may not be able to capture all the details of a system operating in a live network. Transitioning from the...
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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Authentication-Free Fault-Tolerant Peer-to-Peer Service Provisioning
June 29, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The correct functioning of a peer-to-peer network relies on cooperative behavior of peers as service providers. Current approaches to detection and deterrence of non-cooperative behavior, such as...
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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Generic Emergent Overlays in Arbitrary Peer Identifier Spaces
July 3, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Unstructured overlay networks are driven by simple protocols that are easy to analyze and implement. The lack of structure, however, leads to weak message delivery guarantees and poor scaling....
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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Friend-to-Friend Computing: Building the Social Web at the Internet Edges
November 5, 2008, 12:00am PST
The current Social Web is centralized. Large information silos store all the users' profiles, their social links and much of the other personal data. In return for the reliable service the users...
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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More on Castor: The Scalable Secure Routing Protocol for Ad-Hoc Networks
September 9, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Wireless ad hoc networks are inherently vulnerable, as any node can disrupt the communication of potentially any other node in the network. Many solutions to this problem have been proposed. In...
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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Bandwidth-Efficient Delay-And Loss-Tolerant Overlay Routing
September 4, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Peer-To-Peer (P2P) systems are mostly deployed in heterogeneous environments with resource availability varying not only across the nodes, but also over time. If any of the shared computational,...
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A Dual-Based Method for Resource Allocation in OFDMA-SDMA Systems With Minimum Rate Constraints
October 6, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors consider multi-antenna base stations using Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) and Space Division Multiple Access (SDMA) techniques to serve single antenna users,...
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Distributed Sensor Failure Detection in Sensor Networks
September 26, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors investigate distributed sensors' failure detection in networks with a small number of defective sensors. They assume that sensors measure a smooth physical phenomenon and that...
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A Novel Relay-Aided Transmission Scheme in Cognitive Radio Networks
September 13, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In underlay cognitive radio networks, unlicensed secondary users are allowed to share the spectrum with licensed primary users when the interference induced on the primary transmission is limited....
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
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ProtoPeer: From Simulation to Live Deployment in One Step
June 11, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Simulators are a commonly used tool in peer-to-peer systems research. However, they may not be able to capture all the details of a system operating in a live network deployment. Transitioning...
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
-
White Papers
Bandwidth-Efficient Delay-And Loss-Tolerant Overlay Routing
September 4, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Peer-To-Peer (P2P) systems are mostly deployed in heterogeneous environments with resource availability varying not only across the nodes, but also over time. If any of the shared computational,...
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
-
White Papers
More on Castor: The Scalable Secure Routing Protocol for Ad-Hoc Networks
September 9, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Wireless ad hoc networks are inherently vulnerable, as any node can disrupt the communication of potentially any other node in the network. Many solutions to this problem have been proposed. In...
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
-
White Papers
Friend-to-Friend Computing: Building the Social Web at the Internet Edges
November 5, 2008, 12:00am PST
The current Social Web is centralized. Large information silos store all the users' profiles, their social links and much of the other personal data. In return for the reliable service the users...
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
-
White Papers
Generic Emergent Overlays in Arbitrary Peer Identifier Spaces
July 3, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Unstructured overlay networks are driven by simple protocols that are easy to analyze and implement. The lack of structure, however, leads to weak message delivery guarantees and poor scaling....
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
-
White Papers
Authentication-Free Fault-Tolerant Peer-to-Peer Service Provisioning
June 29, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The correct functioning of a peer-to-peer network relies on cooperative behavior of peers as service providers. Current approaches to detection and deterrence of non-cooperative behavior, such as...
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
-
White Papers
ProtoPeer: A P2P Toolkit Bridging the Gap Between Simulation and Live Deployment
March 5, 2009, 12:00am PST
Simulators are a commonly used tool in peer-to-peer systems research. However, they may not be able to capture all the details of a system operating in a live network. Transitioning from the...
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
-
White Papers
Self-Organized Fault-Tolerant Routing in Peer-to-Peer Overlays
June 23, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In sufficiently large heterogeneous overlays message loss and delays are likely to occur. This has a significant impact on overlay routing, especially on longer paths. The existing solutions to...
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
-
White Papers
Leveraging Social Networks for Increased BitTorrent Robustness
July 7, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In peer-to-peer content delivery systems, such as BitTorrent, there may exist nodes that are non-cooperative and do not contribute their upload bandwidth to the system while still downloading...
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
-
White Papers
Castor: Scalable Secure Routing for Ad Hoc Networks
March 10, 2010, 12:00am PST
Wireless ad hoc networks are inherently vulnerable, as any node can disrupt the communication of potentially any other node in the network. Many solutions to this problem have been proposed. In...
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
-
White Papers
SemCaDo: A Serendipitous Causal Discovery Algorithm for Ontology Evolution
May 27, 2011, 12:00am PDT
With the rising need to reuse the existing knowledge when learning Causal Bayesian Networks (CBNs), the ontologies can supply valuable semantic information to make further interesting discoveries...
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique
-
White Papers
Habit Formation And Fiscal Transmission In Open Economies
December 8, 2010, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors analyze the ability of an open economy version of the neoclassical model to account for the time-series evidence on fiscal policy transmission. In a first step, they...
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique
-
White Papers
Online Broadcasting With Network Coding
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Consider a source broadcasting M packets to N receivers over independent erasure channels, where perfect feedback is available from the receivers to the source, and the source is allowed to use...
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
-
White Papers
Network-Coded Broadcast: From Canonical Networks to Random Topologies
November 28, 2007, 12:00am PST
The authors consider the problem of finding the minimum number of transmissions in an ad-hoc network for all-to-all broadcasting using network coding. This paper generalizes previous results for...
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
-
White Papers
Network Coding Over Dynamically Changing Networks
November 26, 2008, 12:00am PST
The authors here advocate the case for network coding as a guiding paradigm for the operation of networks that vary in a small time frame, due to node mobility, channel variations, and varying...
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
-
White Papers
Trends In Rainfall And Economic Growth In Africa: A Neglected Cause Of The Growth Tragedy
October 25, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The authors examine the role of trends in rainfall in the poor growth performance of sub-Saharan African nations relative to other developing countries. To do so, they use a new cross-country...
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique
-
White Papers
Fingerprint Characteristic Extraction by Ridge Orientation: An Approach for a Supervised Contactless Biometric System
February 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Fingerprints are the most widely used human characteristics for the purpose of people identification. However, touch-based fingerprint systems have some drawbacks due to skin elasticity,...
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
-
White Papers
Potentials of Opportunistic Routing in Energy-Constrained Wireless Sensor Networks
November 26, 2008, 12:00am PST
The low quality of wireless links leads to perpetual packet losses. While an acknowledgment mechanism is generally used to cope with these losses, multiple retransmissions nevertheless occur....
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
-
White Papers
Local Binary Patterns as an Image Preprocessing for Face Authentication
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
One of the major problems in face authentication systems is to deal with variations in illumination. In a realistic scenario, it is very likely that the lighting condition of the probe image does...
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
-
White Papers
Are Sparse Representations Really Relevant for Image Classification?
March 24, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Recent years have seen an increasing interest in sparse representations for image classification and object recognition, probably motivated by evidence from the analysis of the primate visual...
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
-
White Papers
Tracking Games in Mobile Networks
September 15, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Users of mobile networks can change their identifiers in regions called mix zones in order to defeat the attempt of third parties to track their location. Mix zones must be deployed carefully in...
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
-
White Papers
Affordable SLAM Through the Co-Design of Hardware and Methodology
February 2, 2010, 12:00am PST
Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) is a prominent feature for autonomous robots operating in undefined environments. Application's areas such as consumer robotics appliances would...
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
-
White Papers
TwinDrivers: Semi-Automatic Derivation of Fast and Safe Hypervisor Network Drivers From Guest OS Drivers
January 6, 2009, 12:00am PST
In a virtualized environment, device drivers are often run inside a Virtual Machine (VM) rather than in the hypervisor, for reasons of safety and reduction in software engineering effort....
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
-
White Papers
Performance Profiling of Virtual Machines
January 17, 2011, 12:00am PST
Profilers based on hardware performance counters are indispensable for performance debugging of complex software systems. All modern processors feature hardware performance counters, but current...
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
-
White Papers
Lightweight Modular Staging: A Pragmatic Approach to Runtime Code Generation and Compiled DSLs
August 11, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Software engineering demands generality and abstraction, performance demands specialization and concretization. Generative programming can provide both, but developing high-quality program...
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
-
White Papers
Mapping Web Personal Learning Environments
August 7, 2009, 12:00am PDT
A recent trend in education and in web development is to build learning environment on top of web platforms which are carefully designed to host a plurality of software components (sometimes...
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
-
White Papers
From Web Data to Entities and Back
March 2, 2010, 12:00am PST
The information need of Web users is often related to their understanding and interpretation of real-world entities and their relationships. For example, some-one might be interested in...
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
-
White Papers
Towards Better Entity Resolution Techniques for Web Document Collections
January 22, 2010, 12:00am PST
As person names are non-unique, the same name on different Web pages might or might not refer to the same real-world person. This entity identification problem is one of the most challenging...
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
-
White Papers
Using Social Software for Teamwork and Collaborative Project Management in Higher Education
September 14, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper discusses the potential role of social software in supporting teamwork and collaborative project management in higher education. Based on the fact that social software has been widely...
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
-
White Papers
Autonomic SLA-Driven Provisioning for Cloud Applications
February 16, 2011, 12:00am PST
Significant achievements have been made for automated allocation of cloud resources. However, the performance of applications may be poor in peak load periods, unless their cloud resources are...
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
-
White Papers
Query-Biased Near Duplicate Web Document Detecting: Effective, Efficient and Customizable
April 30, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Near-duplicate web documents are abundant and annoying to both search service providers and end-users. Two such documents share the same primary content, but differ from each other with a minor...
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
-
White Papers
HOLLOWS: A Power-Aware Task Scheduler for Energy Harvesting Sensor Nodes
September 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Energy Harvesting Sensor Nodes (EHSNs) have stringent low-energy consumption requirements, but they need to concurrently execute several types of tasks (processing, sensing, actuation, etc.)....
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
-
White Papers
Thermal-Aware Compilation for Register Window-Based Embedded Processors
September 21, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The development of compiler-based mechanisms to optimize the thermal profile of large register files to improve the processor reliability has become an important issue. Thermal hotspots have been...
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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White Papers
Robust Infants Face Tracking Using Active Appearance Models: A Mixed-State CONDENSATION Approach
September 13, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In this paper a new extension of the CONDENSATION algorithm, with application to infants face tracking, will be introduced. In this paper the authors address the problem of tracking a face and its...
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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Tracking of Mobile Devices Through Bluetooth Contacts
October 7, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors investigate if it is possible to reconstruct a mobile phone's mobility using its Bluetooth contacts with other mobile devices, some of which are equipped with GPS receivers. The data...
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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An Adaptive System for Real-Time Scalable Video Streaming With End-to-End QoS Control
February 25, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper presents a real-time adaptive video streaming system based on the latest standardized video codec H.264/MPEG-4 AVC scalable extension (SVC). The system provides a full MPEG-21 media...
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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State Exploration of Scala Actor Programs
March 13, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The growing use of multi-core and networked computing systems is increasing the importance of developing reliable parallel and distributed code. Unfortunately, developing and testing such code is...
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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