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Using Ajax for Desktop-Like Geospatial Web Application Development
May 29, 2009, 12:00am PDT
As one of key components of Web 2.0 architecture, Ajax brings web applications with more responsive, interactive, intuitive and dynamic features. With its rich combination of technologies, Ajax...
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Do You Reward And Punish In The Way You Think Others Expect You To?
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper addresses three questions: When deciding on whether to reward or punish someone, how does how you think others expect you to behave affect your decision? Does it depend upon whether...
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Does Deceptive Advertising Reduce Political Participation? Theory And Evidence
August 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors examine the effect of deceptive advertising on voting decisions in elections. They model two candidate elections in which voters are uncertain about candidates' attributes; and...
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What You Don't Know Won't Hurt You: A Laboratory Analysis Of Betrayal Aversion
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Trust promotes economic growth and development, and previous research has shed much light on reciprocity and other motives for trusting decisions. Why people choose not to trust has received...
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Emotion Expression And Fairness In Economic Exchange
November 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Research in economics and psychology has established that informal sanctions, particularly expressions of negative emotion, can enforce fair economic exchange. However, scholars are only beginning...
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Does Antitrust Enforcement In High Tech Markets Benefit Consumers? Stock Price Evidence From FTC V. Intel
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Antitrust enforcement efforts in the United States and abroad have been ramped up in high-tech industries, rekindling stale and largely unresolved debates concerning the appropriate role of...
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Deliberative Democracy And Political Ignorance
October 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Advocates of "Deliberative democracy" want citizens to actively participate in serious dialogue over political issues, not merely go to the polls every few years. Unfortunately, these ideals don't...
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Employee "Free" Choice In The Mirror Of Liberty, Fairness And Social Welfare
October 5, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The publication of Richard Epstein's book, THE CASE AGAINST THE EMPLOYEE FREE CHOICE ACT provides an opportunity to reconsider the movement to displace the regime of judge-made law that had...
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Getting It Right The First Time: Belief Elicitation With Novice Participants
April 9, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The auction design literature makes clear that theoretically equivalent mechanisms can perform very differently in practice. Though of equal importance, much less is known about the empirical...
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Return Value Predictability Profiles for Self-Healing
September 8, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Current embryonic attempts at software self - healing produce mechanisms that are often oblivious to the semantics of the code they supervise. The authors believe that, in order to help inform...
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Effective Outlier Detection in Science Data Streams
May 21, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The growth in data volumes from all aspects of space and earth science (satellites, sensors, observatory monitoring systems, and simulations) requires more effective knowledge discovery and...
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Quantitatively Measuring Object-Oriented Couplings
March 26, 2008, 12:00am PDT
One key to several quality factors of software is the way components are connected. Software coupling can be used to estimate a number of quality factors, including maintainability, complexity,...
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Model-Based Covert Timing Channels: Automated Modeling and Evasion
June 16, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The exploration of advanced covert timing channel design is important to understand and defend against covert timing channels. In this paper, the authors introduce a new class of covert timing...
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Pushback for Overlay Networks: Protecting Against Malicious Insiders
April 11, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Peer-To-Peer (P2P) overlay networks are a flexible way of creating decentralized services. Although resilient to external Denial of Service attacks, overlay networks can be rendered inoperable by...
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New Application: What Is the Network Impact
April 23, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Do one know what the impact of the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) deployment is to the operational network? During deployment, the network requirements for the application are discovered....
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Grid Enabled Service Infrastructure (GESI)
May 6, 2008, 12:00am PDT
At the 2007 Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium Conference on Utility Computing, Grids and Virtualization, the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Networks & Information Integration...
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Command and Control Common Semantic Core Required to Enable Net-Centric Operations
May 13, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Commanders and decision makers require timely and accurate information. The power of information and information sharing are fundamental tenets of the ongoing defense transformation. Making...
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Cognitive Collapse: Recognizing and Addressing the Hidden Threat in Collaborative Technologies
May 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The growing application of collaborative technologies to C4ISR greatly increases communication and coordination, but poses a hidden threat. When the same set of people interact frequently with one...
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Dynamic Competition, Innovation And Strategic Financing
July 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper models the interactions among product market innovation, product market competition, and corporate financing decisions in the context of a dynamic duopoly. One competitor faces an...
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Usage Control: A Vision for Next Generation Access Control
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The term Usage Control (UCON) is a generalization of access control to cover obligations, conditions, continuity (Ongoing controls) and mutability. Traditionally, access control has dealt only...
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Enforcement Architecture and Implementation Model for Group-Centric Information Sharing
January 6, 2011, 12:00am PST
A fundamental requirement for Secure Information Sharing (SIS) is that protection needs to extend to clients. Trusted Computing Technology provides a hardware root of trust through the Trusted...
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Innovation And Social Capital: A Cross-Country Investigation
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper explores the impact of social capital on innovation by constructing a more general measure of social capital indicator consisting of generalized and institutional trust, associational...
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Institutional Influences On Strategic Entrepreneurial Behaviours
October 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The purpose of this paper is to examine the existence of cross-level moderating effects between national appropriability conditions, individual level predictors and entrepreneurial growth...
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QIS-XML: A Metadata Specification for Quantum Information Science
December 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
While Quantum Information Science (QIS) is still in its infancy, the ability for quantum based hardware or computers to communicate and integrate with their classical counterparts will be a major...
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Active and Passive Leadership in Virtual Collaboration Networks
June 2, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The tasks of leadership in large, multi-divisional organizations have always been complex, but new computer-mediated technologies for communication and information sharing offer promise to improve...
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TopBT: A Topology-Aware and Infrastructure-Independent BitTorrent Client
March 27, 2010, 12:00am PDT
BitTorrent (BT) has carried out a significant and continuously increasing portion of Internet traffic. While several designs have been recently proposed and implemented to improve the resource...
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Controlled Epidemic Routing for Multicasting in Delay Tolerant Networks
January 26, 2009, 12:00am PST
Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs) are a class of networks that experience frequent and long-duration partitions due to sparse distribution of nodes. DTN multicasting is a desirable feature for...
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A Simulation Study of Common Mobility Models for Opportunistic Networks
January 26, 2009, 12:00am PST
Understanding mobility characteristics is important for the design and analysis of routing schemes for Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANETs). This is especially true for mobile opportunistic networks...
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Analysis of Core-Assisted Routing in Opportunistic Networks
January 26, 2009, 12:00am PST
Opportunistic Networks (ONs) are a newly emerging type of Delay Tolerant Network (DTN) systems that opportunistically exploit unplanned contacts among nodes to share information. As with all DTN...
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The Impact of the Mobility Model on Delay Tolerant Networking Performance Analysis
January 26, 2009, 12:00am PST
Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs) are a class of networks that experience frequent and long-duration partitions due to sparse distribution of nodes. The topological impairments experienced within a...
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Designing Quality of Service Based Multimedia Systems Using the Unified Modeling Language
January 26, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper addresses the usage of UML for requirement specification and design of multimedia systems. It shows how modular specifications of components used in QoS cognizant services increase...
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Analytical Techniques for Performance Analysis of Multi-Copy Routing Schemes in Delay Tolerant Networks
June 11, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs) are a class of networks that experience frequent and long-duration partitions due to sparse distribution of nodes. The topological impairments experienced within a...
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The Impact of Intercontact Time Within Opportunistic Networks: Protocol Implications and Mobility Models
March 11, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Opportunistic networking, where node mobility is utilized to achieve message delivery, has become an important class of mobile ad hoc networking. A critical component of performance analysis for...
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Modeling Dimensions of Self-Adaptive Software Systems
February 13, 2009, 12:00am PST
It is commonly agreed that a self-adaptive software system is one that can modify itself at run-time due to changes in the system, its requirements, or the environment in which it is deployed. A...
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On the Role of Architectural Styles in Improving the Adaptation Support of Middleware Platforms
June 16, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Modern middleware platforms provide the applications deployed on top of them with facilities for their adaptation. However, the level of adaptation support provided by the state-of-the-art...
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Context-Driven Optimization of Mobile Service-Oriented Systems for Improving Their Resilience
May 7, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Mobile software systems are characterized by their highly dynamic and unpredictable execution context. Such systems are permeating a number of domains where the systems operate in constantly...
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Price Dynamics In Energy Spot And Futures Markets: The Role Of Inventory And Weather
October 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines the role of fundamentals in inter-temporal pricing relations in natural gas and heating oil spot and futures markets. Using non-linear error correction models with bivariate...
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GPU-Euler: Sequence Assembly Using GPGPU
April 4, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Advances in sequencing technologies have revolutionized the field of genomics by providing cost effective and high throughput solutions. In this paper, the authors develop a parallel sequence...
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NetGator: Malware Detection Through Program Interactive Proofs
June 23, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Exfiltration of data using internet-borne attacks has become a credible threat for organization and enterprises. History has shown that crafted targeted attacks and zero-day malware are capable of...
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Guided Exploration of the Architectural Solution Space in the Face of Uncertainty
May 11, 2011, 12:00am PDT
A system's early architectural decisions impact its properties (e.g., scalability, dependability) as well as stakeholder concerns (e.g., cost, time to delivery). Choices made early on are both...
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Network Security Risks Associated With IaaS in a Shared Environment
July 18, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Cloud computing offers extraordinary benefits and efficiencies to organizations. Organizations can now purchase computing resources on an as-needed basis without the overhead and costs of managing...
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Unfolding The Allegory Behind Market Communication And Social Error And Correction
September 16, 2010, 12:00am PDT
One aspect of the present paper is to draw out the Adam Smith in Friedrich Hayek. The author suggests that common economic talk of market communication, market error and correction, and policy...
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A Hybrid Enforcement Model for Group-Centric Secure Information Sharing
June 10, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Group-centric Secure Information Sharing (g-SIS) is motivated by the need to dynamically share information amongst a set of authorized users for a specific purpose. Authorized group users may read...
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Towards a Framework for Group-Centric Secure Collaboration
October 8, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The concept of groups is a natural aspect of most collaboration scenarios. Group-centric Secure Information Sharing models (g-SIS) have been recently proposed in which users and objects are...
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Artificial Malware Immunization Based on Dynamically Assigned Sense of Self
September 23, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Computer malwares (e.g., botnets, rootkits and spyware) are one of the most serious threats to all computers and networks. Most malwares conduct their malicious actions via hijacking the control...
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VirusMeter: Preventing Your Cellphone From Spies
July 12, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Due to the rapid advancement of mobile communication technology, mobile devices nowadays can support a variety of data services that are not traditionally available. With the growing popularity of...
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Improving the Reliability of Mobile Software Systems Through Continuous Analysis and Proactive Reconfiguration
February 12, 2009, 12:00am PST
Most of the current software reliability analysis approaches are geared to traditional desktop software systems, which are relatively stable and static throughout their execution. In this paper,...
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Providing Mobile Users' Anonymity in Hybrid Networks
July 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors present a novel hybrid communication protocol that guarantees mobile users' k-anonymity against a wide-range of adversaries by exploiting the capability of handheld devices to connect...
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Piecewise Planar City 3D Modeling From Street View Panoramic Sequences
April 29, 2009, 12:00am PDT
City environments often lack textured areas, contain repetitive structures, strong lighting changes and therefore are very difficult for standard 3D modeling pipelines. The authors present a novel...
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Securing Security Policies in Autonomic Computing Systems
April 27, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Protecting valuable enterprise assets, such as data, computer systems, and networks is becoming increasingly complex especially in autonomic computing systems due to their reduced reliance on...
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GeoMason: GeoSpatial Support for MASON
November 17, 2010, 12:00am PST
MASON is a free, open-source Java-based discrete event multi-agent simulation toolkit that has been used to model network intrusions, unmanned aerial vehicles, nomadic migrations, and...
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Life After Self-Healing: Assessing Post-Repair Program Behavior
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
One promising technique for defending software systems against vulnerabilities involve the use of self-healing. Such efforts, however, carry a great deal of risk because they largely bypass the...
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Grid-VirtuE: A Layered Architecture for Grid Virtual Enterprises
May 22, 2007, 12:00am PDT
A grid virtual enterprise is a community of independent enterprises concerned with a particular sector of the economy. Its members (nodes) are Small or Medium size Enterprises (SME) engaged in...
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Digging Digg : Comment Mining, Popularity Prediction, and Social Network Analysis
May 29, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Using comment information available from Digg the authors define a co-participation network between users. They focus on the analysis of this implicit network, and study the behavioral...
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A Control Architecture for Autonomous Mobile Robotics
February 18, 2009, 12:00am PST
The field of mobile robotics is on the forefront of robotics research around the world. Control architectures for complex autonomous mobile robots have largely settled on hybrid architectures for...
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Predicting Network Response Times Using Social Information
December 3, 2010, 12:00am PST
Social networks and discussion boards have become a significant outlet where people communicate and express their opinion freely. Although the social networks themselves are usually...
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Which Should We Try First? Ranking Information Resources Through Query Classification
March 8, 2011, 12:00am PST
Users seeking information in distributed environments of large numbers of disparate information resources are often burdened with the task of repeating their queries for each and every resource....
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Guided Exploration of the Architectural Solution Space in the Face of Uncertainty
May 11, 2011, 12:00am PDT
A system's early architectural decisions impact its properties (e.g., scalability, dependability) as well as stakeholder concerns (e.g., cost, time to delivery). Choices made early on are both...
Provided by George Mason University
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White Papers
NetGator: Malware Detection Through Program Interactive Proofs
June 23, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Exfiltration of data using internet-borne attacks has become a credible threat for organization and enterprises. History has shown that crafted targeted attacks and zero-day malware are capable of...
Provided by George Mason University
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White Papers
GPU-Euler: Sequence Assembly Using GPGPU
April 4, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Advances in sequencing technologies have revolutionized the field of genomics by providing cost effective and high throughput solutions. In this paper, the authors develop a parallel sequence...
Provided by George Mason University
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White Papers
Price Dynamics In Energy Spot And Futures Markets: The Role Of Inventory And Weather
October 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines the role of fundamentals in inter-temporal pricing relations in natural gas and heating oil spot and futures markets. Using non-linear error correction models with bivariate...
Provided by George Mason University
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White Papers
Context-Driven Optimization of Mobile Service-Oriented Systems for Improving Their Resilience
May 7, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Mobile software systems are characterized by their highly dynamic and unpredictable execution context. Such systems are permeating a number of domains where the systems operate in constantly...
Provided by George Mason University
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White Papers
On the Role of Architectural Styles in Improving the Adaptation Support of Middleware Platforms
June 16, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Modern middleware platforms provide the applications deployed on top of them with facilities for their adaptation. However, the level of adaptation support provided by the state-of-the-art...
Provided by George Mason University
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White Papers
Modeling Dimensions of Self-Adaptive Software Systems
February 13, 2009, 12:00am PST
It is commonly agreed that a self-adaptive software system is one that can modify itself at run-time due to changes in the system, its requirements, or the environment in which it is deployed. A...
Provided by George Mason University
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White Papers
The Impact of Intercontact Time Within Opportunistic Networks: Protocol Implications and Mobility Models
March 11, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Opportunistic networking, where node mobility is utilized to achieve message delivery, has become an important class of mobile ad hoc networking. A critical component of performance analysis for...
Provided by George Mason University
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White Papers
Analytical Techniques for Performance Analysis of Multi-Copy Routing Schemes in Delay Tolerant Networks
June 11, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs) are a class of networks that experience frequent and long-duration partitions due to sparse distribution of nodes. The topological impairments experienced within a...
Provided by George Mason University
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White Papers
Designing Quality of Service Based Multimedia Systems Using the Unified Modeling Language
January 26, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper addresses the usage of UML for requirement specification and design of multimedia systems. It shows how modular specifications of components used in QoS cognizant services increase...
Provided by George Mason University
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The Impact of the Mobility Model on Delay Tolerant Networking Performance Analysis
January 26, 2009, 12:00am PST
Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs) are a class of networks that experience frequent and long-duration partitions due to sparse distribution of nodes. The topological impairments experienced within a...
Provided by George Mason University
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White Papers
Analysis of Core-Assisted Routing in Opportunistic Networks
January 26, 2009, 12:00am PST
Opportunistic Networks (ONs) are a newly emerging type of Delay Tolerant Network (DTN) systems that opportunistically exploit unplanned contacts among nodes to share information. As with all DTN...
Provided by George Mason University
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White Papers
A Simulation Study of Common Mobility Models for Opportunistic Networks
January 26, 2009, 12:00am PST
Understanding mobility characteristics is important for the design and analysis of routing schemes for Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANETs). This is especially true for mobile opportunistic networks...
Provided by George Mason University
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White Papers
Controlled Epidemic Routing for Multicasting in Delay Tolerant Networks
January 26, 2009, 12:00am PST
Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs) are a class of networks that experience frequent and long-duration partitions due to sparse distribution of nodes. DTN multicasting is a desirable feature for...
Provided by George Mason University
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White Papers
TopBT: A Topology-Aware and Infrastructure-Independent BitTorrent Client
March 27, 2010, 12:00am PDT
BitTorrent (BT) has carried out a significant and continuously increasing portion of Internet traffic. While several designs have been recently proposed and implemented to improve the resource...
Provided by George Mason University
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White Papers
Active and Passive Leadership in Virtual Collaboration Networks
June 2, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The tasks of leadership in large, multi-divisional organizations have always been complex, but new computer-mediated technologies for communication and information sharing offer promise to improve...
Provided by George Mason University
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White Papers
QIS-XML: A Metadata Specification for Quantum Information Science
December 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
While Quantum Information Science (QIS) is still in its infancy, the ability for quantum based hardware or computers to communicate and integrate with their classical counterparts will be a major...
Provided by George Mason University
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Institutional Influences On Strategic Entrepreneurial Behaviours
October 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The purpose of this paper is to examine the existence of cross-level moderating effects between national appropriability conditions, individual level predictors and entrepreneurial growth...
Provided by George Mason University
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Innovation And Social Capital: A Cross-Country Investigation
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper explores the impact of social capital on innovation by constructing a more general measure of social capital indicator consisting of generalized and institutional trust, associational...
Provided by George Mason University
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White Papers
Enforcement Architecture and Implementation Model for Group-Centric Information Sharing
January 6, 2011, 12:00am PST
A fundamental requirement for Secure Information Sharing (SIS) is that protection needs to extend to clients. Trusted Computing Technology provides a hardware root of trust through the Trusted...
Provided by George Mason University
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White Papers
Usage Control: A Vision for Next Generation Access Control
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The term Usage Control (UCON) is a generalization of access control to cover obligations, conditions, continuity (Ongoing controls) and mutability. Traditionally, access control has dealt only...
Provided by George Mason University
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White Papers
Dynamic Competition, Innovation And Strategic Financing
July 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper models the interactions among product market innovation, product market competition, and corporate financing decisions in the context of a dynamic duopoly. One competitor faces an...
Provided by George Mason University
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White Papers
Cognitive Collapse: Recognizing and Addressing the Hidden Threat in Collaborative Technologies
May 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The growing application of collaborative technologies to C4ISR greatly increases communication and coordination, but poses a hidden threat. When the same set of people interact frequently with one...
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