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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Concurrent Object-Oriented Development with Behavioral Design Patterns
December 21, 2012, 12:00am PST
The development of concurrent applications is challenging because of the complexity of concurrent designs and the hazards of concurrent programming. Architectural modeling using the Unified...
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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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Security Margin Evaluation of SHA-3 Contest Finalists Through SAT-Based Attacks (Extension)
July 26, 2012, 12:00am PDT
In 2007, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced a public contest aiming at the selection of a new standard for a cryptographic hash function. In this paper, the...
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Comprehensive Evaluation of High-Speed and Medium-Speed Implementations of Five SHA-3 Finalists Using Xilinx and Altera FPGAs
October 31, 2012, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors present a comprehensive comparison of all Round 3 SHA-3 candidates and the current standard SHA-2 from the point of view of hardware performance in modern FPGAs. Each...
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The Virtual Apprentice
June 14, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Over the past couple of decades, virtual humans have been attracting more and more attention. Many applications including, video games, movies, and various training and tutoring systems have...
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Crowd Distribution and Location Preference
March 5, 2012, 12:00am PST
Most crowd simulators focus on navigation and agents flow. In this paper, the authors present another perspective which concentrates on the overall distribution of virtual agents and uses...
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Populations with Purpose
August 23, 2011, 12:00am PDT
There are currently a number of animation researchers that focus on simulating virtual crowds, but few are attempting to simulate virtual populations. Virtual crowd simulations tend to depict a...
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CAROSA: A Tool for Authoring NPCs
August 26, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Certainly Non-Player Characters (NPCs) can add richness to a game environment. A world without people (or at least humanoids) seems barren and artificial. People are often a major part of the...
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Constraints-Based Complex Behavior in Rich Environments
July 4, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In order to create a system capable of planning complex, constraints-based behaviors for an agent operating in a rich environment, two complementary frameworks were integrated. Linear Temporal...
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Functional Crowds
April 29, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Most crowd simulation research either focuses on navigating characters through an environment while avoiding collisions or on simulating very large crowds. The authors' work focuses on creating...
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An Empirical Investigation Into the Security of Phone Features in SIP-Based VoIP Systems
December 19, 2009, 12:00am PST
Phone features, e.g., 911 call, voicemail, and Do Not Disturb, are critical and necessary for all deployed VoIP systems. In this paper, the authors empirically investigate the security of these...
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Billing Attacks on SIP-Based VoIP Systems
January 1, 2013, 12:00am PST
Billing is fundamental to any commercial VoIP services and it has direct impact on each individual VoIP subscriber. One of the most basic requirements of any VoIP billing function is that it must...
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Out-of-the-Box Monitoring of VM-Based High-Interaction Honeypots
January 1, 2013, 12:00am PST
Honeypot has been an invaluable tool for the detection and analysis of network-based attacks by either human intruders or automated malware in the wild. The insights obtained by deploying...
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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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Opportunistic Spectrum Sharing With Multiple Cochannel Primary Transmitters
February 20, 2009, 12:00am PST
The authors present a distributed, collaborative algorithm to enable opportunistic spectrum access for cognitive radios in the presence of multiple cochannel transmitters. A spectrum hole...
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Encryption-Based Policy Enforcement for Cloud Storage
June 27, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Nowadays, users are more and more exploiting external storage and connectivity for sharing and disseminating user-generated content. To this aim, they can benefit of the services offered by...
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Informed Trading Before Analyst Downgrades: Evidence From Short Sellers
April 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper studies short-selling prior to the release of analyst downgrades in a sample of 670 downgrades of NASDAQ stocks between 2000 and 2001. The authors document abnormal levels of...
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"Out-of-the-Box" Monitoring of VM-Based High-Interaction Honeypots
December 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
Honeypot has been an invaluable tool for the detection and analysis of network-based attacks by either human intruders or automated malware in the wild. The insights obtained by deploying...
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An Empirical Study on Variants of TCP Over AODV Routing Protocol in MANET
September 5, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The cardinal concept of TCP development was to carry data within the network where network congestion plays a vital role to cause packet loss. On the other hand, there are several other reasons to...
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CapMan: Capability-Based Defense Against Multi-Path Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks in MANET
April 26, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents a capability-based security mechanism called CapMan. The authors' approach is designed to prevent Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks on wireless communications, particularly...
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Capacity Bounds in Random Wireless Networks
September 7, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors consider a receiving node, located at the origin, and a Poisson point process that models the locations of the desired transmitter as well as the interferers. Interference is known to...
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Measurement Clustering Criteria for Localization of Multiple Transmitters
March 2, 2009, 12:00am PST
The authors consider the problem of localizing multiple co-channel transmitters belonging to a licensed or primary network using signal strength measurements taken by a group of unlicensed or...
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Spectrum Sensing With SS-AOA Measurements and Directional Transmissions
May 8, 2009, 12:00am PDT
For successful Opportunistic Spectrum Access (OSA) using spatial information, accurate localization is a crucial first step. In this paper, the authors consider a group of unlicensed (secondary)...
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Estimation of Maximum Interference-Free Transmit Power Level for Opportunistic Spectrum Access
August 4, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors consider a scenario in which frequency agile radios opportunistically share a fixed spectrum resource with a set of primary nodes. They develop a collaborative scheme for a group of...
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Hidden Markov Process Based Dynamic Spectrum Access for Cognitive Radio
February 23, 2011, 12:00am PST
Cognitive radio is an emerging technology for sensing and dynamic access of spectrum in mobile radio environments. It aims at dynamically allocating unused bandwidth among secondary users without...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Building an On-Line Geospatial Analysis System With AJAX and Web Services
April 24, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Asynchronous JavaScript And XML (AJAX), and other new Web technologies have revolutionized the use of geospatial Web applications. The GeoBrain...
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High Level Fusion and Predictive Situational Awareness With Probabilistic Ontologies
January 26, 2010, 12:00am PST
The change of focus in modern warfare from individual platforms to the network has caused a concomitant shift in supporting concepts and technologies. Greater emphasis is placed on...
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RandSys: Thwarting Code Injection Attacks With System Service Interface Randomization
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Code injection attacks are a top threat to today's Internet. With zero-day attacks on the rise, randomization techniques have been introduced to diversify software and operation systems of...
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How to Implement National Information Sharing Strategy: Detailed Elements of the Evolutionary Management Approach Required
May 7, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Data sharing is today's principal Information Technology challenge. All sectors - commercial, government, academic, and military - seek improved information exchange to achieve operational...
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Towards a VMM-Based Usage Control Framework for OS Kernel Integrity Protection
June 22, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Protecting kernel integrity is one of the fundamental security objectives in building a trustworthy Operating System (OS). For this end, a variety of approaches and systems have been proposed and...
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Query Consolidation: Interpreting a Set of Independent Queries Using a Multidatabase Architecture in the Reverse Direction
November 30, 2007, 12:00am PST
This paper introduces the problem of query consolidation, which seeks to interpret a set of disparate queries submitted to independent databases with a single "Global" query. This problem has...
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Scheduling Weighted Packets With Deadlines Over a Fading Channel
January 29, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper considers scheduling weighted packets with time constraints over a fading channel. Packets arrive at the transmitter in an online manner. Each packet has a value and a hard deadline by...
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Ruminate: A Scalable Architecture for Deep Network Analysis
December 13, 2010, 12:00am PST
Traditionally, Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS) inspect packet header and payload data for malicious content. While each system is different, most NIDS perform limited analysis on...
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Detection of Communities and Bridges in Weighted Networks
October 21, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Traditional graph-based clustering methods group vertices into discrete non-intersecting clusters under the assumption that each vertex can belong to only a single cluster. On the other hand,...
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Energy Management for Time-Critical Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks
August 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
As Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) evolve they will be increasingly relied to support time-critical monitoring and control activities. Further, many CPSs that utilizing Wireless Sensor Networking...
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Turned Off Or Turned Out? Campaign Advertising, Information, And Voting
January 10, 2008, 12:00am PST
The author presents the results from laboratory experimental elections in which candidates can choose to provide informative advertisements and voting is voluntary. They also compare...
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GeoInformation Computing & Cyberinfrastructure
January 22, 2010, 12:00am PST
Geographic information processing is expanding in several dimensions in the past decades: 1) Earth observation, ground sensing, and other data collection techniques accelerated exponentially the...
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Dynamic Cloud Management System for Monitoring and Managing Services
July 20, 2010, 12:00am PDT
As cloud computing becomes more widely adopted, the size of cloud systems will necessarily become larger. In recent years, large companies, such as Google and Amazon, have become reliant on...
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HyperCheck: A Hardware-Assisted Integrity Monitor
July 3, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Over the past few years, virtualization has been employed to environments ranging from densely populated cloud computing clusters to home desktop computers. Security researchers embraced Virtual...
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A Virtualization Architecture for In-Depth Kernel Isolation
September 11, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Recent advances in virtualization technologies have sparked a renewed interest in the use of kernel and process virtualization as a security mechanism to enforce resource isolation and management....
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SMP Virtualization Performance Evaluation
April 12, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Virtualization is a technology used to partition the resources of a physical computer into Virtual Machines (VMs). This is often done with the intent of increasing the utilization of a physical...
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Providing Mobile Users' Anonymity in Hybrid Network
July 3, 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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Analysis of Wireless Network Security Protocols
December 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
Wireless networks have become extremely widespread. However, providing security for these networks has proven to be a challenge due to the problems inherent with the way information is...
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Analysis of Virus Spread in Wireless Sensor Networks: An Epidemic Model
August 24, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors of this paper study the potential threat for virus spread in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Using epidemic theory, the authors proposed a new model, called...
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Vulnerability Analysis and Management of an Internet Firewall
April 23, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Firewalls protect a trusted network from an untrusted network by filtering traffic according to a specified security policy. A diverse set of firewalls is being used today based on the security...
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Enhancing Security and Usability for Bluetooth Discovery and Pairing
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper describes the current Bluetooth landscape, describing what Bluetooth is and does, as well as listing the security issues associated with it. Additionally, this paper attempts to address...
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An Integrated Multi-Task Inductive Database and Decision Support System VINLEN: An Initial Implementation and First Results
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
A brief review of the current research on VINLEN multitask inductive database and decision support system is presented. VINLEN integrates a wide range of knowledge generation operators that given...
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Performance of an Adaptive Routing Overlay Under Dynamic Link Impairments
July 13, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Authors propose an adaptive software routing overlay to improve the performance of TCP/IP-based internets over links with dynamic impairments. The routing overlay adaptively distributes traffic...
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