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Auditor Capacity Stress And Audit Quality: Market-Based Evidence From Andersen's Indictment
July 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The indictment of Arthur Andersen by the Department of Justice in March 2002 was a major shock to the audit industry. An unprecedented migration of clients from Andersen to other, mostly Big-Four,...
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Efficient Alarm Management in Optical Networks
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
As the capacity of optical transport networks increases, rapid fault identification and localization become increasingly important. These problems are more challenging than in traditional...
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Survivability for All-Optical Network Against Optical Attacks
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The use of optical technology, in particular Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM), has revolutionized the transmission of voice and data. An enormous and easily accessible bandwidth is available...
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Hardware-Aware Communication Protocols in Low Energy Wireless Sensor Networks
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
As the energy consumption in sensor nodes is dominated by the radio transmission/reception circuitry, communication protocols must be designed for economy in radio communications. Sensor nodes are...
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Innovation Project Participants Interaction Optimization Models
January 28, 2010, 12:00am PST
Based on the game theory principles and approaches, this paper suggests mathematical and computer simulation models of innovation process participants interaction to effectively stimulate...
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Research Networks As Infrastructure For Knowledge Diffusion In European Regions
November 29, 2007, 12:00am PST
This paper concentrates on the role of research network infrastructure in fostering the dissemination of innovation-related knowledge. It examines the structure of collaborative networks and of...
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Alternate Multihop Routing in Limited Reconfigurable Optical Networks
April 3, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, authors investigate the performance of limited reconfigurable optical networks when multihopping is used. Multihopping is achieved by dropping a wavelength at an intermediate node...
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Developing ERP Systems Success Model For The Construction Industry
February 13, 2009, 12:00am PST
Recently, a significant number of major construction companies embarked on the implementation of integrated information technology solutions such as enterprise resource planning ERP systems to...
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Electricity Transmission Sector In Brazil - Analysis Of The Auctions' Results And The Public And Private Firms' Costs
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
In Brazil, most of the electricity used by households and industries is supplied by hydropower plants. In general these plants are built on rivers with natural waterfalls that are usually very far...
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A Reinforcement Learning-based Approach For Spontaneous Service Emergence In Pervasive Computing Environments
November 7, 2007, 12:00am PST
In this paper, a reinforcement learning approach based on the creation of affinity relationships between users having similar preferences and interests is presented. This approach suits pervasive...
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Mobile Learning: The Beginning of the End of Classroom Learning
October 24, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Mobile learning has evolved from electronic learning, which has evolved from distance learning. Barriers previously available for mobile learning have now all but disappeared, and the number of...
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Protection and Restoration From Link Failures in DWDM Networks: A Cross-Layer Study
February 26, 2008, 12:00am PST
Protection against failure in high bandwidth optical networks can prevent significant potential losses of data but at the same time it requires a considerable fraction of the network resources to...
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CAP: A Context-Aware Privacy Protection System for Location-Based Services
March 21, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors address issues related to privacy protection in Location-Based Services (LBS). Most existing research in this field either requires a trusted third-party or uses oblivious protocols...
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The Digital Marauder's Map: A New Threat to Location Privacy
March 27, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The Marauder's Map is a magical map in J. K. Rowling's fantasy series, "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban". It shows all moving objects within the "Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and...
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3DLoc2: Three Dimensional Localization and Locking Toolkits for Tracing Anonymous Wireless Criminals
August 31, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Network forensics plays a crucial role for public safety and homeland security. A critical challenge, however, is the fact that criminals may leverage the open wireless networks provided by many...
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Anonymity And Individual Risk
August 31, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Competitive equilibria in adverse selection economies with private information are generally studied in models with a market structure that has risk neutral firms, market segmentation and contract...
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Architecture and Algorithms for Distributed Rule Management and Processing
August 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Many distributed computing environments are based on the paradigms of peer-to-peer networks and grid-based computing. These environments tend to be structurally dynamic but with volatile resource...
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Using the PGAS Programming Paradigm for Biological Sequence Alignment on a Chip Multi-Threading Architecture
June 16, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The Partitioned Global Address Space (PGAS) programming paradigm offers ease-of-use in expressing parallelism through a global shared address space while emphasizing performance by providing...
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Short-Run Pain, Long-Run Gain: Financial Liberalization And Stock Market Cycles
December 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
The views on financial liberalization are quite conflictive. Many argue that it triggers financial bubbles and crises. Others claim that financial liberalization allows markets to function...
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Two Hundred Years Of Financial Integration: Latin America Since Independence
August 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The author collects a new database on Latin America's international issuance from 1820 to 1931 in the major financial centers of that time: London, Paris, Berlin, Frankfurt, and New York. This...
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Cross-Layer RWA in Translucent Optical Networks
May 24, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM)-based optical networks are ideal candidates for core backbone networks because of their ability to carry large amounts of traffic. Optical amplification has...
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Software Selection based on Quantitative Security Risk Assessment
November 14, 2012, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors present a software product evaluation method using such a quantitative security risk assessment model. This method utilizes prior research in quantitative security risk...
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Improving Hybrid FSO/RF Network Reliability Through Transceiver Reconfiguration
November 21, 2012, 12:00am PST
Despite the increasing popularity of Free-Space Optics (FSO) in wireless mesh networks, reliability is still a major concern. Due to the strong dependence of FSO link availability on weather...
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Model based Testing for Software Systems: An Application of Markov Modulated Markov Process
May 1, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Software systems require the validation of design features through regression testing. Two primary challenges in system validation are ensuring that test suites reflect actual system usage, and...
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Enterprise-Ready Virtual Cloud Pools: Vision, Opportunities and Challenges
June 26, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Cloud computing platforms such as Amazon EC2 provide customers with flexible, on-demand resources at low cost. However, while existing offerings are useful for providing basic computation and...
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Joint VM Placement and Routing for Data Center Traffic Engineering
January 14, 2012, 12:00am PST
Today's data centers need efficient traffic management to improve resource utilization in their networks. In this paper, the authors study a joint tenant (e.g., server or virtual machine)...
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The International Anti-Money Laundering And Combating The Financing Of Terrorism Regulatory Strategy: A Critical Analysis Of Compliance Determinants In International Law
August 10, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Concerns about the risks Money Laundering (ML) and Terrorist Financing (TF) present to the stability of the international financial system have resurfaced in the context of the liquidity problems...
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Legal Compliance And Korea Financial Services Market: Strategic Approach
May 2, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The purpose of this paper is to improve the compliance level in the Korean financial services market by proposing a more systematic approach to economic crimes. As one of the most important...
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Comment Letter To The U.S. Treasury Department Concerning The Regulatory Structure For Financial Institutions
December 7, 2007, 12:00am PST
Thank you for the opportunity to submit these comments in connection with the Treasury Department's consideration of proposals for changes in the current structure of regulation for financial...
Provided by George Washington University Law School
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Reforming Financial Regulation To Address The Too-Big-To-Fail Problem
October 28, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The ongoing financial crisis - widely viewed as the worst since the Great Depression1 - has inflicted tremendous damage on financial markets and economies around the world. The crisis has revealed...
Provided by George Washington University Law School
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RFC: A Robust and Fast Rate Control Scheme in IEEE 802.11 Wireless Networks
July 2, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors study the rate adaptation problem in IEEE 802.11 based wireless networks. The majority of existing rate control schemes are based on a well believed intuition that data...
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Utility-Based Load Balancing in WLAN/UMTS Internetworking Systems
July 20, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The complementary characteristics of 3G cellular networks (such as UMTS) and IEEE's 802.11 Wireless LANs (WLANs) have stimulated intensive research efforts to integrate UMTS and WLAN networks. In...
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Providing Strict Quality of Service in HSDPA for Real Time Services
June 14, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Increasing demand for high data-rate real time services has led to the use of shared channels in the forward link for real-time services in 3G wireless networks, such as HSDPA. Strict and...
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Virtual Price Based Policy Enforcement for Access Selection and Vertical Handover in Multi-Access Networks
September 19, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In multi access network environments, mobile stations may encounter multiple choices for selecting an access network. Carefully designed access selection schemes can provide not only mobile users...
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Predictive Scheduling in Multi-Carrier Wireless Networks With Link Adaptation
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Channel-aware scheduling and link adaptation methods are widely considered to be crucial for realizing high data rates in wireless networks. However, predicting the future channel states, and...
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A Monte Carlo Method for Mobile Target Counting
March 21, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper addresses the problem of target counting based on the Monte Carlo simulation. The authors rely on an Accept-Reject process to guide the placement of virtual targets in a virtual sensor...
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Sparse Target Counting and Localization in Sensor Networks Based on Compressive Sensing
January 10, 2011, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors propose a novel Compressive Sensing (CS) based approach for sparse target counting and positioning in wireless sensor networks. While this is not the first work on...
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Bank Risk Management With Value-At-Risk And Stress Testing: An Alternative To Conditional Value-At-Risk?
March 17, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Recognizing the drawbacks of Value-at-Risk (VaR), researchers have advocated the use of Conditional Value-at-Risk (CVaR). However, the current popularity of VaR and Stress Testing (ST) among bank...
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Long Run Growth In Mortgage And Consumer Credit: New Perspectives
December 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
The current credit crunch and volatility in the financial markets is primarily blamed on two circumstances: some consumers' misuse of mortgage credit and some mortgage lenders' making credit...
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Reconfigurability Issues in Metro DWDM Networks
September 2, 2008, 12:00am PDT
With increasing packet-based traffic in metro networks, fast reconfigurability is becoming a requirement for optical networks. Since manual reconfiguration could take weeks, carriers are upgrading...
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Whitepapers
Joint VM Placement and Routing for Data Center Traffic Engineering
January 14, 2012, 12:00am PST
Today's data centers need efficient traffic management to improve resource utilization in their networks. In this paper, the authors study a joint tenant (e.g., server or virtual machine)...
Provided by George Washington University
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Whitepapers
Enterprise-Ready Virtual Cloud Pools: Vision, Opportunities and Challenges
June 26, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Cloud computing platforms such as Amazon EC2 provide customers with flexible, on-demand resources at low cost. However, while existing offerings are useful for providing basic computation and...
Provided by George Washington University
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Model based Testing for Software Systems: An Application of Markov Modulated Markov Process
May 1, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Software systems require the validation of design features through regression testing. Two primary challenges in system validation are ensuring that test suites reflect actual system usage, and...
Provided by George Washington University
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Improving Hybrid FSO/RF Network Reliability Through Transceiver Reconfiguration
November 21, 2012, 12:00am PST
Despite the increasing popularity of Free-Space Optics (FSO) in wireless mesh networks, reliability is still a major concern. Due to the strong dependence of FSO link availability on weather...
Provided by George Washington University
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Whitepapers
Software Selection based on Quantitative Security Risk Assessment
November 14, 2012, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors present a software product evaluation method using such a quantitative security risk assessment model. This method utilizes prior research in quantitative security risk...
Provided by George Washington University
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Whitepapers
Cross-Layer RWA in Translucent Optical Networks
May 24, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM)-based optical networks are ideal candidates for core backbone networks because of their ability to carry large amounts of traffic. Optical amplification has...
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Achievable Transmission Capacity of Cognitive Radio Networks With Cooperative Relaying
July 3, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Previous research on cognitive networks argues that secondary users can only work under a low transmission power condition in an underlay spectrum sharing model. Motivated by the idea of...
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Verifiable Multi-Secret Sharing Based on LFSR Sequences
May 3, 2012, 12:00am PDT
In Verifiable Multi-Secret Sharing schemes (VMSSs), many secrets can be shared but only one share is kept by each user and this share is verifiable by others. In this paper, the authors propose...
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Time-Synchronization Free Localization in Large Scale Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks
April 12, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors introduce and study the localization problem in large scale underwater acoustic sensor networks. Considering that depth information is typically available for underwater sensors, they...
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A Design of an Access Control Model for Multilevel-Security Documents
February 20, 2008, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors describe an access control model for multilevel-security documents, those structured into multiple sections based on certain security classifications. Their access...
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RPRAM: Exploring Redundancy Techniques to Improve Lifetime of PCM-Based Main Memory
August 2, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Future main memory systems will confront the scaling challenges posed by DRAM technology and should adapt themselves to use the emerging memory technologies like Phase Change Memory (PCM, or...
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Providing Reliability as an Elastic Service in Cloud Computing
February 10, 2012, 12:00am PST
Modern day data centers coordinate hundreds of thousands of heterogeneous tasks and aim at delivering highly reliable cloud computing services. Although offering equal reliability to all users...
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Maximizing Throughput When Achieving Time Fairness in Multi-Rate Wireless LANs
January 26, 2012, 12:00am PST
This paper focuses on designing a distributed medium access control algorithm that aims at achieving time fairness among contending stations and throughput maximization in an 802.11 wireless LAN....
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Traffic Clustering and Online Traffic Prediction in Vehicle Networks: A Social Influence Perspective
January 16, 2012, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors investigate the dynamic traffic relationship characterized by a similarity value from one road point to another in vehicle networks. Due to the regularity of human...
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A Statistical Approach for Target Counting in Sensor-Based Surveillance Systems
January 16, 2012, 12:00am PST
Target counting in sensor-based surveillance systems is an interesting task that potentially could have many important applications in practice. In such a system, each sensor outputs the number of...
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Achievable Transmission Capacity of Cognitive Mesh Networks With Different Media Access Control
January 16, 2012, 12:00am PST
Spectrum sharing is an emerging mechanism to resolve the conflict between the spectrum scarcity and the growing demands for the wireless broadband access. In this paper, the authors investigate...
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Performance Modeling and Analysis of Flash-Based Storage Devices
April 6, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Flash-based Solid-State Drives (SSDs) will become key components in future storage systems. An accurate performance model will not only help understand the state-of-the-art of SSDs, but also...
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Algorithmic Aspects of Wireless Networks
October 8, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Recent advances in electronic and computer technologies have paved the way for the proliferation of ubiquitous wireless networks. Fast deployment of these communication networks for the users is...
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TRACON: Interference-Aware Scheduling for Data-Intensive Applications in Virtualized Environments
November 18, 2011, 12:00am PST
Large-scale data centers leverage virtualization technology to achieve excellent resource utilization, scalability, and high availability. Ideally, the performance of an application running inside...
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Reconfigurability Issues in Metro DWDM Networks
September 2, 2008, 12:00am PDT
With increasing packet-based traffic in metro networks, fast reconfigurability is becoming a requirement for optical networks. Since manual reconfiguration could take weeks, carriers are upgrading...
Provided by George Washington University
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White Papers
Long Run Growth In Mortgage And Consumer Credit: New Perspectives
December 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
The current credit crunch and volatility in the financial markets is primarily blamed on two circumstances: some consumers' misuse of mortgage credit and some mortgage lenders' making credit...
Provided by George Washington University
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White Papers
Bank Risk Management With Value-At-Risk And Stress Testing: An Alternative To Conditional Value-At-Risk?
March 17, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Recognizing the drawbacks of Value-at-Risk (VaR), researchers have advocated the use of Conditional Value-at-Risk (CVaR). However, the current popularity of VaR and Stress Testing (ST) among bank...
Provided by George Washington University
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White Papers
Sparse Target Counting and Localization in Sensor Networks Based on Compressive Sensing
January 10, 2011, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors propose a novel Compressive Sensing (CS) based approach for sparse target counting and positioning in wireless sensor networks. While this is not the first work on...
Provided by George Washington University
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White Papers
A Monte Carlo Method for Mobile Target Counting
March 21, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper addresses the problem of target counting based on the Monte Carlo simulation. The authors rely on an Accept-Reject process to guide the placement of virtual targets in a virtual sensor...
Provided by George Washington University
-
White Papers
Predictive Scheduling in Multi-Carrier Wireless Networks With Link Adaptation
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Channel-aware scheduling and link adaptation methods are widely considered to be crucial for realizing high data rates in wireless networks. However, predicting the future channel states, and...
Provided by George Washington University
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White Papers
Virtual Price Based Policy Enforcement for Access Selection and Vertical Handover in Multi-Access Networks
September 19, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In multi access network environments, mobile stations may encounter multiple choices for selecting an access network. Carefully designed access selection schemes can provide not only mobile users...
Provided by George Washington University
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White Papers
Providing Strict Quality of Service in HSDPA for Real Time Services
June 14, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Increasing demand for high data-rate real time services has led to the use of shared channels in the forward link for real-time services in 3G wireless networks, such as HSDPA. Strict and...
Provided by George Washington University
-
White Papers
Utility-Based Load Balancing in WLAN/UMTS Internetworking Systems
July 20, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The complementary characteristics of 3G cellular networks (such as UMTS) and IEEE's 802.11 Wireless LANs (WLANs) have stimulated intensive research efforts to integrate UMTS and WLAN networks. In...
Provided by George Washington University
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White Papers
RFC: A Robust and Fast Rate Control Scheme in IEEE 802.11 Wireless Networks
July 2, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors study the rate adaptation problem in IEEE 802.11 based wireless networks. The majority of existing rate control schemes are based on a well believed intuition that data...
Provided by George Washington University
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White Papers
Reforming Financial Regulation To Address The Too-Big-To-Fail Problem
October 28, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The ongoing financial crisis - widely viewed as the worst since the Great Depression1 - has inflicted tremendous damage on financial markets and economies around the world. The crisis has revealed...
Provided by George Washington University Law School
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Comment Letter To The U.S. Treasury Department Concerning The Regulatory Structure For Financial Institutions
December 7, 2007, 12:00am PST
Thank you for the opportunity to submit these comments in connection with the Treasury Department's consideration of proposals for changes in the current structure of regulation for financial...
Provided by George Washington University Law School
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White Papers
Legal Compliance And Korea Financial Services Market: Strategic Approach
May 2, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The purpose of this paper is to improve the compliance level in the Korean financial services market by proposing a more systematic approach to economic crimes. As one of the most important...
Provided by George Washington University Law School
-
White Papers
The International Anti-Money Laundering And Combating The Financing Of Terrorism Regulatory Strategy: A Critical Analysis Of Compliance Determinants In International Law
August 10, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Concerns about the risks Money Laundering (ML) and Terrorist Financing (TF) present to the stability of the international financial system have resurfaced in the context of the liquidity problems...
Provided by George Washington University Law School
-
White Papers
Two Hundred Years Of Financial Integration: Latin America Since Independence
August 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The author collects a new database on Latin America's international issuance from 1820 to 1931 in the major financial centers of that time: London, Paris, Berlin, Frankfurt, and New York. This...
Provided by George Washington University
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White Papers
Short-Run Pain, Long-Run Gain: Financial Liberalization And Stock Market Cycles
December 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
The views on financial liberalization are quite conflictive. Many argue that it triggers financial bubbles and crises. Others claim that financial liberalization allows markets to function...
Provided by George Washington University
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White Papers
Using the PGAS Programming Paradigm for Biological Sequence Alignment on a Chip Multi-Threading Architecture
June 16, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The Partitioned Global Address Space (PGAS) programming paradigm offers ease-of-use in expressing parallelism through a global shared address space while emphasizing performance by providing...
Provided by George Washington University
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White Papers
Architecture and Algorithms for Distributed Rule Management and Processing
August 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Many distributed computing environments are based on the paradigms of peer-to-peer networks and grid-based computing. These environments tend to be structurally dynamic but with volatile resource...
Provided by George Washington University
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White Papers
Anonymity And Individual Risk
August 31, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Competitive equilibria in adverse selection economies with private information are generally studied in models with a market structure that has risk neutral firms, market segmentation and contract...
Provided by George Washington University
-
White Papers
3DLoc2: Three Dimensional Localization and Locking Toolkits for Tracing Anonymous Wireless Criminals
August 31, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Network forensics plays a crucial role for public safety and homeland security. A critical challenge, however, is the fact that criminals may leverage the open wireless networks provided by many...
Provided by George Washington University
-
White Papers
The Digital Marauder's Map: A New Threat to Location Privacy
March 27, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The Marauder's Map is a magical map in J. K. Rowling's fantasy series, "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban". It shows all moving objects within the "Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and...
Provided by George Washington University
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