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A Study of the Performance of SSL on PDAs
April 9, 2009, 12:00am PDT
PDAs and smartphones are increasingly being used as handheld computers. Today, their network connectivity and their usages for various tasks over the Internet require privacy and authenticity....
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Granules: A Lightweight, Streaming Runtime for Cloud Computing With Support for Map-Reduce
August 8, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Cloud computing has gained significant traction in recent years. The Map-Reduce framework is currently the most dominant programming model in cloud computing settings. This paper describes...
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An Overview of the Granules Runtime for Cloud Computing
October 24, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Cloud computing enables applications to harness capabilities, both computing and storage, that are available in computational clouds that comprise thousands of computers. In the past year, cloud...
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On the Use of Cloud Computing for Scientific Workflows
October 31, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper explores the use of cloud computing for scientific workflows, focusing on a widely used astronomy application-Montage. The approach is to evaluate from the point of view of a scientific...
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Supporting Cloud Computing With the Virtual Block Store System
August 27, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The fast development of cloud computing systems stimulate the needs for a standalone block storage system, which can provide persistent block storage services to the virtual machines maintained by...
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High Performance Parallel Computing With Clouds and Cloud Technologies
June 16, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Infrastructure services (Infrastructure-as-a-service), provided by cloud vendors, allow any user to provision a large number of compute instances fairly easily. Whether leased from public clouds...
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The Controversies Over Data Mining and Warrantless Searches in the Wake of September 11
March 23, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In 2004, the Congress voted to end funding for a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) data mining program called Total Information Awareness (TIA) that was supposed to be used for...
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Visual Mining of Multimedia Data for Social and Behavioral Studies
March 31, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper proposes a new framework of visual mining of multimedia data. The key idea is to integrate data visualization and data mining. Based on this idea, it has developed a prototype system...
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High Performance Dimension Reduction and Visualization for Large High-Dimensional Data Analysis
February 20, 2010, 12:00am PST
Large high dimension datasets are of growing importance in many fields and it is important to be able to visualize them for understanding the results of data mining approaches or just for browsing...
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Semantic Web Portal: A Platform for Better Browsing and Visualizing Semantic Data
January 14, 2010, 12:00am PST
One of the major complaints about Semantic Web technologies is that there are few user-friendly ways for displaying, browsing and querying semantic data. Lacking of effective interfaces for end...
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Intelligent Peer Networks for Collaborative Web Search
February 10, 2008, 12:00am PST
Collaborative query routing is a new paradigm for web search that treats both, established search engines and other publicly available indices, as intelligent peer agents in a search network. The...
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Control Motivations And Capital Structure Decisions
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper investigates the use of leverage as one channel through which control-motivated blockholders can defend their corporate control. Such blockholders face a trade-off between raising...
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Privacy-Preserving History Mining for Web Browsers
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The authors introduce a new technique that permits servers to harvest selected Internet browsing history from visiting clients. Privacy-Preserving History Mining (PPHM) requires no installation of...
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The Grid, Cloud Computing and Our Manycore Future
January 9, 2008, 12:00am PST
Introducing the data center cloud into the picture adds new dimensions to the process of problem solving. Small teams of collaborators or large communities that share a common interest will be...
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Multicores in Cloud Computing: Research Challenges for Applications
October 16, 2009, 12:00am PDT
With modern techniques that allow billions of transistors on a chip, microprocessor design is going to a world of multicore. A cluster of multicores will be commonly used as an efficient...
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Cloud Computing
January 21, 2009, 12:00am PST
Cloud computing - a relatively recent term, defines the paths ahead in computer science world. Being built on decades of research it utilizes all recent achievements in virtualization, distributed...
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Adaptive Routing Strategies for Modern High Performance Networks
August 21, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Today's scalable high-performance applications heavily depend on the bandwidth characteristics of their communication patterns. Contemporary multi-stage interconnection networks suffer from...
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Architecture for Scalable, Distributed Database System Built on Multicore Servers
May 20, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Many scientific fields routinely generate huge datasets. In many cases, these datasets are not static but rapidly grow in size. Handling these types of datasets, as well as allowing sophisticated...
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Main Memory DBMS on Modern Processors, a Scalable Approach for Database Performance Characterization Using Simulation
May 2, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents a simulation approach for database performance characterization, which can be scaled to target at a variety of platforms, ranging from uniprocessor desktops to multiprocessor...
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Querying XML Data: Does One Query Language Fit All?
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper describes the characteristics of two different query languages designed to query XML data: DSQL, a declarative SQL like language and XQuery, a procedural language that is fast becoming...
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An Open-Source XML-Based Java Implementation of the Medical Gopher Order and Note Writing Tool
December 19, 2007, 12:00am PST
The Medical Gopher is an electronic order-entry and note writing system used at Wishard Hospital, a county hospital in Indianapolis, Indiana. Wishard physicians have entered orders into the system...
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Loan Officers And Relationship Lending To SMEs
July 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The recent literature on SME financing has emphasized the dichotomy between soft information and hard information. Specifically, this literature has identified soft information with "Relationship...
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Main Memory DBMS on Modern Processors, a Simulation Approach for Database Performance Characterization
January 28, 2008, 12:00am PST
Database applications are an important type of workloads that is very different from other types of application workloads such as SPEC benchmarks. In the past, much research has been devoted to...
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Unlocking the Wireless Safe: Opening Up the Wireless World for Consumers
June 3, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Frustrated with the way that wireless carriers choose which applications they offer and which phones customers can use on their networks, a growing number of companies and interest groups are...
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A Strategy For Building Public Service Motivation Research Internationally
May 12, 2009, 12:00am PDT
As the scholarly research on Public Service Motivation (PSM) has grown and the geographic scope of the research has expanded, there is growing concern about whether the conceptual composition and...
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Performance Analysis of HPC Virtualization Technologies Within FutureGrid
November 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
As Cloud computing emerges as the dominant paradigm in distributed systems, it's important to fully understand the underlying technologies that make clouds possible. One technology, and perhaps...
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Survey on Cloud Computing Security
August 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Cloud computing may be defined as management and provision of resources, software, applications and information as services over the cloud (internet) on demand. Cloud computing is a model for...
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High Performance Parallel Computing With Cloud and Cloud Technologies
September 12, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents the experiences in applying, developing, and evaluating cloud and cloud technologies. First, this paper presents the experience in applying Hadoop and DryadLINQ to a series of...
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Cloud Computing for Geosciences
February 2, 2010, 12:00am PST
Cyberinfrastructure has closely tracked commercial best practices for over a decade, but the authors believe there is still much to learn about correct strategies for building distributed systems...
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Measured Characteristics of Distributed Cloud Computing Infrastructure for Message-Based Collaboration Applications
June 13, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Cloud is an emerging information technology infrastructure designed for rapid delivery of computing resources. It promises to facilitate new applications deployment by highly efficient virtualized...
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Parallel Applications and Tools for Cloud Computing Environments
September 17, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The main research focus of SALSA project is two-fold. First, the authors investigate new programming models of parallel multicore computing and Cloud/Grid computing. It aimed at developing and...
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Comparative Analysis Of ERP Vendors: SAP, Oracle, And Microsoft
December 2, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper gives the comparative analysis on the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) vendors, SAP, Oracle, and Microsoft. The authors research on functionalities, cost, features, and target market...
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Technology Majors Preferences For Business Communications
September 20, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The purpose of the study was to determine if there was any association between technology majors and their preferences for business communications tasks and tools. In the quest for preparing...
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Thirty Years Of International Business Scholarship In Canada
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Upon the invitation of the Hemant Merchant, the author have reviewed the development of international business (IB) scholarship in Canada and related this to his own research conducted while they...
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Project Bloom: Empowering the Security Research Community Through Data Products and Computing
September 7, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Cybercrime is a thriving multi-billion dollar underground economy. Web sites connected to phishing, malware, and scam spring up by the millions every day, and users are lured to them through...
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Programming the Grid: Distributed Software Components, P2P and Grid Web Services for Scientific Applications
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Computational Grids [Grid, Grid1] have become an important asset in large-scale scientific and engineering research. By providing a set of services that allow a widely distributed collection of...
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ParaXML: A Parallel XML Processing Model on the Multicore CPUs
April 14, 2008, 12:00am PDT
XML has emerged as the de facto standard interoperable data format for the web service, the database and document processing systems. The processing of the XML documents, however, has been...
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CIFTS: A Coordinated Infrastructure for Fault-Tolerant Systems
June 23, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Considerable work has been done on providing fault tolerance capabilities for different software components on large scale high-end computing systems. Thus far, however, these fault tolerant...
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The Web Is Smaller Than It Seems
August 21, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The Web has grown beyond anybody's imagination. While significant research has been devoted to understanding aspects of the web from the perspective of the documents that comprise it, the authors...
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MapReduce in the Clouds for Science
October 12, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The utility computing model introduced by cloud computing combined with the rich set of cloud infrastructure services offers a very viable alternative to traditional servers and computing...
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GoDEL: A Multidirectional Dataflow Execution Model for Large-Scale Computing
February 9, 2012, 12:00am PST
As the emerging trends in hardware architecture guided by performance, power efficiency and complexity drive one towards massive processor parallelism; there has been a renewed interest in...
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The Design and Implementation of a Multi-Level Content-Addressable Checkpoint File System
August 19, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Long-running HPC applications guard against node failures by writing checkpoints to parallel file systems. Writing these checkpoints with petascale class machines has proven difficult and the...
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Abstract Image Management and Universal Image Registration for Cloud and HPC Infrastructures
May 6, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Cloud computing has become an important driver for delivering Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) to users with on-demand requests for customized environments and sophisticated software stacks....
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Large-Scale Privacy-Preserving Mapping of Human Genomic Sequences on Hybrid Clouds
November 29, 2011, 12:00am PST
An operation preceding most human DNA analyses is read mapping, which aligns millions of short sequences (called reads) to a reference genome. This step involves an enormous amount of computation...
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FRIEDA: Flexible Robust Intelligent Elastic Data Management in Cloud Environments
November 10, 2012, 12:00am PST
Scientific applications are increasingly using cloud resources for their data analysis workflows. However, managing data effectively and efficiently over these cloud resources is challenging due...
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SWARM: Scheduling Large-Scale Jobs Over the Loosely-Coupled HPC Clusters
August 14, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Compute-intensive scientific applications are heavily reliant on the available quantity of computing resources. The Grid paradigm provides a large scale computing environment for scientific users....
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PlaceRaider: Virtual Theft in Physical Spaces with Smartphones
September 27, 2012, 12:00am PDT
As Smartphone become more pervasive, they are increasingly targeted by malware. At the same time, each new generation of Smartphone features increasingly powerful onboard sensor suites. A new...
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Touring DNS Open Houses for Trends and Configurations
March 6, 2011, 12:00am PST
DNS is a critical component of the Internet. It maps domain names to IP addresses and serves as a distributed database for various other applications, including mail, Web, and spam filtering. This...
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Trust Management Framework for Social Networks
May 24, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Inspired by the similarities between human trust and physical measurements, the authors propose a new system of trust metrics, composed by impression and confidence, which captures both human...
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Seed and Grow: An Attack Against Anonymized Social Networks
March 24, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Digital traces left by a user of an online social networking service can be abused by a malicious party to compromise the person's privacy. This is exacerbated by the increasing overlap in...
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Scalable Parallel Computing on Clouds Using Twister4Azure Iterative MapReduce
June 22, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Recent advances in data intensive computing for science discovery are fueling a dramatic growth in the use of data-intensive iterative computations. The utility computing model introduced by cloud...
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Towards Cloud Deployments Using FutureGrid
March 3, 2012, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors briefly outline some differences between IaaS frameworks Eucalyptus, OpenNebula, OpenStack and Nimbus. They provide also an overview how platforms such as Amazon, Azure,...
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Synchronization Level Specification and Matching of Software Components
March 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
Generating distributed systems from independently developed and deployed components is a promising alternative for today's dynamic and interconnected world. If such components have to collaborate...
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Thwarting Wi-Fi Side-Channel Analysis Through Traffic Demultiplexing
August 15, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Side-channel information leaks have been reported in various online applications, especially, in Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) due to the shared-medium nature of wireless links and the ease...
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Extending Automatic Parallelization to Optimize High-Level Abstractions for Multicore
March 6, 2009, 12:00am PST
Automatic introduction of OpenMP for sequential applications has attracted significant attention recently because of the proliferation of multicore processors and the simplicity of using OpenMP to...
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Pure, Declarative, and Constructive Arithmetic Relations
January 21, 2008, 12:00am PST
The authors present decidable logic programs for addition, multiplication, division with remainder, exponentiation, and logarithm with remainder over the unbounded domain of natural numbers. Their...
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Energy-Aware High Performance Computing - A Taxonomy Study
September 29, 2011, 12:00am PDT
To reduce the energy consumption and build a sustainable computer infrastructure now becomes a major goal of the high performance community. A number of research projects have been carried out in...
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Mitigating Inadvertent Insider Threats With Incentives
January 22, 2009, 12:00am PST
Inadvertent insiders are trusted insiders who do not have malicious intent (as with malicious insiders) but do not responsibly managing security. The result is often enabling a malicious outsider...
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Cluster-Based Load Balancing Algorithms for Grids
September 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
E-science applications may require huge amounts of data and high processing power where grid infrastructures are very suitable for meeting these requirements. The load distribution in a grid may...
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Ftypes: Structured Foreign Types
October 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
High-level programming languages, like Scheme, typically represent data in ways that differ from the host platform to support consistent behavior across platforms and automatic storage management,...
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Hygienic Literate Programming: Lessons From ChezWEB
October 2, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Literate programming systems are a class of domain specific languages designed to encourage writing programs specifically to be read as essays or books by humans instead of by machines. Systems...
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cKanren miniKanren With Constraints
November 4, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors present cKanren, a framework for Constraint Logic Programming (CLP) in Scheme. cKanren subsumes miniKanren, a logic programming language embedded in Scheme. cKanren allows programmers...
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AGIS: Towards Automatic Generation of Infection Signatures
March 10, 2008, 12:00am PDT
An important yet largely uncharted problem in malware defense is how to automate generation of infection signatures for detecting compromised systems, i.e., signatures that characterize the...
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Panalyst: Privacy-Aware Remote Error Analysis on Commodity Software
May 12, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Remote error analysis aims at timely detection and remedy of software vulnerabilities through analyzing run-time errors that occur on the client. This objective can only be achieved by offering...
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Peeping Tom in the Neighborhood: Keystroke Eavesdropping on Multi-User Systems
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
A multi-user system usually involves a large amount of information shared among its users. The security implications of such information can never be underestimated. In this paper, the authors...
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Side-Channel Leaks in Web Applications: A Reality Today, a Challenge Tomorrow
March 5, 2010, 12:00am PST
With software-as-a-service becoming mainstream, more and more applications are delivered to the client through the Web. Unlike a desktop application, a web application is split into browser-side...
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Simulating Real-Time Aspects of Wireless Sensor Networks
November 10, 2009, 12:00am PST
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) technology has been mainly used in the applications with low-frequency sampling and little computational complexity. Recently, new classes of WSN-based applications...
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I/O Performance of Virtualized Cloud Environments
October 26, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The scientific community is exploring the suitability of cloud infrastructure to handle High Performance Computing (HPC) applications. The goal of Magellan, a project funded through DOE ASCR, is...
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Bridging the Gap Between Desktop and the Cloud for EScience Applications
May 7, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The widely discussed scientific data deluge creates a need to computationally scale out eScience applications beyond the local desktop and cope with variable loads over time. Cloud computing...
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Cloud Gazing: A Comprehensive Evaluation of IaaS Technologies for FutureGrid
March 28, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Since the beginning of Cloud computing as a new and emerging paradigm, the field of Distributed Systems is amidst a stage of redefinition. Due to this, there are a wide variety of "Cloud"...
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Cooperative Network and Energy Management for Reservation-Based Wireless Real-Time Environments
March 10, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Reservation-based bandwidth allocation mechanisms in wireless and mobile environments, such as supported by the IEEE 802.11e standard, promise to offer enhanced support for real-time services and...
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Dynamic Provisioned Experiments in FutureGrid
October 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
FutureGrid provides novel computing capabilities enabling reproducible experiments while supporting dynamic provisioning. This paper describes the FutureGrid project and experiment abstractions to...
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SaaS Modeling Tool for Personalization
October 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Software as a Service (SaaS) is an emerging software framework satisfying many tenants. It requires a unified subscriber to describe SaaS to make for easy integration with other application;...
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Do Financial Analysts Restrain Insiders' Informational Advantage?
November 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper investigates the competitive relationship between sell-side analysts and firm insiders for price-sensitive information. Without the presence of research analysts, firm insiders have a...
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A Cluster-Based Dynamic Load Balancing Middleware Protocol for Grids
December 7, 2010, 12:00am PST
The load distribution in a grid may vary leading to the bottlenecks and overloaded sites. The authors describe a hierarchical dynamic load balancing protocol for Grids. The Grid consists of...
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Visual Tracking Using Sensor Networks
March 6, 2009, 12:00am PST
New trends in wireless sensor networks envisage deployments for distributed applications requiring real-time support at the kernel level and Quality of Service at the network level. In this...
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The Multivision Problem for Wireless Sensor Networks: A Discussion About Node and Network Architecture
May 14, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Wireless sensor networks were initially proposed for environmental monitoring: in this domain the device nodes are expected to fetch sensor data and interpret them making use of basic elaboration...
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Stealth Attacks on Vehicular Wireless Networks
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors discuss various issues related to so-called stealth attacks. They elaborate on stealth attacks in the context of three common types of wireless networks, namely ad hoc...
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Spectrum Sensing Methods and Dynamic Spectrum Sharing in Cognitive Radio Networks: A Survey
March 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Dynamic spectrum access and Cognitive Radio (CR) are emerging technologies to utilize the scarce frequency spectrum in an efficient and opportunistic manner. They have been receiving tremendous...
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A Survery of Open-Source Cloud Infrastructure Using FutureGrid Testbed
November 15, 2010, 12:00am PST
Cloud infrastructure management is now an emerging problem in cloud computing. Open source projects such as Nimbus, Eucalyptus and OpenNebula provide the great opportunity for industries,...
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