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Resurrecting Keynes To Stabilize The International Monetary System
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors adapt the basic principles of the Keynes Plan and argue for the creation of supranational bank money that would coexist alongside national currencies and for the establishment of a New...
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On the Performance of Joint Fingerprint Embedding and Decryption Scheme
February 3, 2008, 12:00am PST
In densely populated urban areas WiFi routers form a tightly interconnected proximity network that can be exploited as a substrate for the spreading of malware able to launch massive fraudulent...
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A Language for Generic Programming in the Large
February 5, 2008, 12:00am PST
Generic programming is an effective methodology for developing reusable software libraries. Many programming languages provide generics and have features for describing interfaces, but none...
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PRECIP: Towards Practical and Retrofittable Confidential Information Protection
December 12, 2007, 12:00am PST
A grand challenge in information protection is how to preserve the confidentiality of sensitive information under spyware surveillance. This problem has not been well addressed by the existing...
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Communities of Interest for Internet Traffic Prioritization
April 6, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Communities Of Interest (COI) have been studied in the past to classify traffic within an enterprise network, and to mitigate Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks. The authors investigate the use of...
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A Unified Approach to Intra-Domain Security
September 14, 2009, 12:00am PDT
While a variety of mechanisms have been developed for securing individual intra-domain protocols, none address the issue in a holistic manner. The authors develop a unified framework to secure...
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Malicious Hubs: Detecting Abnormally Malicious Autonomous Systems
January 11, 2011, 12:00am PST
While many attacks are distributed across botnets, investigators and network operators have recently targeted malicious networks through high profile Autonomous System (AS) de-peerings and network...
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An Internet Without the Internet Protocol
August 24, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The growth of the Internet has brought about many challenges for its critical infrastructure. The DNS infrastructure, which translates mnemonic host names into IP addresses understood by the...
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Prevalence and Mitigation of Forum Spamming
February 25, 2011, 12:00am PST
Forums on the Web are increasingly spammed by miscreants in order to attract visitors to their (often malicious) websites. In this paper, the authors study the prevalence of forum spamming and...
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OASIS: A Service-Oriented Architecture for Dynamic Instrumentation of Enterprise Distributed Real-Time and Embedded Systems
December 13, 2009, 12:00am PST
Performance analysis tools for enterprise Distributed Real-time and Embedded (DRE) systems require instrumenting heterogeneous sources (such as application- and system-level hardware and software...
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Bureaucratic And Strategic Human Resource Management: An Empirical Comparison In The Federal Government
October 2, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Proposals to reform the highly regulated personnel system that governs the majority of federal employees are the focus of national debate. This paper compares two contrasting personnel systems,...
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Does Search Friction Really Matter? Evidence From The Corporate Bond Market
September 19, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper aims to establish the empirical importance of costly search in decentralized financial markets. Investors face a trade-off between information gathering costs and improved pricing....
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Industry Competition And The Revelation Of Fraudulent Earnings Manipulation
September 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In this paper the authors investigate the impact of fraudulent earnings manipulation on the rivals of the fraudulent firm. Using a simple extension of the Cournot model they first show that rival...
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IPO Underpricing And International Corporate Governance
July 9, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Examining a sample of 4,485 IPOs across 35 countries from 2000-2004, the authors find that country-level governance characteristics explain differences in the international cross section of IPO...
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Analysis of Virtualization Technologies for High Performance Computing Environments
March 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
As Cloud computing emerges as a dominant paradigm in distributed systems, it is important to fully understand the underlying technologies that make clouds possible. One technology, and perhaps the...
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Measured Characteristics of FutureGrid Clouds for Scalable Collaborative Sensor-Centric Grid Applications
March 23, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The emergence of cloud technology has raised a renewed emphasis on the issue of scalable on-demand computing. Cloud back-end support of small devices such as sensors and mobile phones is one...
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Toward Securing Sensor Clouds
March 8, 2011, 12:00am PST
The authors aim to secure smart sensor networks, where computationally powerful sensing devices such as smartphones or cognitive radios interact with the cloud. In previous work, they have...
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A Hierarchical Framework for Cross-Domain MapReduce Execution
February 16, 2011, 12:00am PST
The MapReduce programming model provides an easy way to execute pleasantly parallel applications. Many data-intensive life science applications fit this programming model and benefit from the...
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FutureGrid Image Repository: A Generic Catalog and Storage System for Heterogeneous Virtual Machine Images
May 9, 2011, 12:00am PDT
FutureGrid (FG) is an experimental, high-performance testbed that supports HPC, cloud and grid computing experiments for both application and computer scientist. FutureGrid includes the use of...
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Iterative MapReduce for Azure Cloud
May 13, 2011, 12:00am PDT
MapReduce distributed data processing architecture has become the de-facto data-intensive analysis mechanism in compute clouds and in commodity clusters, mainly due to its excellent fault...
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Toward a Modular and Efficient Distribution for Web Service Handlers
March 19, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Over the last few decades, distributed systems have demonstrated architectural evolvement. One recent evolutionary step is Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). The SOA model is perfectly...
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R-Tree: A Hardware Implementation
May 16, 2008, 12:00am PDT
R-tree data structures are widely used in spatial databases to store, manage and manipulate spatial information. As the data volume of such databases is typically very large, the query operation...
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Multiprocessor Simulation Using Communicating Sequential Processes
May 17, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Modeling and simulation are extremely important tools used for accurate performance prediction of multi-core/- multiprocessor systems. To tackle the complexity of capturing the design and...
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NOAA Coastal Sites: An N-Tiered Service-Oriented Approach Towards Visualization of Meteorology and Water Levels Data
April 20, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The VisPort application adopts a service-oriented architecture to encapsulate visualization functionality that supports remote access. Data sets are typically large and multi-dimensional and made...
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Pythia: A Privacy Aware, Peer-to-Peer Network for Social Search
October 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Social search systems such as Aardvark and Facebook Questions allow users to pose questions to their social network in real time. Upon receiving a question on a particular topic, Aardvark for...
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Schema-Independent and Schema-Friendly Scientific Metadata Management
January 13, 2011, 12:00am PST
Computational science is creating a deluge of data, and being able to reuse this data requires detailed descriptive metadata. Scientific communities have developed detailed metadata schemas to...
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Sigiri: Uniform Abstraction for Large-Scale Compute Resource Interactions
April 12, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Scientists who conduct mid-range computationally heavy modeling and analysis often scramble to find sufficient computational resources to test and run their codes. The science they carry out is...
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Inducing Relatedness Graphs for Data Integration
September 29, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors present the AbsMatcher system for schema matching which uses a graph based approach. AbsMatcher creates a graph of related attributes within a schema, mines similarity...
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Sigiri: Towards A Light-Weight Job Management System for Large Scale Systems
August 20, 2009, 12:00am PDT
e-Science applications are often compute and data intensive, requiring large-scale compute systems for execution. Large-scale systems, however, support a variety of resource management interfaces...
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Modularizing Data Mining: A Case Study Framework
July 16, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents the fundamental concepts underpinning MoLS, a framework for exploring and applying many variations of algorithms for one datamining problem: mining a database relation for...
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ORCS: An Oblivious Routing Congestion Simulator
February 18, 2009, 12:00am PST
Bisection Bandwidth, as defined by Hennessy and Patterson in as the bandwidth between the two equal sized halves of the network for the worst case partition, is widely used as a theoretical model...
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Fixing Probe for Multi-Threaded MPI Applications
January 21, 2009, 12:00am PST
MPI's message-probing operations, MPI Probe and MPI Iprobe, are useful in MPI applications that do not know a priori what messages they will receive or how much data those messages will contain....
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Workload-Aware Trie Indexes for XML
January 26, 2009, 12:00am PST
Well-designed indexes can dramatically improve query performance. In the context of XML, structural indexes have proven to be particularly effective in supporting efficient XPath queries - the...
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A Survey of Distributed Workflow Characteristics and Resource Requirements
October 13, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Workflows have been used to model repeatable tasks or operations in a number of different industries including manufacturing and software. In recent years, workflows are increasingly used in...
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HTTP Fences: Immigration Control for Web Pages
July 30, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors propose an extension to the HTTP protocol that allows specification of domain borders in the form of fences - a service provider is empowered with the ability to specify what exactly...
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Towards Automatic Reverse Engineering of Software Security Configurations
October 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The specifications of an application's security configuration are crucial for understanding its security policies, which can be very helpful in security-related contexts such as misconfiguration...
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Diffusion and Adoption of IPv6 in the United States
January 22, 2008, 12:00am PST
What are the best case, current projection and reasonably optimistic cases for the adoption of the IPv6 protocol? This paper will analyze IPv6 routes from the ARIN Project to quantify the current...
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A Scalable and Robust Coordination Architecture for Distributed Management
February 22, 2008, 12:00am PST
While opening avenues for unlimited possibilities, distributed systems have introduced management complexity as an unfavorable trait. Therefore, as distributed systems become commonplace, the...
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A Case Study in Using Design Principles for Secure Operating System Interfaces
October 2, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The authors present a three-phase case study in the use of design principles for designing usable and secure Operating System (OS) interfaces. For the first phase, they performed a cognitive...
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Electronic Data Interchange and Enterprise Resource Planning Technology in Supply-Chain Contracts
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The authors examine a model of Information-Sharing contracting with a purchaser that desires to acquire as much of a product as possible at as low a price as possible. The supplier in their model...
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Anchors Away: How Fiscal Policy Can Undermine "Good" Monetary Policy
November 8, 2009, 12:00am PST
Slow moving demographics are aging populations around the world and pushing many countries into an extended period of heightened fiscal stress. In some countries, taxes alone cannot or likely will...
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Cross Market Effects Of Stocks Short-Selling Restrictions: Evidence From The September 2008 Natural Experiment
November 13, 2009, 12:00am PST
Using intraday data, this paper investigates empirically the joint stock and corporate bond markets responses to the September 2008 stocks short sell ban. This paper intends to exploit the natural...
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The Integrated Instrumental Variables Estimator: Exploiting Nonlinearities For Identification Of Linear Models
February 2, 2010, 12:00am PST
A new estimator for linear models with endogenous regressors and strictly exogenous instruments is proposed. The new estimator, called the Integrated Instrumental Variables (IIV) estimator, only...
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Fiscal And Monetary Policy Responses To Oil Price Shocks In Oil Importing Low Income Countries
August 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper considers monetary and fiscal policy responses to oil price shocks in low income oil importing countries. The author examines the dynamic properties and the welfare implications of a...
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Backtesting Value-at-Risk Models: A Multivariate Approach
April 3, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The purpose of this paper is to develop a new and simple backtesting procedure that extends the previous work into the multivariate framework. The authors propose to use the multivariate...
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Modelling Overnight And Daytime Returns Using A Multivariate GARCH-Copula Model
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors introduce a multivariate GARCH-Copula model to describe joint dynamics of overnight and daytime returns for multiple assets. The conditional mean and variance of individual overnight...
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Backtesting Portfolio Value-at-Risk With Estimated Portfolio Weights
November 21, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper theoretically and empirically analyzes backtesting portfolio VaR with estimation risk in an intrinsically multivariate framework. For the first time in the literature, it takes into...
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Assessing The Competitiveness Of International Financial Services In Particular Locations: A Survey Of Methods and Perspectives
November 7, 2007, 12:00am PST
The International Financial Services (IFS) industry is restructuring internally and by location. This paper outlines the economic forces and analytical methods that may be applied to examine the...
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Exports And Productivity? Comparable Evidence For 14 Countries
December 5, 2007, 12:00am PST
The authors use comparable micro level panel data for 14 countries and a set of identically specified empirical models to investigate the relationship between exports and productivity. These...
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Financial Crises, Safety Nets And Regulation
November 8, 2008, 12:00am PST
The historical record shows that financial crises are far from being a rare a phenomenon; they occur often enough to be considered part of the workings of finance capitalism. While there is no...
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Rescuing Banks From The Effects Of The Financial Crisis
September 22, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines government policies aimed at rescuing banks from the effects of the great financial crisis of 2007-2009. To delimit the scope of the analysis, the authors concentrate on the...
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A Federated Approach to Information Management in Grids
October 25, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper proposes a novel approach to managing information in grids. The proposed approach is an add-on information system that provides unification and federation of grid information services....
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Parallel Data Mining for Medical Informatics
January 20, 2009, 12:00am PST
As in many fields the data deluge impacts all aspects of Life Sciences from chemistry data in PubChem; genetic sequence data through health records. This data demands analysis and mining...
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Collective Collaborative Tagging System
September 23, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Currently in the Internet many collaborative tagging sites exist, but there is the need for a service to integrate the data from the multiple sites to form a large and unified set of collaborative...
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Dynamic Resource-Critical Workflow Scheduling in Heterogeneous Environments
August 6, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Effective workflow scheduling is a key but challenging issue in heterogeneous environments due to the heterogeneity and dynamism. Based on the observations that not all tasks can run on all...
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Parallel Data Mining on Multicore Clusters
August 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The ever increasing number of cores per chip will be accompanied by a pervasive data deluge whose size will probably increase even faster than CPU core count over the next few years. This suggests...
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Editorial Introduction: Special Issue on Grids and Geospatial Information Systems
June 30, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Grids and Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) are both based on distributed service architectures and have complementary capabilities. GIS systems provide a comprehensive set of services for...
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Principles and Experiences: Building a Hybrid Metadata Service for Service Oriented Architecture Based Grid Applications
March 2, 2008, 12:00am PST
To link multiple varying Grids together, there is a need for an Information System which will act as a translator for accessing information from other Grid's Information Services. This study...
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Clustering Analysis of Collaborative Tagging Systems by Using the Graph Model
May 22, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper proposes a new graph model for folksonomy analysis. In order to compare the proposed model with the vector space model, which is widely used in the information retrieval field, the...
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A Collaborative Framework for Scientific Data Analysis and Visualization
February 22, 2008, 12:00am PST
Human interpretation is a common practice in many scientific data analyses. After the data is processed to a certain extent, the remainder of the analyses is performed as a series of steps of...
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Hybrid Consistency Framework for Distributed Annotation Records in a Collaborative Environment
March 6, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper describes a novel hybrid consistency framework that supports collaboration and maintains consistency among Distributed Annotation Records, which are replicas of the same document, kept...
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Using Clouds to Provide Grids Higher-Levels of Abstraction and Explicit Support for Usage Modes
April 8, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Grids in their current form of deployment and implementation have not been as successful as hoped in engendering distributed applications. Amongst other reasons, the level of detail that needs to...
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Supporting Event-Based Unified Data Access/query Over Integrated Data-Views for Decision Making in Geographic Information Systems
May 10, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Geographic information is critical for building disaster planning, crisis management and early-warning systems. Decision making in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) increasingly relies on...
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Parallel Data Mining on Multicore Systems
May 12, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The ever increasing number of cores per chip will be accompanied by a pervasive data deluge whose size will probably increase even faster than CPU core count over the next few years. This suggests...
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Architecture for Composable Scientific Data Analysis
January 31, 2008, 12:00am PST
In recent years there has been an exponential growth in the amount of data that needs to be processed by scientific applications. Most of this data is distributed across different geographical...
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An Orchestration for Distributed Web Service Handlers
January 15, 2008, 12:00am PST
Web Service is a standardization effort to interoperate loosely-coupled applications. A Web Service interaction benefits and sometimes requires additive functionalities such as security and...
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QuakeSim: Web Services, Portals, and Infrastructure for Geophysics
October 22, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper discuss significant recent updates and revisions to the QuakeSim portal and Web services, which provide access to geophysical applications, data sets, and real time sensor data. These...
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A Scalable Framework for the Collaborative Analysis of Scientific Data
December 12, 2007, 12:00am PST
Data analysis involving the processing of large amounts of distributed data is becoming increasingly common. This is especially true in the scientific community where voluminous data is routinely...
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Supporting Event-Based Unified Data Access/query Over Integrated Dataviews for Decision Making in Geographic Information Systems
December 29, 2007, 12:00am PST
Geographic information is critical to effective and collaborative decision making in earth related disaster planning, crisis management and early-warning systems. Decision making in Geographic...
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Performance of Multicore Systems on Parallel Datamining Services
February 19, 2008, 12:00am PST
Multicore systems are of growing importance and 64-128 cores can be expected in a few years. The authors expect datamining to be an important application class of general importance and are...
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Building QuakeSim Portlets With GTLAB
September 24, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The QuakeSim portal is a problem solving environment to develop a solid Earth science framework for modelling and understanding earthquakes. In this study, the authors proposed an evolutionary...
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Integration of Collaborative Information Systems in Web 2.0
June 29, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper describes a new integration model that uses tools and services for supporting Web 2.0. This integration model defines a structure for a missing feature of Web 2.0. The model integrates...
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Scalable, Fault-Tolerant Management of Grid Services
July 27, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The service-oriented architecture has come a long way in solving the problem of reusability of existing software resources. Grid applications today are composed of a large number of loosely...
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Cyberinfrastructure and Web 2.0
January 14, 2008, 12:00am PST
The authors review the emergence of a diverse collection of modern Internet scale programming approaches, collectively known as Web 2.0, and compare these to the goals of cyberinfrastructure and...
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Green IT - Key Contributor to Campus Sustainability
September 23, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Although college and university campuses are increasingly focusing on sustainability efforts, the direct impact of IT on institutional carbon levels and the potential for new technologies to...
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SQMD: Architecture for Scalable, Distributed Database System Built on Virtual Private Servers
August 11, 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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BioVLAB-Microarray: Microarray Data Analysis in Virtual Environment
October 22, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Microarray technology is a high-throughput experimental technique that can measure expression levels of hundreds of thousands of genes simultaneously. To interpret massive data from...
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The QuakeSim Portal and Services: New Approaches to Science Gateway Development Techniques
February 11, 2009, 12:00am PST
Traditional techniques in building science portals and gateways are being challenged by new techniques such as Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing. This paper discusses some of the efforts to evaluate...
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Enabling Large Scale Scientific Computations for Expressed Sequence Tag Sequencing Over Grid and Cloud Computing Clusters
May 18, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Compute-intensive biological applications are heavily reliant on the availability of computing resources. Grid based HPC clusters and emerging Cloud computing clusters provide a large scale...
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Parallel Data Mining From Multicore to Cloudy Grids
February 5, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper describe a suite of data mining tools that cover clustering, information retrieval and the mapping of high dimensional data to low dimensions for visualization. Preliminary applications...
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