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Usability and Security of Out-of-Band Channels in Secure Device Pairing Protocols
June 3, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Initiating and bootstrapping secure, yet low-cost, ad-hoc transactions is an important challenge that needs to be over-come if the promise of mobile and pervasive computing is to be fulfilled. For...
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Born Innovators
February 16, 2010, 12:00am PST
These days, innovation and creativity are in high demand in the work world, making them something that a lot of people would like to have. The reality is that some people are more creative and...
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Energy-Efficient Cloud Computing
August 19, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Energy efficiency is increasingly important for future Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), because the increased usage of ICT, together with increasing energy costs and the need to...
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Writing, Literacy and Word-Processing: Changes in the Concept of Literature in the Framework of New Media
January 24, 2010, 12:00am PST
Since electronic text systems tend to replace print media, there is no doubt about their impact on the social system of literary communication in the long run. The main hypothesis of this paper...
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Analysis Of Financial Stability
November 26, 2007, 12:00am PST
There is a remarkable consensus about the framework whereby a Central Bank should fulfill its macro-monetary functions. In sharp contrast, there is no consensus about the framework for achieving...
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Meaning and Mining: The Impact of Implicit Assumptions in Data Mining for the Humanities
September 12, 2008, 12:00am PDT
As the use of data mining and machine learning methods in the humanities becomes more common, it will be increasingly important to examine implicit biases, assumptions, and limitations these...
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On the Construction of Digest Functions for Manual Authentication Protocols
March 8, 2011, 12:00am PST
A digest function is a sort of universal hash that takes a key and a message as its inputs. This paper will study these functions' properties and design in the context of their application in...
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Rational authentication protocols
February 9, 2011, 12:00am PST
The authors use ideas from game theory to transform two families of authentication protocols so that even an intruder attacks a protocol, its payoff will still be lower than when it does not. This...
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Endogenous Growth: A Kaldorian Approach
March 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper explores the Kaldorian approach to endogenous growth theory. The central principles of this approach are explored, including the claims that growth is: demand-led, with trade playing a...
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CEO Replacement Under Private Information
August 3, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines the optimal CEO compensation and replacement policy when the CEO is privately informed about the firm's continuation value under his leadership. Ex ante moral hazard implies...
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LAGE: A Java Framework to Reconstruct Gene Regulatory Networks From Large-Scale Continues Expression Data
November 9, 2012, 12:00am PST
LAGE is a systematic framework developed in Java. The motivation of LAGE is to provide a scalable and parallel solution to reconstruct Gene Regulatory Networks (GRNs) from continuous gene...
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Understanding Financial Derivatives During The South Sea Bubble: The Case Of The South Sea Subscription Shares
April 27, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors demonstrate the existence of something whose existence has never been noted before. During the South Sea Bubble of 1720 there was not only a market for South Sea shares...
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A Compendium Of Policy Instruments To Enhance Financial Stability And Debt Management In Emerging Market Economies
July 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Drawing on available theory and evidence, this paper attempts to identify some key factors contributing to international financial instability to develop taxonomy of policy instruments to enhance...
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Secure Image Retrieval Based on Visual Content and Watermarking Protocol
August 7, 2011, 12:00am PDT
As an interesting application on cloud computing, Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) has attracted a lot of attention, but the focus of previous research work was mainly on improving the...
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The Microcosmic Model of Worm Propagation
August 19, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Each year, large amounts of money and labor are spent on patching the vulnerabilities in operating systems and various popular software to prevent exploitation by worms. Modeling the propagation...
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SchedulingWorkflow Applications Based on Multi-Source Parallel Data Retrieval in Distributed Computing Networks
January 27, 2012, 12:00am PST
Many scientific experiments are carried out in collaboration with researchers around the world to use existing infrastructures and conduct experiments at massive scale. Data produced by such...
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Anatomy of a Hash-based Long Read Sequence Mapping Algorithm for Next Generation DNA Sequencing
November 18, 2010, 12:00am PST
Recently a number of programs have been proposed for mapping short reads to a reference genome. Many of them are heavily optimized for short-read mapping and hence are very efficient for shorter...
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ZIDS: A Privacy-Preserving Intrusion Detection System Using Secure Two-Party Computation Protocols
March 12, 2013, 12:00am PDT
The authors introduce ZIDS, a client-server solution for private detection of intrusions that is suitable for private detection of zero-day attacks in input data. The system includes an Intrusion...
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Controlled Multi-Path Routing in Sensor Networks Using Bezier Curves
January 22, 2010, 12:00am PST
The authors address the problem of extending the lifetime of wireless sensor networks using multi-path routing based on a family of flexible routes with soft quality of service guarantees in terms...
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The Critical Grid Size and Transmission Radius for Local-Minimum-Free Grid Routing InWireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks
March 26, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In grid routing, the plane is tessellated into equal-sized square cells. Two cells are called neighbor cells if they share a common edge, and two nodes are called routing neighbors if they are in...
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Cross-Network Opportunistic Collection of Urgent Data in Wireless Sensor Networks
December 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Ubiquitous smart environments equipped with low-cost and easily-deployable Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) and ever-increasing widespread MobileAd hoc NETworks (MANETs) are opening brand new...
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Management of Server Farms for Performance and Profit
May 20, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The business model whereby a company makes money by selling computing services which are delivered through large server farms, or data centers, is becoming increasingly important. Variously...
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Adaptive Linear Filtering Compression on Realtime Sensor Networks
March 11, 2011, 12:00am PST
The authors present a lightweight lossless compression algorithm for realtime sensor networks. Their proposed Adaptive Linear Filtering Compression (ALFC) algorithm performs predictive compression...
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Self-Managed Services Conceptual Model in Trustworthy Clouds' Infrastructure
January 23, 2011, 12:00am PST
Current clouds infrastructure do not provide the full potential of automated self-managed services. Cloud infrastructure management are supported by clouds' internal employees and contractors...
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Rule Systems for Run-Time Monitoring: From EAGLE to RULER
November 21, 2008, 12:00am PST
In Barringer et al., EAGLE was introduced as a general purpose rule-based temporal logic for specifying run-time monitors. A novel interpretative trace-checking scheme via stepwise transformation...
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Facilitating Efficient Object Tracking in Large-Scale Traceability Networks
October 13, 2011, 12:00am PDT
With recent advances in technologies such as radio-frequency identification and new standards such as the electronic product code, large-scale traceability is emerging as a key differentiator in a...
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Analyzing Team Decision-Making in Tactical Scenarios
October 3, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Team decision making is a bundle of interdependent activities that involve gathering, interpreting and exchanging information; creating and identifying alternative courses of action; choosing...
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Understanding the Quality of Monitoring for Network Management
January 13, 2008, 12:00am PST
The vitality and utility of a network is affected significantly by the network management system which is used to administer and monitor the network. However, models that can characterize how good...
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A Polymorphic Intermediate Verification Language: Design and Logical Encoding
January 4, 2010, 12:00am PST
Intermediate languages are a paradigm to separate concerns in software verification systems when bridging the gap between programming languages and the logics understood by theorem provers. While...
Provided by Oxford University Computing Services (OUCS)
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EAR: An Energy and Activity-Aware Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks in Smart Environments
April 26, 2012, 12:00am PDT
A sensor network, unlike a traditional communication network, is deeply embedded in physical environments and its operation is mainly driven by the event activities in the environment. In...
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Self-Managed Services Conceptual Model in Trustworthy Clouds' Infrastructure
January 23, 2011, 12:00am PST
Current clouds infrastructure do not provide the full potential of automated self-managed services. Cloud infrastructure management are supported by clouds' internal employees and contractors...
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Visual Programming in BioBike, a Web-Based Biocomputing Environment
July 23, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Within BioBike, a web-based biocomputing environment, the BBL language enables biologists to program novel genomic algorithms. To engage users without prior programming experience, the paper has...
Provided by Oxford University Press
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Whitepapers
ZIDS: A Privacy-Preserving Intrusion Detection System Using Secure Two-Party Computation Protocols
March 12, 2013, 12:00am PDT
The authors introduce ZIDS, a client-server solution for private detection of intrusions that is suitable for private detection of zero-day attacks in input data. The system includes an Intrusion...
Provided by Oxford University Press
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Whitepapers
Anatomy of a Hash-based Long Read Sequence Mapping Algorithm for Next Generation DNA Sequencing
November 18, 2010, 12:00am PST
Recently a number of programs have been proposed for mapping short reads to a reference genome. Many of them are heavily optimized for short-read mapping and hence are very efficient for shorter...
Provided by Oxford University Press
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Whitepapers
SchedulingWorkflow Applications Based on Multi-Source Parallel Data Retrieval in Distributed Computing Networks
January 27, 2012, 12:00am PST
Many scientific experiments are carried out in collaboration with researchers around the world to use existing infrastructures and conduct experiments at massive scale. Data produced by such...
Provided by Oxford University Press
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Whitepapers
The Microcosmic Model of Worm Propagation
August 19, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Each year, large amounts of money and labor are spent on patching the vulnerabilities in operating systems and various popular software to prevent exploitation by worms. Modeling the propagation...
Provided by Oxford University Press
-
Whitepapers
Secure Image Retrieval Based on Visual Content and Watermarking Protocol
August 7, 2011, 12:00am PDT
As an interesting application on cloud computing, Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) has attracted a lot of attention, but the focus of previous research work was mainly on improving the...
Provided by Oxford University Press
-
Whitepapers
LAGE: A Java Framework to Reconstruct Gene Regulatory Networks From Large-Scale Continues Expression Data
November 9, 2012, 12:00am PST
LAGE is a systematic framework developed in Java. The motivation of LAGE is to provide a scalable and parallel solution to reconstruct Gene Regulatory Networks (GRNs) from continuous gene...
Provided by Oxford University
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Whitepapers
Self-Managed Services Conceptual Model in Trustworthy Clouds' Infrastructure
January 23, 2011, 12:00am PST
Current clouds infrastructure do not provide the full potential of automated self-managed services. Cloud infrastructure management are supported by clouds' internal employees and contractors...
Provided by Oxford University
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White Papers
EAR: An Energy and Activity-Aware Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks in Smart Environments
April 26, 2012, 12:00am PDT
A sensor network, unlike a traditional communication network, is deeply embedded in physical environments and its operation is mainly driven by the event activities in the environment. In...
Provided by Oxford University Press
-
White Papers
A Polymorphic Intermediate Verification Language: Design and Logical Encoding
January 4, 2010, 12:00am PST
Intermediate languages are a paradigm to separate concerns in software verification systems when bridging the gap between programming languages and the logics understood by theorem provers. While...
Provided by Oxford University Computing Services (OUCS)
-
White Papers
Understanding the Quality of Monitoring for Network Management
January 13, 2008, 12:00am PST
The vitality and utility of a network is affected significantly by the network management system which is used to administer and monitor the network. However, models that can characterize how good...
Provided by Oxford University Press
-
White Papers
Analyzing Team Decision-Making in Tactical Scenarios
October 3, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Team decision making is a bundle of interdependent activities that involve gathering, interpreting and exchanging information; creating and identifying alternative courses of action; choosing...
Provided by Oxford University Press
-
White Papers
Facilitating Efficient Object Tracking in Large-Scale Traceability Networks
October 13, 2011, 12:00am PDT
With recent advances in technologies such as radio-frequency identification and new standards such as the electronic product code, large-scale traceability is emerging as a key differentiator in a...
Provided by Oxford University Press
-
White Papers
Rule Systems for Run-Time Monitoring: From EAGLE to RULER
November 21, 2008, 12:00am PST
In Barringer et al., EAGLE was introduced as a general purpose rule-based temporal logic for specifying run-time monitors. A novel interpretative trace-checking scheme via stepwise transformation...
Provided by Oxford University Press
-
White Papers
Self-Managed Services Conceptual Model in Trustworthy Clouds' Infrastructure
January 23, 2011, 12:00am PST
Current clouds infrastructure do not provide the full potential of automated self-managed services. Cloud infrastructure management are supported by clouds' internal employees and contractors...
Provided by Oxford University Computing Services (OUCS)
-
White Papers
Adaptive Linear Filtering Compression on Realtime Sensor Networks
March 11, 2011, 12:00am PST
The authors present a lightweight lossless compression algorithm for realtime sensor networks. Their proposed Adaptive Linear Filtering Compression (ALFC) algorithm performs predictive compression...
Provided by Oxford University Press
-
White Papers
Management of Server Farms for Performance and Profit
May 20, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The business model whereby a company makes money by selling computing services which are delivered through large server farms, or data centers, is becoming increasingly important. Variously...
Provided by Oxford University Press
-
White Papers
Cross-Network Opportunistic Collection of Urgent Data in Wireless Sensor Networks
December 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Ubiquitous smart environments equipped with low-cost and easily-deployable Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) and ever-increasing widespread MobileAd hoc NETworks (MANETs) are opening brand new...
Provided by Oxford University Press
-
White Papers
The Critical Grid Size and Transmission Radius for Local-Minimum-Free Grid Routing InWireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks
March 26, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In grid routing, the plane is tessellated into equal-sized square cells. Two cells are called neighbor cells if they share a common edge, and two nodes are called routing neighbors if they are in...
Provided by Oxford University Press
-
White Papers
Controlled Multi-Path Routing in Sensor Networks Using Bezier Curves
January 22, 2010, 12:00am PST
The authors address the problem of extending the lifetime of wireless sensor networks using multi-path routing based on a family of flexible routes with soft quality of service guarantees in terms...
Provided by Oxford University Press
-
White Papers
A Compendium Of Policy Instruments To Enhance Financial Stability And Debt Management In Emerging Market Economies
July 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Drawing on available theory and evidence, this paper attempts to identify some key factors contributing to international financial instability to develop taxonomy of policy instruments to enhance...
Provided by Oxford University Press
-
White Papers
Understanding Financial Derivatives During The South Sea Bubble: The Case Of The South Sea Subscription Shares
April 27, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors demonstrate the existence of something whose existence has never been noted before. During the South Sea Bubble of 1720 there was not only a market for South Sea shares...
Provided by Oxford University Press
-
White Papers
CEO Replacement Under Private Information
August 3, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines the optimal CEO compensation and replacement policy when the CEO is privately informed about the firm's continuation value under his leadership. Ex ante moral hazard implies...
Provided by Oxford University Press
-
White Papers
Endogenous Growth: A Kaldorian Approach
March 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper explores the Kaldorian approach to endogenous growth theory. The central principles of this approach are explored, including the claims that growth is: demand-led, with trade playing a...
Provided by Oxford University Press
-
White Papers
Rational authentication protocols
February 9, 2011, 12:00am PST
The authors use ideas from game theory to transform two families of authentication protocols so that even an intruder attacks a protocol, its payoff will still be lower than when it does not. This...
Provided by Oxford University Computing Services (OUCS)
-
White Papers
On the Construction of Digest Functions for Manual Authentication Protocols
March 8, 2011, 12:00am PST
A digest function is a sort of universal hash that takes a key and a message as its inputs. This paper will study these functions' properties and design in the context of their application in...
Provided by Oxford University Computing Services (OUCS)
-
White Papers
Meaning and Mining: The Impact of Implicit Assumptions in Data Mining for the Humanities
September 12, 2008, 12:00am PDT
As the use of data mining and machine learning methods in the humanities becomes more common, it will be increasingly important to examine implicit biases, assumptions, and limitations these...
Provided by Oxford University Press
-
White Papers
Analysis Of Financial Stability
November 26, 2007, 12:00am PST
There is a remarkable consensus about the framework whereby a Central Bank should fulfill its macro-monetary functions. In sharp contrast, there is no consensus about the framework for achieving...
Provided by Oxford University Press
-
White Papers
Writing, Literacy and Word-Processing: Changes in the Concept of Literature in the Framework of New Media
January 24, 2010, 12:00am PST
Since electronic text systems tend to replace print media, there is no doubt about their impact on the social system of literary communication in the long run. The main hypothesis of this paper...
Provided by Oxford University Press
-
White Papers
Energy-Efficient Cloud Computing
August 19, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Energy efficiency is increasingly important for future Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), because the increased usage of ICT, together with increasing energy costs and the need to...
Provided by Oxford University Press
-
White Papers
Born Innovators
February 16, 2010, 12:00am PST
These days, innovation and creativity are in high demand in the work world, making them something that a lot of people would like to have. The reality is that some people are more creative and...
Provided by Oxford University Press
-
White Papers
Usability and Security of Out-of-Band Channels in Secure Device Pairing Protocols
June 3, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Initiating and bootstrapping secure, yet low-cost, ad-hoc transactions is an important challenge that needs to be over-come if the promise of mobile and pervasive computing is to be fulfilled. For...
Provided by Oxford University Computing Services (OUCS)
-
White Papers
Visual Programming in BioBike, a Web-Based Biocomputing Environment
July 23, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Within BioBike, a web-based biocomputing environment, the BBL language enables biologists to program novel genomic algorithms. To engage users without prior programming experience, the paper has...
Provided by Oxford University Press
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