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Implementing Educational Technology in Higher Education: A Strategic Approach
July 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Although the move toward implementing technology in higher education is driven by an increasing number of competitors as well as student demand, there is still considerable resistance to embracing...
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High Fidelity Denial of Service (DoS) Experimentation
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Experimentation with security attacks introduces additional requirements compared to traditional networking and distributed system experiments. High capacity attack flows can push systems beyond...
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Analysis of a Denial of Service Attack on TCP
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper analyzes a network-based denial of service attack for IP (Internet Protocol) based networks. It is popularly called SYN flooding. It works by an attacker sending many TCP (Transmission...
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Hashing Techniques for Mobile Device Forensics
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Previous research conducted at the National Institute of Standards and Technology has shown that mobile device internal memory hash values are variable when performing back-to-back acquisitions....
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Towards Optimizing Hadoop Provisioning in the Cloud
May 30, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Data analytics is becoming increasingly prominent in a variety of application areas ranging from extracting business intelligence to processing data from scientific studies. MapReduce programming...
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A Simple Secure M-Commerce Protocol SSMCP
March 31, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The trend in technology is such that small lightweight low complexity devices, like PDAs, cell-phones. .. will become one of the more predominant computing platforms. Consequently, these devices...
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Analyzing and Comparing the Protection Quality of Security Enhanced Operating Systems
January 5, 2009, 12:00am PST
Host compromise is a serious computer security problem today. To better protect hosts, several Mandatory Access Control systems, such as Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) and AppArmor, have been...
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Supporting Real-World Activities in Database Management Systems
October 21, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The cycle of processing the data in many application domains is complex and may involve real-world activities that are external to the database, e.g., wet-lab experiments, instrument readings, and...
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TraXplorer: Multi-Focus Interaction in Time-Series Data Visualization
August 13, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Information visualization shows tremendous potential for helping both expert and casual users alike make sense of temporal data, but current time series visualization tools provide poor support...
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Real-Time Data Delivery and Remote Visualization Through Multi-Layer Interfaces
December 9, 2008, 12:00am PST
The high resolution NEXRAD Level II data provides critical information for researchers and the broader community to understand, monitor, and predict weather in a timely manner. There are several...
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Strategic Planning White Paper: Student Access and Success Working Group in College of Agriculture
February 2, 2009, 12:00am PST
Purdue Agriculture has an excellent national and international reputation for providing a great education for its students. Many of the programs are among the top tier in the country and the...
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Stochastic TCP: A Statistical Approach to Congestion Avoidance
February 21, 2008, 12:00am PST
High speed wide area networks offer a challenging environment for transmission protocols seeking an optimal balance between efficiency and fairness. Poor TCP performance in these environments is...
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Case Studies
Emulation Versus Simulation: A Case Study of TCP-Targeted Denial of Service Attacks
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
This case study speaks about the application of simulation and emulation in the attack experimentation of Denial of Service (DoS). For this purpose, a low-rate TCP-targeted DoS attack has been...
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Work in Progress - Using Graphical Programming Languages in the Introductory Programming Course
July 18, 2009, 12:00am PDT
First year engineering students are noted to have either a strong dislike for programming or an inability to write effective programs. This poses a problem, since many engineering departments...
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Alchemist: A Transparent Dependence Distance Profiling Infrastructure
December 20, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper describes event-based software that provide new opportunities for automatic refactoring such as Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs), web applications, and network protocols. Techniques...
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Equity Returns At The Turn Of The Month
August 1, 2006, 12:00am PDT
A turn-of-the-month effect in U.S. equity returns was initially identified by Lakonishok and Smidt (1988) using the DJIA for the period 1897-1986. According to the turn-of-the-month effect, equity...
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The Characteristics Of Politically Connected Firms
June 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Evidence from firms in 47 countries shows that companies connected with officials have higher leverage and higher market shares, but they underperform nonconnected companies on an accounting...
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Determinants Of Export Growth In Transition Economy Firms: Institutions, Aspirations, Incentives, And Inertia
September 30, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Exports are an important source of revenue, especially in transitional economies. To better understand export growth, the paper examines the influence of institutional development, managerial...
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Some Evidence On The Nature And Growth Of Input Trade
February 26, 2010, 12:00am PST
In this paper the authors examine the determinants of input trade. They employ an extension of a widely used model of intermediate input trade in which inputs and final goods are considered...
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A Symmetry Hypothesis And Measurement Biases In The Factor Content Of Trade
February 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Laura Puzzello revisits Reimer (2006), and Trefler and Zhu (2005, 2006) (RTZ) tests of the Vanek proposition in the presence of international differences in production techniques and global...
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How Strong Is The Love Of Variety?
November 1, 2006, 12:00am PST
Models with monopolistic competition and Constant Elasticity of Substitution (CES) preferences have become a mainstay of theoretical and empirical work in international trade. However, the...
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Pricing Of Advertisements On The Internet
June 1, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Online advertisements are increasingly becoming an attractive channel for advertising. Pricing for online ads has evolved over time, and different auction-based policies are employed by website...
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Cultural Effects On Price Format Choices: Evidence From EBay's International Marketplace
January 7, 2007, 12:00am PST
Price format choices (auction, buy-it-now and fixed price) at international marketplaces are influenced by the cultural and economic factors of the market countries, as well as those of the...
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Hedging Price Volatility Using Fast Transport
February 24, 2010, 12:00am PST
Purchasing goods from distant locations introduces a significant lag between when a product is shipped and when it arrives. These transit lags are trade barriers for firms facing volatile demand,...
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The Quality Of Accounting Information In Politically Connected Firms
December 11, 2007, 12:00am PST
Recent studies have documented systematic exchanges of favors between politicians and firms, and that connected firms, on average gain from political ties. Since these ties are often to a top...
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Organizational Imprinting: Informing Firm Behavior In Domestic And International Contexts
October 22, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors argue that organizational imprinting theory provides an important causal mechanism and originating source for numerous behaviors which are applicable to several research literatures....
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Sheltering Corporate Assets From Political Extraction
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
The authors hypothesizes that firms structure their asset holdings so as to shelter assets from extraction by politicians and bureaucrats. Specifically, in countries where the threat of political...
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The Social Construction Of The Responsible Corporate Citizen: Sustainability Reports Of The Global Automotive Firms
May 6, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The constitutive meanings of responsible corporate environmental citizenship are to be found in global discourses. The author uses Gubrium and Holstein's framework on interpretive practice to...
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A Periodic Review Base Stock Inventory System With Sales
April 30, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper considers a system in which an order is placed every T periods to bring the inventory position up to the base stock S. It accepts demand until the inventory position reaches a sales...
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An Inventory Allocation System With Backorders And Sales Rejection
November 11, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper considers a variant of the periodic review system with a virtual warehouse that is due to Eppen and Schrage (1981). Depending on the realized pattern of demand during the delivery...
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Economic Performance And Enterprise Culture
June 15, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper explores the impact of economic performance on national culture and specifically, whether higher levels of economic performance contribute to the formation of an "Enterprise" culture...
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Large Shareholder Diversification And Corporate Risk-Taking
January 22, 2010, 12:00am PST
Using new data for the universe of firms covered in Amadeus, the paper reconstructs the equity portfolios of shareholders who hold equity stakes in private and publicly-traded European firms. This...
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The Efficiency Cost Of Child Tax Benefits
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Families with children receive preferential treatment in the U.S. federal income tax. Over the past 15 years, the real value of child tax benefits approximately doubled reaching nearly $1,900 per...
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Moral Hazard And Peer Monitoring In A Laboratory Microfinance Experiment
February 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
Most problems with formal sector credit lending to the poor in developing countries can be attributed to the lack of information and inadequate collateral. One common feature of successful credit...
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The Impact Of Shopbot Use On Prices And Price Dispersion: Evidence From Online Book Retailing
January 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
This paper seeks to examine the impact of changes in shopbot use over time on pricing behavior in the Internet book market. Using price data obtained from a leading shopbot, combined with...
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Does Web Disclosure Matter?
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
The purpose of this paper to examine the way in which corporate website disclosures complement or substitute for firm-specific information provided by other sources- and how they affect the stock...
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Do Information Security Disclosures Reflect Future Incidents?
March 10, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper investigates how the nature of security related disclosures in financial reports is associated with breach announcements in the subsequent period. First build a decision tree to...
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Does The Exchange Rate Belong In Monetary Policy Rules? New Answers From a DSGE Model With Endogenous Tradability And Trade Frictions
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper develops a 2-region DSGE model that integrates the theory of comparative advantage or endogenous tradability into a monetary model with nominal and real rigidities. The author fined...
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The Role Of External Accountants In Start-Up Firms
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Examining survey responses compiled from individuals in the process of starting a business, this study investigates factors influencing an entrepreneur's choice to hire an accountant to prepare...
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The Dynamics Of Organizational Culture And Knowledge Management
November 28, 2007, 12:00am PST
In the current knowledge driven business environment, sustainable competitive advantage is enabled through efficient management of intellectual resources (Ashworth et al. 2004; Kogut and Zander...
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Software
MultiSpec 2012.5.19 (Mac)
May 19, 2012, 12:00am PDT
MultiSpec is a processing system for interactively analyzing Earth observational multispectral image data such as that produced by the Landsat series of Earth satellites and hyperspectral image...
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Virtual MAN: A VLAN Management System for Enterprise Networks
June 15, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors present Virtual MAN, a system which addresses plethora of unique challenges network operators face in managing Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANs) in enterprise...
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Extracting Network-Wide Correlated Changes From Longitudinal Configuration Data
January 14, 2009, 12:00am PST
IP network operators face the challenge of making and managing router configuration changes to serve rapidly evolving user and organizational needs. Changes are expressed in low-level languages,...
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A Systematic Approach for Evolving VLAN Designs
December 21, 2009, 12:00am PST
Enterprise networks are large and complex, and their designs must be frequently altered to adapt to changing organizational needs. The process of redesigning and reconfiguring enterprise networks...
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A Statistical View of the Transient Signals That Support a Wireless Call
May 3, 2007, 12:00am PDT
A wireless call in a cellular network requires the cooperation of a wireless enabled device such as a cell phone and a dynamic set of base stations, antennas and other network elements, with...
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Bouncer: Policy-Based Fine Grained Access Control in Large Databases
April 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Current access control solutions in databases are based on tables and views. While view access control approach is flexible, it does not scale when the number of users (and therefore necessary...
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Purdue Calumet Crib Sheet 2.1 (iOS)
May 19, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Created by Purdue University Calumet for our alumni, "Crib Sheet" is your way to stay current with campus news, sports highlights, alumni events and benefits, and much more. The app is also your...
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Jetpack Reader 1.2.1 (iOS)
October 12, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Learning should be interactive and available anywhere. With Jetpack, instructors can combine text, internet links, video, and audio into a comprehensive mobile learning package.
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Pacifier: HighThroughput, Reliable Multicast Without "Crying Babies" in Wireless Mesh Networks
January 23, 2009, 12:00am PST
In contrast to unicast routing, high-throughput reliable multicast routing in Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) has received little attention. There are two primary challenges to supporting...
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Exhaustive Search for Small Fully Absorbing Sets and the Corresponding Low Error-Floor Decoder
April 29, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper provides an exhaustive search algorithm for Finding small Fully Absorbing Sets (FASs) of arbitrary Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) codes. In particular, given any LDPC code, the problem...
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On the Capacity of Immediately-Decodable Coding Schemes for Wireless Stored-Video Broadcast With Hard Deadline Constraints
January 6, 2011, 12:00am PST
Multimedia streaming applications have stringent Quality-of-Service (QoS) requirements. Typically, each packet is associated with a packet delivery deadline. This work models and considers...
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Provable Partial Key Escrow
March 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors first propose two new concepts concerning the notion of key escrow schemes: provable partiality and independence. Roughly speaking, a scheme has provable partiality if...
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Immunizing Mobile Ad Hoc Networks Against Collaborative Attacks Using Cooperative Immune Model
December 11, 2011, 12:00am PST
In this paper, a security problem of cooperative immunization against collaborative attacks such as blackhole attacks and wormhole attacks, in the mobile ad hoc networks such as the Worldwide...
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A Novel Robust Routing Scheme Against Rushing Attacks in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
August 28, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Standard on-demand routing protocols in wireless ad hoc networks were not originally designed to deal with security threats. Because of that, malicious users have been finding ways to attack...
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Real-time Mobile-Cloud Computing for Context-Aware Blind Navigation
July 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Context-awareness is a critical aspect of safe navigation, especially for the blind and visually impaired in unfamiliar environments. Existing mobile devices for context-aware navigation fall...
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Biometrics-Based Authentication: A New Approach
April 27, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Authentication is a fundamental issue to any trust oriented computing system and also a critical part in many security protocols. Performing authentication is notoriously difficult. Biometrics has...
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A New Scheme for Anonymous Secure Group Communication
September 11, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Anonymity is an important feature in many two party communication systems. Its main meaning is that either the message sender or the receiver (or both) is unidentifiable to other users, even...
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Attribute Based Group Key Management
May 6, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Attribute based systems enable fine-grained access control among a group of users each identified by a set of attributes. Secure collaborative applications need such flexible attribute based...
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Private Searching for Single and Conjunctive Keywords on Streaming Data
August 15, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Private searching on streaming data allows a user to collect potentially useful information from huge streaming sources of data without revealing his or her searching criteria. This technique can...
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3-Clique Attacks in Online Social Networks
September 9, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Online Social Networks (OSNs) have become ubiquitous in the past few years, counting hundreds of millions of people as members. In this paper, the authors show that the ease of accessing third...
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A Framework for Composition and Enforcement of Privacy-Aware and Context-Driven Authorization Mechanism for Complex Systems
October 19, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Security and privacy of complex systems is a concern due to proliferation of cyber based technologies. Several researchers have pointed out that for the proper enforcement of privacy rules in a...
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Towards a Differentially Private Data Anonymization
January 31, 2012, 12:00am PST
Maximizing data usage and minimizing privacy risk are two conflicting goals. Organizations always hide the owners' identities and then apply a set of transformations on their data before releasing...
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Specification and Verification of a Context-Based Access Control Framework for Cyber Physical Systems
January 27, 2012, 12:00am PST
Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) are complex systems that operate in a dynamic environment where security characteristics of contexts are unique, and uniform access to secure resources anywhere...
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Nesting Forward-Mode AD in a Functional Framework
April 16, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The authors discuss the augmentation of a functional-programming language with a derivative-taking operator implemented with forward-mode Automatic Differentiation (AD). The primary technical...
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Encapsulating Objects With Confined Types
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Object-oriented languages provide little support for encapsulating objects. Reference semantics allows objects to escape their defining scope, and the pervasive aliasing that ensues remains a...
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Combining Offline and Online Optimizations: Register Allocation and Method Inlining
June 6, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Fast dynamic compilers trade code quality for short compilation time in order to balance application performance and startup time. This paper investigates the interplay of two of the most...
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An Emprical Evaluation of Memory Management Alternatives for Real-Time Java
September 2, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Memory management is a critical issue for correctness and performance of hard-real time systems. Java environments usually incorporate high-throughput garbage collection algorithms, but these...
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Accurate Garbage Collection in Uncooperative Environments With Lazy Pointer Stacks
February 8, 2007, 12:00am PST
Implementing a new programming language by the means of a translator to an existing language is attractive as it provides portability over all platforms supported by the host language and reduces...
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A Technology Compatibility Kit for Safety Critical Java
August 13, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Safety Critical Java is a specification being built on top a subset of interfaces from the Real-Time Specification for Java. It is designed to ease development and analysis of safety critical...
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CDx: A Family of Real-Time Java Benchmarks
June 17, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Driven by the popularity of Java, the availability of development tools, and the wide library support, the Real-Time Specification for Java (RTSJ) is on the rise. It is used in avionics, shipboard...
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High-Performance Transactional Event Processing
February 3, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper presents a transactional framework for low-latency, high-performance, concurrent event processing in Java. At the heart of the authors' framework lies Reflexes, a restricted programming...
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Scheduling Hard Real-Time Garbage Collection
September 11, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Managed languages such as Java and C# are increasingly being considered for hard real-time applications because of their productivity and software engineering advantages. Automatic memory...
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One Stack to Run Them All: Reducing Concurrent Analysis to Sequential Analysis Under Priority Scheduling
August 7, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors present a reduction from a concurrent real-time program with priority preemptive scheduling to a sequential program that has the same set of behaviors. Whereas many static analyses of...
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A Type System for Data-Centric Synchronization
April 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Data-centric synchronization groups fields of objects into atomic sets to indicate they must be updated atomically. Each atomic set has associated units of work, code fragments that preserve the...
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The Eval That Men Do: A Large-Scale Study of the Use of Eval in JavaScript Applications
April 15, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Transforming text into executable code with a function such as Java-Script's eval endows programmers with the ability to extend applications, at any time, and in almost any way they choose. But,...
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Collecting Transactional Garbage
May 27, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Transactional memory holds some promise to improve the practice of concurrent programming, but achieving acceptable performance remains an issue for large-scale adoption of the technology....
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Replicating Real-Time Garbage Collector
September 17, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Real-time Java is becoming a viable platform for real-time applications, bringing new challenges to a garbage collector. A real-time collector has to be incremental as not to cause deadline misses...
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Dissecting Video Server Selection Strategies in the YouTube CDN
March 12, 2011, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors conduct a detailed study of the YouTube CDN with a view to understanding the mechanisms and policies used to determine which data centers users download video from....
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STAMP: Toward Reclaiming Email Address Privacy
April 7, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Email has grown into one of the dominant forms of communication in the 21st century. However, email systems were designed without security in mind, thus allowing attackers to abuse the system and...
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RelSamp: Preserving Application Structure in Sampled Flow Measurements
January 15, 2011, 12:00am PST
The Internet has significantly evolved in the number and variety of applications. Network operators need mechanisms to constantly monitor and study these applications. Given modern applications...
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