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Services Market Is Key To Open Source Software
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Open source software has become a major and fast-growing presence in the computer industry in recent years. Professor Tunay Tunca of Stanford Graduate School of Business and his co-authors argue...
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Developing Nations Offer Big Market Opportunities
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Paul Otellini knows a thing or two about making unorthodox career moves. In 2005, he became the first non-engineer named to the top post at Santa Clara-based Intel, the world's leading...
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You Can't Buy It If You Don't Know It Exists
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Rock groups can lose as much as 40% of their potential sales because consumers don't know enough about them, says the Stanford Business School's Alan Sorensen. There are lots of crowded markets...
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Selling Vs. Selling Out
February 27, 2009, 12:00am PST
The real question is not whether social investing will become real, or whether it will become a more important asset class. Social investment is growing, and its growth is in line with societal...
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"The Time Vs. Money Effect": Shifting Product Attitudes And Decisions Through Personal Connection
July 7, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The results of five field and laboratory experiments reveal a "Time versus money effect" whereby activating time (vs. money) leads to a favorable shift in product attitudes and decisions. Because...
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Rating The Ratings: How Good Are Commercial Governance Ratings?
June 26, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Proxy advisory and corporate governance rating firms play an increasingly important role in U.S. public markets. Proxy advisory firms provide voting recommendations to shareholders on proxy...
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Certified Lies: Detecting And Defeating Government Interception Attacks Against SSL
April 16, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper introduces compelled certificate creation attack, in which government agencies may compel a certificate authority to issue false SSL certificates that can be used by intelligence...
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An Improved Method For The Quantitative Assessment Of Customer Priorities
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
A number of marketing contexts require the quantitative assessment of customer priorities like - Consider the introduction of a newer version of a product, or consider enhancing a service such as...
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The Stock Market's Pricing Of Customer Satisfaction
June 16, 2009, 12:00am PDT
A number of recent marketing studies examine the stock market's response to the release of American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) scores. The broad purpose of these studies is to investigate...
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Retail Competition And The Dynamics Of Consumer Demand For Tied Goods
December 4, 2007, 12:00am PST
This paper empirically investigates the demand for tied goods sold through competing retail channels. This paper makes three contributions. First, it identifies the horizontal externality aspect...
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Building Sustainable Organizations: The Human Factor
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Although most of the research and public pressure concerning sustainability has been focused on the effects of business and organizational activity on the physical environment, companies and their...
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Policy Perspectives On OTC Derivatives Market Infrastructure
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
In the wake of the recent financial crisis, Over-The-Counter (OTC) derivatives have been blamed for increasing systemic risk. Although OTC derivatives were not a central cause of the crisis, the...
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The Time Vs. Money Effect: Shifting Product Attitudes And Decisions Through Personal Connection
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
The results of five field and laboratory experiments reveal a "Time vs. money effect" whereby activating time (vs. money) leads to a favorable shift in product attitudes and decisions. Because...
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Increased-Liability Equity: A Proposal To Improve Capital Regulation Of Large Financial Institutions
December 31, 2009, 12:00am PST
While it is recognized that the high degree of leverage used by financial institutions creates systemic risks and other negative externalities, many argue that financial institutions must rely on...
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Information Aggregation In Dynamic Markets With Strategic Traders
March 11, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper studies information aggregation in dynamic markets with a finite number of partially informed strategic traders. It shows that for a broad class of securities, information in such...
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A Comparative Analysis Of Strategies And Strategy-Making In The U.S. And China
February 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The comparative studies indicate that change toward adoption of the electric car and clean coal within the U.S. and China, as well as transnational change toward developing clean energy and...
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Organizational Ambidexterity: IBM And Emerging Business Opportunities
May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The empirical evidence is that only a tiny fraction of organizations live to age 40. Why this should be is a puzzle, since when firms are doing well they have all the resources (financial,...
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"Green Shoots" For New Philanthropic Forms
June 5, 2009, 12:00am PDT
There are two kinds of philanthropy products: financial products and information products. They used to be bundled together, in the form of foundation staff, personal advisors, or community...
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Social Entrepreneurship Revisited
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Social entrepreneurship is one of the most alluring terms on the problem-solving landscape today, and is in use even in the new Obama administration. The President is quite familiar with the term...
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All Entrepreneurship Is Social
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Over the past decade or so, the term social entrepreneur has become a fashionable way of describing individuals and organizations that, in their attempts at large-scale change, blur the...
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Enhancing Business Education For Rural Entrepreneurs
April 4, 2009, 12:00am PDT
PDA is a micro lender that provides villagers with loans free of the stringent collateral requirements of traditional banks. It also requires loan seekers to participate in a comprehensive...
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The Case For Stakeholder Engagement
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper explores the experiences of the Davis Foundation and other grantmakers as they work more closely with important stakeholders, and the benefits that this engagement brings to...
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Social Pressures Affect Corporate Strategy And Performance
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Greater social pressure can result in better social performance. In other words, firms step up responsible behavior in response to pressure. Nike became an industry leader in promoting better...
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Multidisciplinary Process Integration And Design Optimization Of A Classroom Building
October 21, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) professionals typically achieve very few design and analysis iterations during the conceptual stage of a project. One primary cause is limitations...
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Cross-Boundary Disruptors: Powerful Inter-Industry Entrepreneurial Change Agents
October 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Based on comparative case studies of Apple Computer's strategic actions in the music and cellular telephony industries, author develops the concept of "Cross-Boundary Disruptor" as a new type of...
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Strategic Consequences of Co-Evolutionary Lock-In: Insights From A Longitudinal Process Study
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Based on longitudinal research of Intel's strategic evolution and grounded theorizing efforts, author examine the strategic consequences of the substantive concept of coevolutionary lock-in in...
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Evidence-Based Management For Entrepreneurial Environments: Faster And Better Decisions With Less Risk
March 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Entrepreneurship is risky. Most new technologies and new businesses fail. Two things seem to be true. First, evidence-based management could improve entrepreneurial decision-making, reducing...
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A Context-Oriented Synchronization Approach
July 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Synchronization gained great importance in modern applications and allows mobility in the context of information technology. Users are not limited to one computer any more, but can take their data...
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Reserve Prices In Internet Advertising Auctions: A Field Experiment
December 24, 2009, 12:00am PST
The author presents the results of a large field experiment on setting reserve prices in auctions for online advertisements, guided by the theory of optimal auction design suitably adapted to the...
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The Importance Process: Enabling Creativity In Performance-Based Design
July 23, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines a process to provide designers information about the "Importance," or ranked correlation of design decisions to explicit multi-criteria performance metrics. Historically, the...
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Nonparametric Estimation Of Marketing-Mix Effects Using A Regression Discontinuity Design
November 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
We discuss how regression discontinuity designs arise naturally in settings where firms target marketing activity at consumers, and discuss how this aspect may be exploited for econometric...
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Global Newton Method For Stochastic Games
February 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
The Global Newton Method for games in normal form and in extensive form is shown to have a natural extension to computing Markov-perfect equilibria of stochastic games. This paper features four...
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Decision-Theoretic Forward Induction
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
A player's pure strategy is called relevant for an outcome of a game in ex tensive form with perfect recall if there exists a weakly sequential equilibrium with that outcome for which the strategy...
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Computing Equilibria Of N-Player Games With Arbitrary Accuracy
February 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
From a variant of Kuhn's triangulation the authors derive a discrete version of the Global Newton Method that yields an epsilon-equilibrium of an N-player game and then sequentially reduces...
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Cutting The Strategy Diamond In High-Technology Ventures
February 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
The authors present the "Strategy diamond," which extends received strategic management theory by integrating the positional view and the resource-based view, the formulation and implementation of...
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CEO Turnover And Relative Performance Evaluation
May 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines whether CEOs are fired after bad firm performance caused by factors beyond their control. Standard economic theory predicts that corporate boards filter out exogenous industry...
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Organizational Evolution With Fuzzy Technological Boundaries: Tape Drive Producers Tn The World Market, 1951 - 1998
August 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors study how tape drive producers respond to the almost continuous emergence of new drive formats across the technology's history. The analysis characterizes the technological formats of...
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Economic Evaluation: The Effect Of Money And Economics On Attitudes About Volunteering
August 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Recent research shows that hourly payment affects decisions about time use in ways that disfavor uncompensated activities such as volunteering. This paper extends that argument by showing that the...
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A Larger Slice Or A Larger Pie? An Empirical Investigation Of Bargaining Power In The Distribution Channel
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper aims to provide insights into the determinants of channel profitability and the relative power in the channel by considering consumer demand and the interactions between manufacturers...
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Disclosing Multiple Product Attributes
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
A product often has many attributes. The seller of the product may choose whether to disclose these attributes to consumers before their purchase. How do multiple attributes of the product jointly...
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Identity-Based Encryption Is Secure in the Quantum Random Oracle Model
March 21, 2012, 12:00am PDT
The authors give the first proof of security for an identity-based encryption scheme in the quantum random oracle model. This is the first unconditional proof of security for any scheme in this...
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Location Privacy Via Private Proximity Testing
December 7, 2010, 12:00am PST
The authors study privacy-preserving tests for proximity: Alice can test if she is close to Bob without either party revealing any other information about their location. They describe several...
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The Case for Prefetching and Prevalidating TLS Server Certificates
May 7, 2011, 12:00am PDT
A key bottleneck in a full TLS handshake is the need to fetch and validate the server certificate before a secure connection can be established. The authors propose a mechanism by which a browser...
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ElasticTree: Saving Energy in Data Center Networks
March 3, 2010, 12:00am PST
Networks are a shared resource connecting critical IT infrastructure, and the general practice is to always leave them on. Yet, meaningful energy savings can result from improving a network's...
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OpenPipes: Making Distributed Hardware Systems Easier
November 30, 2010, 12:00am PST
Distributing a hardware design across multiple physical devices is difficult - splitting a design across two chips requires considerable effort to partition the design and to build the...
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Initial Thoughts on Custom Network Processing Via Waypoint Services
January 18, 2012, 12:00am PST
Network operators want additional functionality from the networks they manage. The current approach to add functionality is to deploy middleboxes. Unfortunately middle-boxes raise concerns...
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Header Space Analysis: Static Checking for Networks
February 22, 2012, 12:00am PST
Today's networks typically carry or deploy dozens of protocols and mechanisms simultaneously such as MPLS, NAT, ACLs and route redistribution. Even when individual protocols function correctly,...
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Mapping and Configuration Methods for Multi-Use-Case Networks on Chips
January 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
To provide a scalable communication infrastructure for Systems on Chips (SoCs), Networks on Chips (NoCs), a communication centric design paradigm is needed. To be cost effective, SoCs are often...
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A Methodology for Mapping Multiple Use-Cases Onto Networks on Chips
January 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
A communication-centric design approach, Networks on Chips (NoCs), has emerged as the design paradigm for designing a scalable communication infrastructure for future Systems on Chips (SoCs). As...
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Achievable Rates for the Broadcast Channel With Feedback
June 18, 2010, 12:00am PDT
A single-letter achievable rate region is proposed for the two-receiver discrete memory-less broadcast channel with feedback. It is shown through an example that the rate-region can be strictly...
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A New Achievable Rate Region for the Discrete Memoryless Multiple-Access Channel With Feedback
January 13, 2009, 12:00am PST
A single-letter achievable rate region for the two-user discrete memory-less multiple-access channel is proposed. The rate region includes the Cover-Leung region, and it is shown that the...
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Resource-Efficient Wireless Monitoring Based on Mobile Agent Migration
February 9, 2011, 12:00am PST
Wireless sensor networks are increasingly adopted in many engineering applications such as environmental and structural monitoring. Having proven to be low-cost, easy to install and accurate,...
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On Efficient Query Processing of Stream Counts on the Cell Processor
February 18, 2009, 12:00am PST
In recent years, the sketch-based technique has been presented as an effective method for counting stream items on processors with limited storage and processing capabilities, such as the network...
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Attacking Cryptographic Schemes Based on "Perturbation Polynomials" (Full Version)
February 26, 2009, 12:00am PST
The authors show attacks on several cryptographic schemes that have recently been proposed for achieving various security goals in sensor networks. Roughly speaking, these schemes all use...
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Serving the Sky: Discovering and Selecting Semantic Web Services Through Dynamic Skyline Queries
May 30, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Semantic Web service descriptions are typically multi-parameter constructs. Discovering semantically relevant services, given a desirable service description, is typically addressed by performing...
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Explaining Structured Queries in Natural Language
January 14, 2010, 12:00am PST
Many applications offer a form-based environment for naive users for accessing databases without being familiar with the database schema or a structured query language. User interactions are...
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The OpenTM Transactional Application Programming Interface
September 21, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Transactional Memory (TM) simplifies parallel programming by supporting atomic and isolated execution of user-identified tasks. To date, TM programming has required the use of libraries that make...
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Thread-Safe Dynamic Binary Translation Using Transactional Memory
December 17, 2007, 12:00am PST
Dynamic Binary Translation (DBT) is a run-time instrumentation technique commonly used to support profiling, optimization, secure execution, and bug detection tools for application binaries....
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STAMP: Stanford Transactional Applications for Multi-Processing
September 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Transactional Memory (TM) is emerging as a promising technology to simplify parallel programming. While several TM systems have been proposed in the research literature, the authors are still...
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Phoenix Rebirth: Scalable MapReduce on a Large-Scale Shared-Memory System
September 12, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Dynamic runtimes can simplify parallel programming by automatically managing concurrency and locality without further burdening the programmer. Nevertheless, implementing such runtime systems for...
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Implementing and Evaluating a Model Checker for Transactional Memory Systems
January 19, 2010, 12:00am PST
Transactional Memory (TM) is a promising technique that addresses the difficulty of parallel programming. Since TM takes responsibility for all concurrency control, TM systems are highly...
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A Large-Scale Architecture for Restricted Boltzmann Machines
March 16, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Deep Belief Nets (DBNs) are an emerging application in the machine learning domain, which use Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs) as their basic building block. Although small scale DBNs have...
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FARM: A Prototyping Environment for Tightly-Coupled, Heterogeneous Architectures
May 13, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Computer architectures are increasingly turning to parallelism and heterogeneity as solutions for boosting performance in the face of power constraints. As this trend continues, the challenges of...
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EigenBench: A Simple Exploration Tool for Orthogonal TM Characteristics
November 8, 2010, 12:00am PST
There are a significant number of Transactional Memory (TM) proposals, varying in almost all aspects of the design space. Although several transactional benchmarks have been suggested, a simple,...
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The ZCache: Decoupling Ways and Associativity
September 14, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The ever-increasing importance of main memory latency and bandwidth is pushing CMPs towards caches with higher capacity and associativity. Associativity is typically improved by increasing the...
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Dynamic Fine-Grain Scheduling of Pipeline Parallelism
August 6, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Scheduling pipeline-parallel programs, defined as a graph of stages that communicate explicitly through queues, is challenging. When the application is regular and the underlying architecture can...
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Efficient Parallel Graph Exploration on Multi-Core CPU and GPU
October 14, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Graphs are a fundamental data representation that have been used extensively in various domains. In graph-based applications, a systematic exploration of the graph such as a Breadth-First Search...
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Attacks on JavaScript Mashup Communication
May 12, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In a mashup, two principals wish to communicate without ceding complete control to each other. In this paper, the authors analyze whether existing and proposed JavaScript mashup communication...
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Parallelizing Machine Learning - Functionally
June 2, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Implementing machine learning algorithms for large data, such as the Web graph and social networks, is challenging. Even though much research has focused on making sequential algorithms more...
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Depth Estimation Using Monocular and Stereo Cues
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Depth estimation in computer vision and robotics is most commonly done via stereo vision (stereopsis), in which images from two cameras are used to triangulate and estimate distances. However,...
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Black-Box Randomized Reductions in Algorithmic Mechanism Design
August 5, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors give the first black-box reduction from arbitrary approximation algorithms to truthful approximation mechanisms for a non-trivial class of multi-parameter problems. Specifically, they...
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Designing Packet Buffers for Router Linecards
March 25, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Internet routers and Ethernet switches contain packet buffers to hold packets during times of congestion. Packet buffers are at the heart of every packet switch and router, which have a combined...
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Design and Test Strategies for Microarchitectural Post-Fabrication Tuning
August 24, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Process variations are a major hurdle for continued technology scaling. Both systematic and random variations will affect the critical delay of fabricated chips, causing a wide frequency and power...
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Empirical Performance Models for 3T1D Memories
August 24, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Process variation poses a threat to the performance and reliability of the 6T SRAM cell. Research has turned to new memory cell designs, such as the 3T1D DRAM cell, as potential replacement...
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Performance Implications of Age-Based Allocation in On-Chip-Networks
May 24, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Age-based priority is a common mechanism used to improve the fairness and Quality-of-Service (QoS) characteristics of interconnection networks. Packet age can provide remote network state...
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Evaluating Bufferless Flow Control for On-Chip Networks
March 18, 2010, 12:00am PDT
With the emergence of on-chip networks, the power consumed by router buffers has become a primary concern. Bufferless flow control addresses this issue by removing router buffers, and handles...
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Network Congestion Avoidance Through Speculative Reservation
January 6, 2012, 12:00am PST
Congestion caused by hot-spot traffic can significantly degrade the performance of a computer network. In this paper, the authors present the Speculative Reservation Protocol (SRP), a new network...
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Mining the Web for Medical Hypotheses a Proof-of-Concept System
November 5, 2010, 12:00am PDT
As the prevalence of blogs, discussion forums, and online news services continues to grow, so too does the portion of this Web content that relates to health and medicine. The authors propose that...
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Using Strategy Objectives for Network Security Analysis
December 17, 2009, 12:00am PST
The anticipation game framework is an extension of attack graphs based on game theory. It is used to anticipate and analyze intruder and administrator concurrent interactions with the network....
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Webseclab Security Education Workbench
June 7, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors have developed and tested a virtual-machine-based web security student laboratory, Webseclab, comprising a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) stack, a variety of development tools, and...
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