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Immune System Approaches to Intrusion Detection - A Review
April 8, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The use of artificial immune systems in intrusion detection is an appealing concept for two reasons. Firstly, the human immune system provides the human body with a high level of protection from...
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The Human Immune System and Network Intrusion Detection
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper reviews and assesses the analogy between the human immune system and network intrusion detection systems. The promising results from a growing number of proposed computer immune models...
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Implementing Network Virtualization for a Future Internet
May 7, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The Internet has become an essential communication medium upon which billions of people rely every day. However, necessary evolution of the Internet has been severely limited by reliability...
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A Spatial Decision Support System for Property Valuation
August 3, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Off late it is increasingly recognised that land management is a multi faceted challenge, in which social, economic and physical dimensions must be considered. In addition, the call for...
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BlueSniff: Eve Meets Alice and Bluetooth
July 31, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Much of Bluetooth's data remains confidential in practice due to the difficulty of eavesdropping it. This paper present mechanism for doing so, therefore eliminating the data confidentiality...
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Trace: Android Software and Client Server Architecture
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper will concern the development of Trace, a mobile platform designed for inputting tracking data and obtaining market prices on a given product. The client software is based on Android, an...
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Distributed Cross-Domain Change Management
December 9, 2009, 12:00am PST
Distributed systems increasingly span organizational boundaries and, with this, system and service management domains. Web services are the primary means of exposing services to clients, be it in...
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The Cloud Supply Chain: A Framework for Information, Monitoring, Accounting and Billing
June 7, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Cloud computing is changing the way in which companies deploy and operate ICT based services. This paradigm introduces several advantages compared with traditional data centers, such as a great...
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Correlation Neglect In Financial Decision-Making
February 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Good decision-making often requires people to perceive and handle a myriad of statistical correlations. Notably, optimal portfolio theory depends upon a sophisticated understanding of the...
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Why Are Optimistic Entrepreneurs Successful? An Application Of The Regulatory Focus Theory
February 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Does entrepreneurial optimism affect business performance? Using a unique data set based on repeated survey design, the authors investigate this relationship empirically. These measures of...
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The Dark Side of Security by Obscurity: And Cloning Mifare Classic Rail and Building Passes, Anywhere, Anytime
May 4, 2009, 12:00am PDT
MiFare Classic is the most popular contactless smart card with about 200 million copies in circulation worldwide. At Esorics 2008 Dutch researchers showed that the underlying cipher Crypto-1 can...
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Structuring Protocol Implementations to Protect Sensitive Data
June 3, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In a bid to limit the harm caused by ubiquitous remotely exploitable software vulnerabilities, the computer systems security community has proposed primitives to allow execution of application...
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Composition Bias And Italian Wage Rigidities Over The Business Cycle
September 30, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The author estimates the cyclicality of Italian real wages over the period 1985-2003 controlling for the so-called "Composition bias". Aggregate real wage statistics, commonly used to measure real...
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Epcast: Controlled Dissemination in Human-Based Wireless Networks by Means of Epidemic Spreading Models
November 18, 2007, 12:00am PST
Epidemics-inspired techniques have received huge attention in recent years from the distributed systems and networking communities. These algorithms and protocols rely on probabilistic message...
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Immune System Approaches to Intrusion Detection
August 7, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The use of artificial immune systems in intrusion detection is an appealing concept for two reasons. Firstly, the human immune system provides the human body with a high level of protection from...
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Evaluating and Optimising Models of Network Growth
April 5, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents a statistically sound method for measuring the accuracy with which a probabilistic model reflects the growth of a network, and a method for optimising parameters in such a...
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Cryptanalysis of Secure Message Transmission Protocols With Feedback
December 21, 2009, 12:00am PST
In the context of secure point-to-point message transmission in networks with minimal connectivity, previous studies showed that feedbacks from the receiver to the sender can be used to reduce the...
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Quantifying the Availability of TV White Spaces for Cognitive Radio Operation in the UK
June 18, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Cognitive Radio (CR) technology is a key enabler for the Opportunistic Spectrum Access (OSA) model, a potentially revolutionary new paradigm for dynamic sharing of licenced spectrum with...
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Worm Epidemics in Wireless Adhoc Networks
July 16, 2007, 12:00am PDT
A dramatic increase in the number of computing devices with wireless communication capability has resulted in the emergence of a new class of computer worms which specifically target such devices....
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Scalable Authenticated Tree Based Group Key Exchange for Ad-Hoc Groups
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Task-specific groups are often formed in an ad-hoc manner within big structures, like companies. Take the following typical scenario: A high rank manager decides that a task force group for some...
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Two Algorithms for Network Size Estimation for Master/Slave Ad Hoc Networks
October 20, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper proposes an adaptation of two network size estimation methods: random tour and gossip-based aggregation to suit master/slave mobile ad hoc networks. The authors show that it is feasible...
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Criticisms of Modelling Packet Traffic Using Long-Range Dependence
October 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper criticises the notion that long-range dependence is an important contributor to the queuing behaviour of real Internet traffic. The idea is questioned in two different ways. Firstly, a...
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A Critical Look at Power Law Modeling of the Internet
October 12, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper takes a critical look at the usefulness of power law models of the Internet. The twin focuses of the paper are Internet traffic and topology generation. The aim of the paper is twofold....
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Currency Forecasting Using Multiple Kernel Learning With Financially Motivated Features
November 28, 2010, 12:00am PST
Multiple Kernel Learning (MKL) is used to replicate the signal combination process that trading rules embody when they aggregate multiple sources of financial information when predicting an...
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Hardware Supported Synchronization Primitives for Clusters
May 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Parallel architectures with shared memory are well suited to many applications, provided that efficient shared memory access and process synchronization mechanisms are available. When the parallel...
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Differential Cryptanalysis of GOST
July 2, 2011, 12:00am PDT
GOST 28147-89 is a well-known block cipher and the official encryption standard of the Russian Federation. A 256-bit block cipher considered as an alternative for AES-256 and triple DES, having an...
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The Compliance Testing of Software Tools With Respect to the UML Standards Specification - The ArgoUML Case Study
May 26, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In ICSE'08 the authors demonstrated the Java UML Lightweight Enumerator (JULE) tool, which supports compliance test generation from modeling standards specifications. When employed in the authors'...
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Design, Implementation and Evaluation of Congestion Control for Multipath TCP
March 2, 2011, 12:00am PST
Multipath TCP, as proposed by the IETF working group mptcp, allows a single data stream to be split across multiple paths. This has obvious benefits for reliability, and it can also lead to more...
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Non-Degrading Erasure-Tolerant Information Authentication With an Application to Multicast Stream Authentication Over Lossy Channels
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The concept of erasure-tolerant information authentication was recently introduced to study an unconditionally secure setting where it is allowed to lose a limited number of message letters during...
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Globalization, Brain Drain And Development
February 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper reviews four decades of economics research on the brain drain, with a focus on recent contributions and on development issues. The authors first assess the magnitude, intensity and...
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Tradable Immigration Quotas
June 7, 2011, 12:00am PDT
International migration is maybe the single most effective way to alleviate poverty at a global level. When a given host country allows more immigrants in, this creates costs and benefits for that...
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Are Public Sector CEOs Different? Leadership Wages And Performance In Schools
February 28, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper uses a unique data set to investigate the link between the pay and performance of school principals. It is frequently argued that public sector CEOs are paid like bureaucrats with...
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Flow Processing and the Rise of Commodity Network Hardware
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The Internet has seen a proliferation of specialized middle-box devices that carry out crucial network functionality such as load balancing, packet inspection and intrusion detection. Recent...
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Modeling Internet Topology Dynamics
March 10, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Despite the large number of papers on network topology modeling and inference, there still exists ambiguity about the real nature of the Internet AS and router level topology. While recent...
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Persistent Content-Based Information Dissemination in Hybrid Vehicular Networks
January 7, 2009, 12:00am PST
Content-based information dissemination has a potential number of applications in vehicular networking, including advertising, traffic and parking notifications and emergency announcements. In...
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Efficient Node Discovery in Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks
April 3, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Energy is one of the most crucial aspects in real deployments of mobile sensor networks. As a result of scarce resources, the duration of most real deployments can be limited to just several days,...
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Mixtures Of t-distributions For Finance And Forecasting
October 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The authors explore convenient analytic properties of distributions constructed as mixtures of scaled and shifted t-distributions. A feature that makes this family particularly desirable for...
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Towards Secure Cloud Bursting, Brokerage and Aggregation
September 27, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The cloud based delivery model for IT resources is revolutionizing the IT industry. Despite the marketing hype around "The cloud", the paradigm itself is in a critical transition state from the...
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Towards In-Network Clouds in Future Internet
May 5, 2011, 12:00am PDT
One of the key aspects fundamentally missing from the current Internet infrastructure is an advanced service networking platform and facilities, which take advantage of flexible sharing of...
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Software Architecture Definition for On-Demand Cloud Provisioning
September 12, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Cloud computing is a promising paradigm for the provisioning of IT services. Cloud computing infrastructures, such as those offered by the RESERVOIR project, aim to facilitate the deployment,...
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Monitoring, Aggregation and Filtering for Efficient Management of Virtual Networks
July 28, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Virtual Networks are characterised as highly dynamic network environments, where topologies and nodes adapt rapidly to changes in user and service demands, user location and context changes, or...
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Cache "Less for More" in Information-Centric Networks
February 22, 2012, 12:00am PST
Ubiquitous in-network caching is one of the key aspects of Information-Centric Networking (ICN) which has recently received widespread research interest. In one of the key relevant proposals known...
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Probabilistic In-Network Caching for Information-Centric Networks
March 31, 2012, 12:00am PDT
In-network caching necessitates the transformation of centralised operations of traditional, overlay caching techniques to a decentralised and uncoordinated environment. Given that caching...
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A Component-Based Architecture for Cognitive Radio Resource Management
May 26, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Cognitive Radio Networks are envisioned to solve the problem of spectral scarcity in wireless networks; through providing highly configurable radios and protocol stacks to support the application...
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On the End-to-End Delay Performance of Spatially Correlated Wireless Line Networks
September 12, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The analytical end-to-end (e2e) performance of a wireless multihop network is largely unknown, because of the interconnections between several factors involved. Customarily, the nodes are often...
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Modelling and Evaluation of CCN-Caching Trees
February 15, 2011, 12:00am PST
Networking Named Content (NNC) was recently proposed as a new networking paradigm to realise Content Centric Networks (CCNs). The new paradigm changes much about the current Internet, from...
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Network Topologies: Inference, Modeling, and Generation
June 18, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Accurate measurement, inference and modeling techniques are fundamental to Internet topology research. Spatial analysis of the Internet is needed to develop network planning, optimal routing...
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An Improved Differential Attack on Full GOST
March 15, 2012, 12:00am PDT
GOST 28147-89 is a well-known block cipher and the official encryption standard of the Russian Federation. A 256-bit block cipher considered as an alternative for AES-256 and triple DES, having an...
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Algebraic Complexity Reduction and Cryptanalysis of GOST
November 21, 2011, 12:00am PST
GOST 28147-89 is a well-known block cipher and the official encryption standard of the Russian Federation. Its large key size of 256 bits at a particularly low implementation cost make GOST a...
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Experiences in Using MUWS for Scalable Distributed Monitoring
January 15, 2009, 12:00am PST
Efficient Web Services (WS) based network monitoring of managed devices is a difficult task due to the relatively big overhead WS impose. In the past, the authors proposed mechanisms to perform...
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Balancing by PREFLEX: Congestion Aware Traffic Engineering
December 12, 2010, 12:00am PST
There has long been a need for a robust and reliable system which distributes traffic across multiple paths. In particular such a system must rarely reorder packets, must not require per-flow...
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Open Unification for Program Query Languages
August 10, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Logic-based programming languages are increasingly applied as program query languages which allow developers to reason about the structure and behaviour of programs. To achieve this, the queried...
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Squeeziness: An Information Theoretic Measure for Avoiding Fault Masking
January 23, 2012, 12:00am PST
Fault masking can reduce the effectiveness of a test suite. The authors propose an information theoretic measure, Squeeziness, as the theoretical basis for avoiding fault masking. They begin by...
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An Implementation of a First-Person Game on a Hybrid Network
December 2, 2008, 12:00am PST
The majority of current networked virtual environments and networked games use a client-server model of networking. This makes synchronization of the environment simple, but it adds additional...
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FLINT: Fault Localisation Using Information Theory
March 14, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Test case prioritisation techniques aim to maximise the chance of fault detection as early in testing as possible. This is most commonly achieved by prioritising the tests according to a surrogate...
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Content Source Selection in Bluetooth Networks
June 5, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Large scale market penetration of electronic devices equipped with Bluetooth technology now gives the ability to share content (such as music or video clips) between members of the public in a...
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A Survey of Cognitive Radio Access to TV White Spaces
April 6, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Cognitive radio is being intensively researched as the enabling technology for license-exempt access to the so-called TV White Spaces (TVWS), large portions of spectrum in the UHF/VHF bands which...
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Coalition-Based Peering for Flexible Connectivity
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Mobile devices available today provide users the ability to communicate using a number of different wireless network interfaces. However, these devices do not yet fully exploit the potential for...
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Fast-Converging Distance Vector Routing for Wireless Mesh Networks
March 23, 2008, 12:00am PDT
A major concern about distance-vector routing protocols for wireless mesh networks is its slow convergence in the presence of link changes, which can potentially degrade network stability. This...
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An Efficient Secure Shared Storage Service With Fault and Investigative Disruption Tolerance
September 25, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors focus on solutions to an emerging threat to cloud-based services - namely that of data seizures within a shared multiple customer architecture. They focus on the problem...
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Monitoring Virtual Networks With Lattice
February 21, 2010, 12:00am PST
The use of the Lattice monitoring framework as a fundamental part of an overlay management system for virtual networks is presented. Lattice has been specially designed for monitoring resources...
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RESERVOIR - When One Cloud Is Not Enough
January 31, 2011, 12:00am PST
As cloud computing becomes more predominant, the problem of scalability has become critical for cloud computing providers. The cloud paradigm is attractive because it offers a dramatic reduction...
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Elastic Service Management in Computational Clouds
April 22, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Cloud computing, is rapidly changing the landscape of traditional IT service provisioning. It presents service providers with the potential to significantly reduce initial capital investment into...
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Software Architecture Definition for On-Demand Cloud Provisioning
September 12, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Cloud computing is a promising paradigm for the provisioning of IT services. Cloud computing infrastructures, such as those offered by the RESERVOIR project, aim to facilitate the deployment,...
Provided by University College London
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White Papers
Towards In-Network Clouds in Future Internet
May 5, 2011, 12:00am PDT
One of the key aspects fundamentally missing from the current Internet infrastructure is an advanced service networking platform and facilities, which take advantage of flexible sharing of...
Provided by University College London
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White Papers
Towards Secure Cloud Bursting, Brokerage and Aggregation
September 27, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The cloud based delivery model for IT resources is revolutionizing the IT industry. Despite the marketing hype around "The cloud", the paradigm itself is in a critical transition state from the...
Provided by University College London
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White Papers
Mixtures Of t-distributions For Finance And Forecasting
October 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The authors explore convenient analytic properties of distributions constructed as mixtures of scaled and shifted t-distributions. A feature that makes this family particularly desirable for...
Provided by University College London
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White Papers
Efficient Node Discovery in Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks
April 3, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Energy is one of the most crucial aspects in real deployments of mobile sensor networks. As a result of scarce resources, the duration of most real deployments can be limited to just several days,...
Provided by University College London
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White Papers
Persistent Content-Based Information Dissemination in Hybrid Vehicular Networks
January 7, 2009, 12:00am PST
Content-based information dissemination has a potential number of applications in vehicular networking, including advertising, traffic and parking notifications and emergency announcements. In...
Provided by University College London
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White Papers
Modeling Internet Topology Dynamics
March 10, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Despite the large number of papers on network topology modeling and inference, there still exists ambiguity about the real nature of the Internet AS and router level topology. While recent...
Provided by University College London
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White Papers
Flow Processing and the Rise of Commodity Network Hardware
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The Internet has seen a proliferation of specialized middle-box devices that carry out crucial network functionality such as load balancing, packet inspection and intrusion detection. Recent...
Provided by University College London
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White Papers
Are Public Sector CEOs Different? Leadership Wages And Performance In Schools
February 28, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper uses a unique data set to investigate the link between the pay and performance of school principals. It is frequently argued that public sector CEOs are paid like bureaucrats with...
Provided by University College London
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White Papers
Tradable Immigration Quotas
June 7, 2011, 12:00am PDT
International migration is maybe the single most effective way to alleviate poverty at a global level. When a given host country allows more immigrants in, this creates costs and benefits for that...
Provided by University College London
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White Papers
Globalization, Brain Drain And Development
February 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper reviews four decades of economics research on the brain drain, with a focus on recent contributions and on development issues. The authors first assess the magnitude, intensity and...
Provided by University College London
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White Papers
Non-Degrading Erasure-Tolerant Information Authentication With an Application to Multicast Stream Authentication Over Lossy Channels
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The concept of erasure-tolerant information authentication was recently introduced to study an unconditionally secure setting where it is allowed to lose a limited number of message letters during...
Provided by University College London
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White Papers
Design, Implementation and Evaluation of Congestion Control for Multipath TCP
March 2, 2011, 12:00am PST
Multipath TCP, as proposed by the IETF working group mptcp, allows a single data stream to be split across multiple paths. This has obvious benefits for reliability, and it can also lead to more...
Provided by University College London
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White Papers
The Compliance Testing of Software Tools With Respect to the UML Standards Specification - The ArgoUML Case Study
May 26, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In ICSE'08 the authors demonstrated the Java UML Lightweight Enumerator (JULE) tool, which supports compliance test generation from modeling standards specifications. When employed in the authors'...
Provided by University College London
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White Papers
Differential Cryptanalysis of GOST
July 2, 2011, 12:00am PDT
GOST 28147-89 is a well-known block cipher and the official encryption standard of the Russian Federation. A 256-bit block cipher considered as an alternative for AES-256 and triple DES, having an...
Provided by University College London
-
White Papers
Hardware Supported Synchronization Primitives for Clusters
May 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Parallel architectures with shared memory are well suited to many applications, provided that efficient shared memory access and process synchronization mechanisms are available. When the parallel...
Provided by University College London
-
White Papers
Currency Forecasting Using Multiple Kernel Learning With Financially Motivated Features
November 28, 2010, 12:00am PST
Multiple Kernel Learning (MKL) is used to replicate the signal combination process that trading rules embody when they aggregate multiple sources of financial information when predicting an...
Provided by University College London
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