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Teaching Data Mining: The University of Alabama and SAS
December 4, 2008, 12:00am PST
The University of Alabama (UA) and SAS developed a partnership whereby students who complete a sequence of four graduate-level courses can receive a joint Data Mining Certificate from UA and SAS....
Provided by University of Alabama
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Model-Driven Automated Error Recovery in Cloud Computing
April 28, 2009, 12:00am PDT
With the increasing complexity of software and systems, domain analysis and modeling are becoming more important for software development and system applications. Applying domain-specific modeling...
Provided by University of Alabama at Birmingham
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A Common Meta-Model for Data Analysis Based on DSM
August 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Problems are often created by advanced support systems because they are not only highly expensive but also difficult to implement. In such a case, small and medium scale businesses are often...
Provided by University of Alabama at Birmingham
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Runtime Hardware Reconfiguration in Wireless Sensor Networks
January 17, 2008, 12:00am PST
Recent advances in sensors, low-power system-on-a-chip devices, and wireless communications, have prompted a proliferation of wireless sensor networks. As these networks require advanced...
Provided by University of Alabama in Huntsville
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How Strategic Planning Keeps You Sane When Delivering Distance Programs
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper details the advantages of creating a strategic plan in the development and delivery of distance programs at the authors' own institution. The steps involved in the planning process and...
Provided by University of Alabama
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Middleware Design in Wireless Sensor Networks
December 15, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper will introduce the middleware architecture of a WSN. The discussions are based on the summarization of [Miaomiao08]. If the readers want to understand more details, please refer to...
Provided by University of Alabama
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Android OS: A Robust, Free, Open-Source Operating System for Mobile Devices
April 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Mobile devices have seen an extensive amount of development in recent years, but one question is still looming and nobody seems to have the answer: what is 'standard' for the mobile platform? Many...
Provided by University of Alabama
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Privacy-Preserving Secure Relative Localization in Vehicular Networks
March 25, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Relative location information helps build vehicle topology maps. Such maps provide location information of nearby vehicles to drivers. In building a vehicle topology, one must consider various...
Provided by University of Alabama
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Poster Abstract: Local Cloud Deployment in a Limited IP Setting
October 26, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper is intended to be an introduction to the current research on cloud and distributed computing. The focus of the research began with the deployment of a cloud computing system. Realizing...
Provided by University of Alabama
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White Papers
New Artificial Intelligence Systems for Improving Student Math Skills: Assessment and Learning in Knowledge Spaces (ALEKS)
June 29, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Artificial intelligence technology for advancing mathematical understanding is achieving new gains through a computer software called Assessment and Learning in Knowledge Spaces (ALEKS). ALEKS, an...
Provided by University of Alabama
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White Papers
I-Interaction: An Intelligent In-Vehicle User Interaction Model
July 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The automobile is always a point of interest where new technology has been deployed. Because of this interest, human-vehicle interaction has been an appealing area for much research in recent...
Provided by University of Alabama
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A Survey of Power Efficient Technologies for Wireless Body Area Networks
July 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) of intelligent sensors emerged as the most promising architecture for ambulatory health monitoring. Integrated in an m-Health system they provide means for...
Provided by University of Alabama
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Evolving Sensor Web Protocols for Sensor Data Management
April 28, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Standard interfaces for data and information access facilitate data management and usability by minimizing the effort required to acquire, catalog and integrate data from a variety of sources. The...
Provided by University of Alabama
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Intelligent Assimilation of Satellite Data Into a Forecast Model Using Sensor Web Processes and Protocols
May 22, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The goal of the Sensor Management for Applied Research Technologies (SMART) On-Demand Modeling project is to develop and demonstrate the readiness of the Open Geospatial Consortium Sensor Web...
Provided by University of Alabama
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Investigating the Use of Model-Driven Generative Techniques for Middleware Performance Analysis
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The increasing demand for faster availability of new, feature-rich and high performance network-centric services imposes the need for these services to be rapidly developed via composition,...
Provided by University of Alabama
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An Online Energy-Efficient Routing Protocol With Traffic Load Prospects in Wireless Sensor Networks
May 15, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In wireless sensor networks, many routing algorithms are designed to implement energy-efficient mechanisms. Among those, some focus on maximising an important performance index called network...
Provided by University of Alabama
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White Papers
Selective Message Forwarding in Delay Tolerant Networks
September 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
It is challenging to deliver messages in a network where no instant end-to-end path exists, so called Delay-Tolerant Network (DTN). Node encounters are used for message forwarding. In this paper,...
Provided by University of Alabama
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White Papers
Performance Limits of Fair-Access in Sensor Networks With Linear and Selected Grid Topologies
November 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper investigates fundamental performance limits of Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols for multi-hop sensor networks. A unique aspect of this study is the modeling of a fair-access...
Provided by University of Alabama
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White Papers
Does The Gross Spread Split Compensate Lead Underwriters For Analyst Coverage?
September 14, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Since underpricing and gross spread are the two main revenue sources for investment banks in public offerings, this paper examines the IPO syndicate data from January 1997 to June 2002 to...
Provided by University of Alabama
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Do Investors Value SEO Lockup Agreements?
September 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The literature has documented that a lockup agreement at the time of equity issuance plays two major roles: a signal of good firm quality and a commitment device. Both of these roles suggest that...
Provided by University of Alabama
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White Papers
Insiders' Informative Trading: Evidence From Multi-Company Directors
June 12, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines the "Relative" information contained in insider director transactions. The authors find that insider transactions of multi-company directors reflect superior information about...
Provided by University of Alabama
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White Papers
Why Do Analysts Issue Long-Term Earnings Growth Forecasts? An Empirical Analysis
September 11, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The authors examine analysts' motives to issue Long-Term earning Growth (LTG) forecasts. They find that analysts are more likely to issue LTG forecasts when their incentive to please managers is...
Provided by University of Alabama
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A Trooper Selection Strategy on a Milepost Network
May 6, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors address the problem of selecting troopers to intercept vehicles that are flagged as suspect by a variety of sensors. They model the Alabama State route network using a graph in which...
Provided by University of Alabama
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ORUIES: Object Oriented User Interface for Embedded Systems
May 12, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper introduces the Object Oriented User Interface for Embedded Systems (ORUIES), which is based on the Architecture Description Language concept, specifically the Simulation Architecture...
Provided by University of Alabama
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Combined Code Understanding and Comment Understanding
May 16, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Program comprehension necessitates the process of extracting properties from a program in order to achieve a better discernment of the software system under study. In this paper, the authors...
Provided by University of Alabama in Huntsville
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High-Speed Parallel Architecture of the Whirlpool Hash Function
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Whirlpool hash function should be capable of processing the input data streams at high speeds. The authors propose a fully synchronous parallel pipelined architecture with ten stages of pipelining...
Provided by University of Alabama
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Security Attacks and Solutions in Clouds
August 26, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Cloud computing offers great potential to improve productivity and reduce costs, but at the same time it possesses many new security risks. In this paper, the authors identify the possible...
Provided by University of Alabama
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An Approach Against a Computer Worm Attack
August 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Building a realistic model for a network defense system against a worm attack is vital to better understand the effects of a worm attack on network assets and functionality. Traditional epidemic...
Provided by University of Alabama in Huntsville
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White Papers
Keep Your Feet on the Ground When Moving Software Into the Cloud
April 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Cloud computing and Web 2.0 are the latest buzzwords in the IT world. Cloud computing is on every software supplier's website from Amazon to Yahoo!. Open any newspaper, business journal or...
Provided by University of Alabama
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Whitepapers
The Enemy within: The Emerging Threats to Healthcare from Malicious Mobile Devices
October 8, 2012, 12:00am PDT
With the proliferation of wireless networks, mobile devices and medical devices are increasingly being equipped with wireless interfaces, such as Bluetooth and WiFi to allow easy access to and...
Provided by University of Alabama
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SAT: Building New Trust Architecture for Vehicular Networks
April 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The new trust concept and architecture for VNET is introduced in this paper. The "Situation-Aware Trust (SAT)" uses descriptive attributes to efficiently perform security policy control, builds in...
Provided by University of Alabama
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Whitepapers
Towards Building Proofs of Past Data Possession in Cloud Forensics
November 15, 2012, 12:00am PST
Cloud computing has emerged as a popular computing paradigm in recent years. However, today's cloud computing architectures often lack support for computer forensic investigations. A key task of...
Provided by University of Alabama
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Playful Security: A Computer Game for Secure Wireless Device Pairing
July 6, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The secure "Pairing" of wireless devices based on out-of-band communication is an established research direction. Unfortunately, this approach is prone to human errors that lead to...
Provided by University of Alabama
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Multiple Radio Channel Assignment Utilizing Partially Overlapped Channels
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Existing channel assignment algorithms designed for Multi-Radio Multi-Channel Wireless Mesh Networks (MRMC-WMN) mainly deal with orthogonal or non-overlapped channels. But in reality, the limited...
Provided by University of Alabama
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Power Aware Load Balancing for Cloud Computing
October 21, 2011, 12:00am PDT
With the increased use of local cloud computing architectures, organizations are becoming aware of wasted power consumed by unutilized resources. In this paper, the authors present a load...
Provided by University of Alabama
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Channel Assignment Algorithms for MRMC Wireless Mesh Networks
October 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The wireless mesh networks are considered as one of the vital elements in today's converged networks, providing high bandwidth and connectivity over large geographical areas. Mesh routers equipped...
Provided by University of Alabama
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TCP Traffic Control Evaluation and Reduction over Wireless Networks Using Parallel Sequential Decoding Mechanism
October 9, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The assumption of TCP-based protocols that packet error (lost or damaged) is due to network congestion is not true for wireless networks. For wireless networks, it is important to reduce the...
Provided by University of Alabama
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Selfless Inheritance
October 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Formal treatments of inheritance are rather scarce and those that do exist are often more suited for analysis of existing systems than as guides to language designers. One problem that adds...
Provided by University of Alabama
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Arbitrary Dimension Reed-Solomon Coding and Decoding for Extended RAID on GPUs
November 16, 2008, 12:00am PST
Reed-Solomon coding is a method of generating arbitrary amounts of checksum information from original data via matrix-vector multiplication in finite fields. Previous work has shown that CPUs are...
Provided by University of Alabama
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Service-Oriented Architecture, Web Services, XML and Higher Education
August 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web Services are now making a tremendous impact on the computing world. Many large enterprises, including universities, are using SOA and Web Services to...
Provided by University of Alabama
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Whitepapers
Towards Building Proofs of Past Data Possession in Cloud Forensics
November 15, 2012, 12:00am PST
Cloud computing has emerged as a popular computing paradigm in recent years. However, today's cloud computing architectures often lack support for computer forensic investigations. A key task of...
Provided by University of Alabama
-
Whitepapers
The Enemy within: The Emerging Threats to Healthcare from Malicious Mobile Devices
October 8, 2012, 12:00am PDT
With the proliferation of wireless networks, mobile devices and medical devices are increasingly being equipped with wireless interfaces, such as Bluetooth and WiFi to allow easy access to and...
Provided by University of Alabama
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A 1GHz Direct Digital Frequency Synthesizer Based on the Quasi-Linear Interpolation Method
June 15, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The paper presents a novel architecture for a Direct Digital Frequency Synthesizer (DDFS) based on the Quasi-Linear InterPolation (QLIP) method. The four-segment QLIP is utilized to realize a DDFS...
Provided by University of Alabama
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An Implementation of Security Extensions for Data Integrity and Confidentiality in Soft-Core Processors
May 5, 2009, 12:00am PDT
An increasing number of embedded system solutions in space, military, and consumer electronics applications rely on processor cores inside reconfigurable logic devices. Ensuring data integrity and...
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Towards a Probabilistic Complexity-theoretic Modeling of Biological Cyanide Poisoning as Service Attack in Self-organizing Networks
October 6, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors propose to use probabilistic complexity theory, which is also known as the foundation of modern cryptography, to study very complex systems in the form of large-scale...
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A Non-Invasive Approach to Assertive and Autonomous Dynamic Component Composition in Service-Oriented Paradigm
September 17, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Component-based software composition offers a development paradigm with reduced time-to-market and cost while achieving enhanced productivity, quality and maintainability. Existent work on the...
Provided by University of Alabama
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White Papers
Arbitrary Dimension Reed-Solomon Coding and Decoding for Extended RAID on GPUs
November 16, 2008, 12:00am PST
Reed-Solomon coding is a method of generating arbitrary amounts of checksum information from original data via matrix-vector multiplication in finite fields. Previous work has shown that CPUs are...
Provided by University of Alabama
-
White Papers
Selfless Inheritance
October 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Formal treatments of inheritance are rather scarce and those that do exist are often more suited for analysis of existing systems than as guides to language designers. One problem that adds...
Provided by University of Alabama
-
White Papers
TCP Traffic Control Evaluation and Reduction over Wireless Networks Using Parallel Sequential Decoding Mechanism
October 9, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The assumption of TCP-based protocols that packet error (lost or damaged) is due to network congestion is not true for wireless networks. For wireless networks, it is important to reduce the...
Provided by University of Alabama
-
White Papers
Channel Assignment Algorithms for MRMC Wireless Mesh Networks
October 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The wireless mesh networks are considered as one of the vital elements in today's converged networks, providing high bandwidth and connectivity over large geographical areas. Mesh routers equipped...
Provided by University of Alabama
-
White Papers
Power Aware Load Balancing for Cloud Computing
October 21, 2011, 12:00am PDT
With the increased use of local cloud computing architectures, organizations are becoming aware of wasted power consumed by unutilized resources. In this paper, the authors present a load...
Provided by University of Alabama
-
White Papers
Multiple Radio Channel Assignment Utilizing Partially Overlapped Channels
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Existing channel assignment algorithms designed for Multi-Radio Multi-Channel Wireless Mesh Networks (MRMC-WMN) mainly deal with orthogonal or non-overlapped channels. But in reality, the limited...
Provided by University of Alabama
-
White Papers
Playful Security: A Computer Game for Secure Wireless Device Pairing
July 6, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The secure "Pairing" of wireless devices based on out-of-band communication is an established research direction. Unfortunately, this approach is prone to human errors that lead to...
Provided by University of Alabama
-
White Papers
SAT: Building New Trust Architecture for Vehicular Networks
April 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The new trust concept and architecture for VNET is introduced in this paper. The "Situation-Aware Trust (SAT)" uses descriptive attributes to efficiently perform security policy control, builds in...
Provided by University of Alabama
-
White Papers
Keep Your Feet on the Ground When Moving Software Into the Cloud
April 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Cloud computing and Web 2.0 are the latest buzzwords in the IT world. Cloud computing is on every software supplier's website from Amazon to Yahoo!. Open any newspaper, business journal or...
Provided by University of Alabama
-
White Papers
An Approach Against a Computer Worm Attack
August 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Building a realistic model for a network defense system against a worm attack is vital to better understand the effects of a worm attack on network assets and functionality. Traditional epidemic...
Provided by University of Alabama in Huntsville
-
White Papers
Security Attacks and Solutions in Clouds
August 26, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Cloud computing offers great potential to improve productivity and reduce costs, but at the same time it possesses many new security risks. In this paper, the authors identify the possible...
Provided by University of Alabama
-
White Papers
High-Speed Parallel Architecture of the Whirlpool Hash Function
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Whirlpool hash function should be capable of processing the input data streams at high speeds. The authors propose a fully synchronous parallel pipelined architecture with ten stages of pipelining...
Provided by University of Alabama
-
White Papers
Combined Code Understanding and Comment Understanding
May 16, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Program comprehension necessitates the process of extracting properties from a program in order to achieve a better discernment of the software system under study. In this paper, the authors...
Provided by University of Alabama in Huntsville
-
White Papers
ORUIES: Object Oriented User Interface for Embedded Systems
May 12, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper introduces the Object Oriented User Interface for Embedded Systems (ORUIES), which is based on the Architecture Description Language concept, specifically the Simulation Architecture...
Provided by University of Alabama
-
White Papers
A Trooper Selection Strategy on a Milepost Network
May 6, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors address the problem of selecting troopers to intercept vehicles that are flagged as suspect by a variety of sensors. They model the Alabama State route network using a graph in which...
Provided by University of Alabama
-
White Papers
Why Do Analysts Issue Long-Term Earnings Growth Forecasts? An Empirical Analysis
September 11, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The authors examine analysts' motives to issue Long-Term earning Growth (LTG) forecasts. They find that analysts are more likely to issue LTG forecasts when their incentive to please managers is...
Provided by University of Alabama
-
White Papers
Insiders' Informative Trading: Evidence From Multi-Company Directors
June 12, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines the "Relative" information contained in insider director transactions. The authors find that insider transactions of multi-company directors reflect superior information about...
Provided by University of Alabama
-
White Papers
Do Investors Value SEO Lockup Agreements?
September 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The literature has documented that a lockup agreement at the time of equity issuance plays two major roles: a signal of good firm quality and a commitment device. Both of these roles suggest that...
Provided by University of Alabama
-
White Papers
Does The Gross Spread Split Compensate Lead Underwriters For Analyst Coverage?
September 14, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Since underpricing and gross spread are the two main revenue sources for investment banks in public offerings, this paper examines the IPO syndicate data from January 1997 to June 2002 to...
Provided by University of Alabama
-
White Papers
Performance Limits of Fair-Access in Sensor Networks With Linear and Selected Grid Topologies
November 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper investigates fundamental performance limits of Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols for multi-hop sensor networks. A unique aspect of this study is the modeling of a fair-access...
Provided by University of Alabama
-
White Papers
Selective Message Forwarding in Delay Tolerant Networks
September 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
It is challenging to deliver messages in a network where no instant end-to-end path exists, so called Delay-Tolerant Network (DTN). Node encounters are used for message forwarding. In this paper,...
Provided by University of Alabama
-
White Papers
An Online Energy-Efficient Routing Protocol With Traffic Load Prospects in Wireless Sensor Networks
May 15, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In wireless sensor networks, many routing algorithms are designed to implement energy-efficient mechanisms. Among those, some focus on maximising an important performance index called network...
Provided by University of Alabama
-
White Papers
Investigating the Use of Model-Driven Generative Techniques for Middleware Performance Analysis
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The increasing demand for faster availability of new, feature-rich and high performance network-centric services imposes the need for these services to be rapidly developed via composition,...
Provided by University of Alabama
-
White Papers
Intelligent Assimilation of Satellite Data Into a Forecast Model Using Sensor Web Processes and Protocols
May 22, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The goal of the Sensor Management for Applied Research Technologies (SMART) On-Demand Modeling project is to develop and demonstrate the readiness of the Open Geospatial Consortium Sensor Web...
Provided by University of Alabama
-
White Papers
Evolving Sensor Web Protocols for Sensor Data Management
April 28, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Standard interfaces for data and information access facilitate data management and usability by minimizing the effort required to acquire, catalog and integrate data from a variety of sources. The...
Provided by University of Alabama
-
White Papers
A Survey of Power Efficient Technologies for Wireless Body Area Networks
July 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) of intelligent sensors emerged as the most promising architecture for ambulatory health monitoring. Integrated in an m-Health system they provide means for...
Provided by University of Alabama
-
White Papers
I-Interaction: An Intelligent In-Vehicle User Interaction Model
July 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The automobile is always a point of interest where new technology has been deployed. Because of this interest, human-vehicle interaction has been an appealing area for much research in recent...
Provided by University of Alabama
-
White Papers
New Artificial Intelligence Systems for Improving Student Math Skills: Assessment and Learning in Knowledge Spaces (ALEKS)
June 29, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Artificial intelligence technology for advancing mathematical understanding is achieving new gains through a computer software called Assessment and Learning in Knowledge Spaces (ALEKS). ALEKS, an...
Provided by University of Alabama
-
White Papers
Poster Abstract: Local Cloud Deployment in a Limited IP Setting
October 26, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper is intended to be an introduction to the current research on cloud and distributed computing. The focus of the research began with the deployment of a cloud computing system. Realizing...
Provided by University of Alabama
-
White Papers
Privacy-Preserving Secure Relative Localization in Vehicular Networks
March 25, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Relative location information helps build vehicle topology maps. Such maps provide location information of nearby vehicles to drivers. In building a vehicle topology, one must consider various...
Provided by University of Alabama
-
White Papers
Android OS: A Robust, Free, Open-Source Operating System for Mobile Devices
April 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Mobile devices have seen an extensive amount of development in recent years, but one question is still looming and nobody seems to have the answer: what is 'standard' for the mobile platform? Many...
Provided by University of Alabama
-
White Papers
Middleware Design in Wireless Sensor Networks
December 15, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper will introduce the middleware architecture of a WSN. The discussions are based on the summarization of [Miaomiao08]. If the readers want to understand more details, please refer to...
Provided by University of Alabama
-
White Papers
How Strategic Planning Keeps You Sane When Delivering Distance Programs
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper details the advantages of creating a strategic plan in the development and delivery of distance programs at the authors' own institution. The steps involved in the planning process and...
Provided by University of Alabama
-
White Papers
Runtime Hardware Reconfiguration in Wireless Sensor Networks
January 17, 2008, 12:00am PST
Recent advances in sensors, low-power system-on-a-chip devices, and wireless communications, have prompted a proliferation of wireless sensor networks. As these networks require advanced...
Provided by University of Alabama in Huntsville
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