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Resource-Efficient Dynamic Channel Reservations for Real-Time Streams in Wireless Multihop Networks
June 22, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Many wireless ad-hoc networks, such as sensor networks and networked embedded control systems, must support data dissemination with strict end-to-end latency constraints. In addition, such...
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A Decentralized Approach to Minimum-Energy Broadcasting in Static Ad Hoc Networks
January 6, 2009, 12:00am PST
Broadcasting is a commonly used feature in wireless networking, e.g. for file distribution, re-tasking, event notification, or miscellaneous maintenance. Due to the limited resources of most...
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Channel Access Reservation Strategies for Wireless Real-Time Systems
January 15, 2008, 12:00am PST
Efficient resource reservations play a vital role in providing acceptable performance and Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees (e.g., timeliness) in wireless real-time applications such as mobile...
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JumboGen: Dynamic Jumbo Frame Generation for Network Performance Scalability
June 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Network line speeds have increased at a significant rate. Unfortunately, network performance has not been able to keep pace with increases in line speed. This is due to the majority of packets...
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Attaching Cloud Storage to a Campus Grid Using Parrot, Chirp, and Hadoop
October 8, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The Hadoop filesystem is a large scale distributed filesystem used to manage and quickly process extremely large data sets. The authors want to utilize Hadoop to assist with data-intensive...
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Q&A With Tim Gilbride: What Do Consumers Really Want?
June 14, 2010, 12:00am PDT
When it comes to marketing, companies are always looking for ways to reach the right customers and waste less money on people who aren't interested. The author uses mathematics and statistics to...
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Why Reverse Mergers Are A Bad Choice For Most Businesses
September 24, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Many middle-market businesses ($1 million-$25 million) have used reverse mergers as a low-cost means of listing on capital markets. Experience has shown that for most middle-market businesses...
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Commercial Paper, Lines Of Credit, And The Real Effects Of The Financial Crisis Of 2008: Firm-Level Evidence From The Manufacturing Industry
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors use firm-level data to examine the interplay between the use of lines of credit and commercial paper, which reveals the real effects of the recent financial crisis on nonfinancial...
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Towards Long Term Data Quality in a Large Scale Biometrics Experiment
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Quality of data plays a very important role in any scientific research. In this paper the authors present some of the challenges that they face in managing and maintaining data quality for a...
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Scheduling Grid Workloads on Multicore Clusters to Minimize Energy and Maximize Performance
August 7, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Energy is a significant and growing component of the cost of running a large computing facility. A grid workload consisting of millions of jobs running on thousands of processors may consume...
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ENAVis: Enterprise Network Activities Visualization
September 9, 2008, 12:00am PDT
With the prevalence of multi-user environments, it has become an increasingly challenging task to precisely identify who is doing what on an enterprise network. Current management systems that...
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Troubleshooting Thousands of Jobs on Production Grids Using Data Mining Techniques
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Large scale production computing grids introduce new challenges in debugging and troubleshooting. A user that submits a workload consisting of tens of thousands of jobs to a grid of thousands of...
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Work in Progress - Integrating Undergraduate Research and Education With the TeamTrak Mobile Computing System
May 25, 2007, 12:00am PDT
To better prepare undergraduate students for graduate school and careers as computer scientists, the authors have undertaken an effort to increase both expertise and interest in research through a...
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Efficient Access to Many Small Files in a Filesystem for Grid Computing
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Many potential users of grid computing systems have a need to manage large numbers of small files. However, computing and storage grids are generally optimized for the management of large files....
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Grid Deployment of Legacy Bioinformatics Applications With Transparent Data Access
July 12, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Although grid computing offers great potential for executing large-scale bioinformatics applications, practical deployment is constrained by legacy interfaces. Most widely deployed bioinformatics...
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Cacheable Decentralized Groups for Grid Resource Access Control
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Sharing data among collaborators in widely distributed systems remains a challenge due to limitations with existing methods for defining groups across administrative domain boundaries with various...
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Applying Feedback Control to a Replica Management System
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Many modern storage systems used for large-scale scientific systems are multiple use, independently administrated clusters or grids. A common technique to gain storage reliability over a long...
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Toward a Data Analysis Grid for Biometrics Research
April 9, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Advanced research in biometrics presents new opportunities and challenges in grid computing. Biometric workloads are both data and computation intensive, and have the potential to be accelerated...
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Power Allocation in MIMO Wireless Systems Subject to Long-Term, Short-Term, and Per-Antenna Power Constraints
February 16, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper considers several fading channel models for which the authors aim to maximize ergodic capacity subject to different power constraints assuming that Channel State Information (CSI) is...
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Experience With BXGrid: A Data Repository and Computing Grid for Biometrics Research
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Research in the field of biometrics depends on the effective management and analysis of many terabytes of digital data. The quality of an experimental result is often highly dependent upon the...
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Scaling Up Classifiers to Cloud Computers
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
As the size of available datasets has grown from Megabytes to Gigabytes and now into Terabytes, machine learning algorithms and computing infrastructures have continuously evolved in an effort to...
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Cooperative Localization in GPS-Limited Urban Environments
April 20, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Existing localization techniques such as GPS have fundamental limitations which preclude deployment in urban canyons or areas with inconsistent network availability. Augmenting GPS requires...
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Learning to Predict Gender From Iris Images
September 17, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper employs machine learning techniques to develop models that predict gender based on the iris texture features. While there is a large body of research that explores biometrics as a means...
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New Generation of Mobile Phone Viruses and Corresponding Countermeasures
December 14, 2010, 12:00am PST
The fast growing market for smart phones coupled with their almost continuous online presence makes these devices the new targets of virus writers. It has been recently found that the topological...
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Analysis of Uncoordinated Opportunistic Two-Hop Wireless Ad Hoc Systems
January 15, 2009, 12:00am PST
The authors consider a time-slotted two-hop wireless system in which the sources transmit to the relays in the even time slots (first hop) and the relays forward the packets to the destinations in...
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Secure and Efficient Protocols for Iris and Fingerprint Identification
December 8, 2010, 12:00am PST
With recent advances in biometric recognition and the increasing use of biometric data in various applications, it is apparent that sensitive biometric data needs to be adequately protected....
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Notre Dame Business Dean Leads Tour To China
March 22, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In July 2010, University of Notre Dame business school dean Carolyn Y. Woo traveled to Shanghai to address deans of Chinese b-schools about integrating ethics and corporate social responsibility...
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~Flat Earth~ Friedman Says Financial Crisis Was A ~Warning Heart Attack~
November 3, 2010, 12:00am PDT
When historians look back at the financial crisis of 2007-08, they won't view it as just a financial crisis, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman told an audience at Notre Dame. Friedman's...
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Developing Countries Poised For Economic Supremacy, Expert Says
March 3, 2011, 12:00am PST
Developing countries like Brazil and South Korea - which were economic basket cases as recently as the late 1990s - will lead the world in growth for the next several years. The traditional...
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Interference and Outage in Clustered Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
February 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
In the analysis of large random wireless networks, the underlying node distribution is almost ubiquitously assumed to be the homogeneous Poisson point process. In this paper, the node locations...
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A Comparison and Critique of Eucalyptus, OpenNebula and Nimbus
October 6, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Eucalyptus, OpenNebula and Nimbus are three major open-source cloud-computing software platforms. The overall function of these systems is to manage the provisioning of virtual machines for a...
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Harnessing Parallelism in Multicore Clusters With the All-Pairs, Wavefront, and Make Flow Abstractions
November 9, 2009, 12:00am PST
Both distributed systems and multicore systems are difficult programming environments. Although the expert programmer may be able to carefully tune these systems to achieve high performance, the...
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Local Investors, Price Discovery, And Market Efficiency
November 18, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper examines the effect of locally informed investors on market efficiency and stock prices using large power outages, which are exogenous events that constrain trading. Turnover in stocks...
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Dividend Smoothing And Predictability
June 5, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors show that, even if dividends are supposed to be predictable without smoothing, dividend smoothing can bury this predictability in a finite sample. They further show that aggregate...
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Notre Dame Expert Tim Loughran: Facebook IPO Can Wait
March 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Facebook's IPO waiting game makes sense from a market standpoint, says Tim Loughran, finance professor at the University of Notre Dame. "If Facebook doesn't need the money at the present moment,...
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Ann Tenbrunsel: We're Not As Ethical As We Think We Are
July 6, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This original study (Woodzicka and LaFrance) conducted in 2001, in which participants were faced with this imagined scenario, revealed that 68 percent predicted that they would refuse to answer...
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Tonia Murphy Wins Outstanding Paper Award For Research On Reneging
August 24, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The paper examining the ethical considerations of job reneging won University of Notre Dame Business professor Tonia Hap Murphy the Ralph C. Hoeber Outstanding Article Award from the Academy of...
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Why Do Good Firms Lose Their Way?
October 29, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Researchers have long argued that the potential costs of getting caught decrease a prominent, high-performing firm's need and desire to engage in illegal activities. However, recent corporate...
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Consumers Still Negative Toward Marketing Efforts
August 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
As the academic year begins, back-to-school advertising is barraging consumers. But they may not view the marketing efforts in as favorable light as intended, according to a long-term study by two...
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When A Company Writes Its Code Of Ethics, Isn't It Wrong To Plagiarize?
November 20, 2008, 12:00am PST
It is common practice for companies to copy others' ethics codes, sometimes word for word, according to research by University of Notre Dame finance professors Tim Loughran and Bill McDonald and...
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Delay Analysis of Spatio-Temporal Channel Access for Cognitive Networks
February 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Most channel access schemes for cognitive radio only consider using the idle periods of the primary users. Such schemes are not using the spectrum efficiently, since transmission opportunities...
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Reactive Sink Mobility in Wireless Sensor Networks
June 11, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The ability of a sink node to move can greatly improve the fault tolerance and load balancing properties of a sensor network. Rather than assuming extensive mobility and trying to minimize the...
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Interference and Outage in Mobile Random Networks: Expectation, Distribution, and Correlation
July 31, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In mobile networks, distance variations caused by node mobility generate fluctuations in the channel gains. Such fluctuations can be treated as another type of fading besides multi-path effects....
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Superposition Coding Strategies: Design and Experimental Evaluation
August 30, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors design and implement a software-radio system for Superposition Coding (SC), a multiuser transmission scheme that deliberately introduces interference among user signals at the...
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CSOnet: A Metropolitan Scale Wireless Sensor-Actuator Network
March 13, 2008, 12:00am PDT
CSOnet is a sensor actuator network that monitors and controls the frequency of Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) events in city sewer systems. CSO events constitute a major health and environmental...
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Design and Implementation of a Portable Software Radio
June 9, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors summarize the design and development of a portable software radio prototype built primarily using commercial off-the-shelf components and open-source software. Their research group...
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Multiaccess Channels With State Known to Some Encoders and Independent Messages
February 15, 2008, 12:00am PST
The authors consider a state-dependent Multi-Access Channel (MAC) with state non-causally known to some encoders. For simplicity of exposition, they focus on a two-encoder model in which one of...
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Seamless Dynamic Runtime Reconfiguration in a Software-Defined Radio
October 4, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors discuss implementation aspects of a software-defined radio system that allows for dynamic waveform reconfiguration during runtime without interrupting data-flow processing. Traditional...
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Improving Control-Performance Across AWGN Channels Using a Relay Node
July 12, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Consider an unstable linear time invariant system in which the sensor transmits information to a controller across an additive white Gaussian noise channel. The designer can optionally utilize a...
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Secrecy From Resolvability
May 26, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors investigate an approach to physical-layer security based on the premise that the coding mechanism for secrecy over noisy channels is fundamentally tied to the notion of resolvability....
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Incremental Use of Multiple Transmitters for Low-Complexity Diversity Transmission in Wireless Systems
May 18, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors develop and analyze low-complexity approaches called Incremental Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (IMIMO) for exploiting multiple antennas for reliable high-rate...
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A Statistical Mechanics-Based Framework to Analyze Ad Hoc Networks With Random Access
February 4, 2011, 12:00am PST
Characterizing the performance of ad hoc networks is one of the most intricate open challenges; conventional ideas based on information-theoretic techniques and inequalities have not yet been able...
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Delay Characterization of Multi-Hop Transmission in a Poisson Field of Interference
March 31, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors evaluate the end-to-end delay of a multi-hop transmission scheme that includes a source, a number of relays and a destination, in the presence of interferers located according to a...
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Interference and Outage in Poisson Cognitive Networks
January 18, 2011, 12:00am PST
Consider a cognitive radio network with two types of users: Primary Users (PUs) and Cognitive Users (CUs), whose locations follow two independent Poisson point processes. The cognitive users...
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Campus-Wide Asynchronous Lecture Distribution Using Wireless Laptops
October 21, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper explored mechanisms to asynchronously distribute video objects to intranet users. The primary application driver was to disseminate lecture videos created by the instructor as well as...
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Predictors of Short-Term Decay of Cell Phone Contacts in a Large Scale Communication Network
February 14, 2011, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors explore the question of short-term decay of cell-phone contacts as a problem of decay/persistence prediction: determining what local structural features allow one to...
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Routing in Ad Hoc Networks - A Wireless Perspective
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Traditionally, the routing problem is addressed at the network layer, an approach that has been extended to the wireless realm. In wireless multi-hop networks, however, strict layer-base protocol...
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flockfs, a Moderated Group Authoring System for Wireless Workgroups
June 2, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper describes the design and implementation of a group authoring system for wireless users. The authors' analysis of the behavior of various groupware systems using wireless user...
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Recommendations for Virtualization Technologies in High Performance Computing
October 8, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The benefits of virtualization are typically considered to be server consolidation (leading to the reduction of power and cooling costs), increased availability, isolation, ease of operating...
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Mobi-Sync: Configurable Time Synchronization for Mobile Multihop Networks
May 12, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Maintaining a common notion of time among communicating nodes in mobile multihop networks is crucial to the correctness of many distributed real-time applications such as target tracking, data...
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Energy-Conscious Co-Scheduling of Tasks and Packets in Wireless Real-Time Environments
February 16, 2009, 12:00am PST
Exclusive access to the wireless medium, e.g., as provided by bandwidth-reservation mechanisms, limits contention and therefore is capable of providing effective real-time support to periodic...
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On Improving the Agility and Quality of Adaptation in QoS-Aware Routing
June 24, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Adaptation in QoS-aware routing is a process where an individual system (node, route, or network) responds to a change in its environment. This paper introduces a method to improve the agility and...
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DETOUR: Delay-And Energy-Aware Multi-Path Routing in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
June 4, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Streaming real-time applications require the timely distribution of information in mobile ad-hoc and sensor networks. At the same time, such networks must operate energy-efficiently to maximize...
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Opportunistic Wireless Broadcast (OWB): Dynamic Redundancy Detection in the Wireless Medium
May 16, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The demand for rich multimedia content is continuously increasing as exemplified by the success of sites such as YouTube, Google Video, and others. Critically, the richness of multimedia content...
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A Light Weight Method for Maintaining Clock Synchronization for Networked Systems
May 20, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Maintaining synchronization of clocks between wireless systems is a well known problem of which significant research has been performed. This has lead to a variety of methods introduced to...
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Adaptive Fragmentation for Latency Control and Energy Management in Wireless Real-Time Environments
June 6, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Wireless environments are typically characterized by unpredictable and unreliable channel conditions. In such environments, fragmentation of network-bound data is a commonly adapted technique to...
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On Improving Dynamic Source Routing for Intermittently Available Nodes in MANETs
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Previous work on routing in MANETs has resulted in numerous routing protocols that aim at satisfying constraints such as minimum hop or low energy. Existing routing protocols often fail to...
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PALER: A Reliable Transport Protocol for Code Distribution in Large Sensor Networks
April 4, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Re-tasking and remote programming of sensor networks is an essential functionality to make these networks practical and effective. As the availability of more capable sensor nodes increases and...
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Balancing Broadcast Reliability and Transmission Range in VANETs
November 17, 2010, 12:00am PST
In this paper, a novel transmits power control protocol for Vehicular Ad-hoc NETworks (VANETs) is proposed that aims to improve the reliability of safety-critical broadcasts while also maximizing...
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Lessons Learned Building TeamTrak: An Urban/Outdoor Mobile Testbed
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Much research in mobile networks relies on the use of simulations for evaluation purposes. While a number of powerful simulation tools have been developed for this purpose, only recently has the...
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Customized Routing in Mesh Networks
February 11, 2009, 12:00am PST
Wireless mesh networks are increasingly used as multi-purpose networks, i.e., they serve multiple objectives and different applications simultaneously. As a consequence, a one size-fits-all...
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Secure and Verifiable Outsourcing of Large-Scale Biometric Computations
August 31, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Cloud computing services are becoming prevalent and readily available today, bringing to one economies of scale and making large scale computation feasible. Security and privacy considerations,...
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Mispricing Of Dual-Class Shares: Profit Opportunities, Arbitrage, And Trading
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This is the first paper to examine the microstructure of how mispricing is created and resolved. The authors study an easily observable type of mispricing, i.e. dual class-shares with equal...
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GridSpace Scripting Environment - From Common Component Architecture to Cloud Components
April 9, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents an overview of the experience from investigating various approaches to component-based scientific applications on grids and clouds. The developed frameworks include the MOCCA...
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U.N. Secretary-General Invites Father Williams To Leadership Summit
June 27, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The author, a business ethics expert at the University of Notre Dame, has been invited by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to participate in the 2007 Global Compact Leaders Summit from...
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Finance Professor Ranked Among Top International Trade Experts
January 18, 2008, 12:00am PST
The author, professor of finance at the University of Notre Dame, has been recognized by the Research Papers in Economics project (RePEc) as one of the world's foremost experts in international...
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BusinessWeek Ranks Undergraduate Business Program No.3
February 29, 2008, 12:00am PST
The Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame ranked No. 3 nationally on BusinessWeek magazine third annual ranking "The Best Undergrad B-Schools." The magazine announced the...
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Business Plan Competition Winners Announced
May 12, 2008, 12:00am PDT
A plan to recycle medical equipment to cut health care costs and a venture that develops software to make wireless communication devices compatible both won top prizes of $10,000 as part of two...
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Catholic Business Education Focus Of ND Conference
June 5, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Examining the nature and scope of Catholic business education is the focus of the conference "Business Education at Catholic Universities: exploring the Role of Mission-Driven Business Schools,"...
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Tax Assistance Program Receives Presidential Team Irish Award
September 22, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The TAP program oversees more than 90 student volunteers as well as several local accountants who staff 11 area service centers. Volunteers also form "SWAT" teams to serve disabled taxpayers in...
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