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Telecommunication Law And Regulations: Third Edition
April 3, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The origins of this book lie in a University of London LLM course in Telecommunications Law, for which I became responsible and taught on when I joined the Centre for Commercial Law Studies. One...
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Cloud Computing Framework Design for Cancer Imaging Research
March 11, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper introduces the framework design, based on Microsoft technologies, existing software solutions, and image processing and visualization toolkits, to overcome various issues that medical...
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Investment Intermediaries In Economic Development: Linking Public Pension Funds To Urban Revitalization
June 13, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Investing in America's inner cities is an innovative practice in which large institutional investors, such as public pension funds, can enjoy financial and social returns while spurring economic...
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Reducing Power Consumption in Wireless Sensor Networks Using a Novel Approach to Data Aggregation
May 25, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Saving energy is a very critical issue in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) since sensor nodes are typically powered by batteries with a limited capacity. Since the radio is the main cause of power...
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Investigating the Cloud Computing Business Framework - Modelling and Benchmarking of Financial Assets and Job Submissions in Clouds
September 4, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Literature identifies three business challenges in clouds: little linkage between qualitative and quantitative cloud business frameworks in the same domain; few structured frameworks to measure...
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Fitting Vast Dimensional Time-Varying Covariance Models
September 24, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Building models for high dimensional portfolios is important in risk management and asset allocation. Here the authors propose a novel and fast way of estimating models of time-varying...
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Financial Development, Financial Instability And Poverty
February 9, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper investigates how financial development is beneficial to the reduction of poverty, on the one hand by promoting growth and in the other hand directly by the McKinnon conduit effect. At...
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HepML, an XML-Based Format for Describing Simulated Data in High Energy Physics
August 12, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In this paper the authors describe a HepML format and a corresponding C++ library developed for keeping complete description of parton level events in a unified and flexible form. HepML tags...
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Risk, Asset Markets And Inequality: Evidence From Medieval England
October 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries English peasants faced large income shocks relative to mean incomes. Innovations in property rights over land induced peasants to respond by trading...
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The Price Of Time And Labour Supply: From The Black Death To The Industrious Revolution
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In pre-industrial economies labour supply curves often bend backwards at very low levels of income. This changed prior to the industrial revolution: total working hours increased (De Vries (1993,...
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Inferring the Composition of a Trader Population in a Financial Market
June 6, 2007, 12:00am PDT
There has been an explosion in the number of models proposed for understanding and interpreting the dynamics of financial markets. Broadly speaking, all such models can be classified into two...
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Avoidance Policies - A New Conceptual Framework
August 21, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper develops a general theoretical framework within which a heterogeneous group taxpayers confront a market that supplies a variety of schemes for reducing tax liability, and uses this...
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Modelling in Java
April 26, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The development of software systems may be facilitated through modeling at different levels of abstraction. Various factors conspire to de-emphasise modeling in a commercial development process,...
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The Legitimation Of Power In Business To Business Relationships
June 22, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Comment on the existence and perceived consequences within networks of what are often labelled 'Asymmetrical relationships' has been made by many different bodies. For example, there are academic...
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Science, Technology And Development: Emerging Concepts And Visions
January 9, 2009, 12:00am PST
When discussing Science and Technology for development, it has often been tempting to talk about the radical nature, the paradigm shift, of new scientific breakthroughs or technological inventions...
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Sustainability Of Technology-Intensive Social Innovation: The Role Of Absorptive Capacity, Complementary Assets And Customer Freedom Of Choice
January 22, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper explores the determinants of the sustainability of technology-intensive social innovation with special emphasis on absorptive capacity and complementary assets. A series of cases...
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China?s Development Model: An Alternative Strategy For Technological Catch-Up
January 9, 2009, 12:00am PST
The context in which Chinese firms and, as a nation, China is attempting to catch-up is fundamentally different that that facing earlier latecomers such as Japan and Korea. This paper contrasts...
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When A Good Science Base Is Not Enough To Create Competitive Industries: Lock-in And Inertia In Russian Systems Of Innovation
January 9, 2009, 12:00am PST
Despite having a formidable position in terms of domestic R&D activity and a well-developed science and technology infrastructure prior to transition, Russia has failed to create a competitive...
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The Global Dimension Off Innovation Systems And Enterprise Upgrading ? Linking Innovation Systems And Global Value Chains
January 9, 2009, 12:00am PST
The paper argues that Innovation Systems (IS) interact with Global Value Chains (GVCs) in multiple ways, and that they influence whether and how developing countries' firms may benefit from...
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A Comprehensive Model Of Technological Learning: Empirical Research On Chinese Manufacturing Sector
January 9, 2009, 12:00am PST
As the globalization accelerates its pace, made-in-China products have been travelling around the world for the last few decades. But in Chinese firms, their core technologies are still to a large...
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Patterns Of Multinationals? Technological Strategies In Emerging Economies: Evidences From Brazil And India
January 9, 2009, 12:00am PST
A key factor behind a country's ability to attract knowledge-based foreign Investment is an institutional context oriented towards innovation. The development of such a context is not an easy task...
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Industrial Upgrading In Sub-Saharan Africa: The Competitive Impact Of China On Supplier Linkage Development Potentials Of Resident Asian Entepreneurs
February 14, 2010, 12:00am PST
Current efforts to explain the implications of China's growing economic attractiveness for development in other regions provide a framework that distinguishes between complimentary and competitive...
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Innovation Performance And Local Embeddedness Of MNE-Subsidiaries: Evidence From Brazil
October 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines the innovation performance of MNE subsidiaries and their embeddedness in sources of local knowledge and in a policy framework within the context of an emerging economy. Based...
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China And The World: Assessment And Prospect Of The ?Post-Crisis? Era
February 21, 2011, 12:00am PST
There have appeared four obvious trends in the present global development: economic globalization, ICT revolution, growing diversification of the world and green industrial revolution. Side by...
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Global Challenges From The Rapid Rise Of China
March 14, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Over the last 30 years there has already been a significant power shift to developing world in general and to China in particular. Section A tracks the shift in economic power to China by looking...
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Uncanny Partnership In Global Imbalances: China?s Continual Accumulation Of US Treasuries
February 21, 2011, 12:00am PST
The combination of American consumption excess and China's financial extravaganza in accumulating US treasuries has widely been perceived as a major contributor to the global imbalances. The...
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The Dual Role Of Universities In Industrial Innovation In Emerging Economies: A Comparative Study Of China And The UK
February 21, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper attempts to investigate the role of universities in industrial innovation in emerging economies using a firm-level survey database from China. It also benchmarks the Chinese pattern...
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The Changing Nature Of The "Atmosphere‟ In B2B Relationships
June 30, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Much of the change in the nature of the 'Atmosphere' which occurs as organizations interact within networks is determined by the relationships which develop between the organizations' boundary...
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The Involvement And Influence Of Emotions In Business Relationships
August 26, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper discusses emotions as mediators in business-to-business relationships, an area that is understudied. Within consumer marketing, emotions have been widely studied, and calls have been...
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International Cooperation And The Antitrafficking Regime
December 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
States have cooperated on combating trafficking in persons for over a century. Over this period, the focus of countering trafficking in persons has broadened, moving from women exclusively, to...
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A Dissimilarity Index Of Multidimensional Inequality Of Opportunity
November 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
A recent literature on inequality of opportunity offers quantitative tools for comparisons and measurement based on stochastic dominance criteria and traditional inequality indices. In this paper...
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Inequality, Interactions, And Human Development
August 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The Human Development Index, which is multidimensional by construction, is criticized on the ground that it is insensitive to any form of inequality across persons. Inequality in the...
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Winning Ideas: Lessons From Free-Market Economics
September 3, 2007, 12:00am PDT
For economic ideas to take root and change history, a number of ingredients need to be present, ranging from individual agents to policy implementation. This paper identifies certain strategic...
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The Role Of Internal And International Relative Deprivation In Global Migration
April 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper analyses the role of internal (within-country) and international (bilateral and global) relative deprivation and absolute deprivation in international migration. It is argued that these...
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Intra-Household Tensions And Conflicts Of Interest In Migration Decision Making: A Case Study Of The Todgha Valley, Morocco
September 25, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper explores the role of intra-household tensions and conflicts of interest in explaining the diverse return and pendulum migration strategies among Moroccan migrants who first migrated to...
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South-South Migration And Human Development Reflections On African Experiences
May 12, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper looks at the relationship between migration between developing countries - or countries of the global 'South' - and processes of human development. The paper offers a critical analysis...
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Analysis of a Gossip Protocol in PRISM
October 20, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Gossip protocols have been proposed as a robust and efficient method for disseminating information throughout dynamically changing networks. The authors present an analysis of a gossip protocol...
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The Effects of Software Size on Development Effort and Software Quality
June 11, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Effective evaluation of software development effort is an important issue during project plan. This paper provides a model to predict development effort based on the software size estimated with...
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Temporal Evolution Of Financial Market Correlations
May 23, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors investigate financial market correlations using random matrix theory and principal component analysis. They use random matrix theory to demonstrate that correlation matrices of asset...
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Abstraction Refinement for Probabilistic Software
October 24, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors present a methodology and implementation for verifying ANSI-C programs that exhibit probabilistic behaviour, such as failures or randomisation. They use abstraction-refinement...
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Software Verification for Weak Memory Via Program Transformation
July 30, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Despite multiprocessors implementing weak memory models, verification methods often assume Sequential Consistency (SC), thus may miss bugs due to weak memory. The authors propose a sound...
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Reasoning About Codata
April 26, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Programmers happily use induction to prove properties of recursive programs. To show properties of co-recursive programs they employ co-induction, but perhaps less enthusiastically. Co-induction...
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Provenance as a Security Control
May 20, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Much has been written about security and provenance. Although both have their own large areas of concern, there is a very significant intersection. One is often brought to bear upon the other, in...
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Advances in Probabilistic Model Checking
December 2, 2011, 12:00am PST
Probabilistic model checking is an automated verification method that aims to establish the correctness of probabilistic systems. Probability may arise, for example, due to failures of unreliable...
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Rewriting Ontological Queries Into Small Non-recursive Datalog Programs
June 28, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper is about query rewriting in the context of ontological database access. Query rewriting is an important new optimization technique specific to ontological queries. The essence of query...
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Privacy for mHealth Presence
December 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
mHealth data provision focuses on providing health services to patients via mobile devices and presence technologies. It has great influence to the healthcare business today, especially in the...
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A Web Specific Language for Content Management Systems
October 3, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Many web applications can be specified in terms of the content-types and security policies they provide. Some web frameworks aim to ease the implementation of this family of programs. The authors...
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1xM Packet-Switched Router Based on the PPM Header Address for All-Optical WDM Networks
August 4, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents all-optical 1xM router architecture for simultaneous multiple-wavelength packet routing, without the need for wavelength conversion. The packet header address is based on the...
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Interplay of Processing and Routing in Aggregate Query Optimization for Sensor Networks
October 8, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents a novel approach to processing continuous aggregate queries in sensor networks, which lifts the assumption of tree-based routing. Given a query workload and a special-purpose...
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Prospect Theory, Partial Liquidation And The Disposition Effect
February 24, 2009, 12:00am PST
The authors solve a liquidation problem for an agent with prospect theory preferences who seeks to sell a portfolio of (divisible) claims on an underlying asset. Their methodology enables them to...
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Does Beta Move With News? Systematic Risk And Firm-Specific Information Flows
February 16, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper studies time-varying patterns in the systematic risk (or beta) of individual stocks during firm-specific information flows. The authors show that systematic risk increases by an...
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The Life Cycle Of Family Ownership: A Comparative Study Of France, Germany, Italy And The U.K.
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Using firm-level data for the largest four European economies, this paper analyzes the evolution of ownership of the largest 4,000 companies, private or listed, in France, Germany, Italy and the...
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A New Collision-Free Pseudonym Scheme in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
April 23, 2009, 12:00am PDT
A Mobile Ad hoc NETwork (MANET) is a decentralized network of mobile nodes. Due to the broadcast nature of radio transmissions, communication in MANETs is more susceptible to malicious traffic...
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What Should Fiscal Councils Do?
February 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Fiscal councils now exist in a number of countries. This paper first considers the extent of deficit bias, potential explanations for it, and how independent institutions could help reduce it. Are...
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Comparing The Delegation Of Monetary And Fiscal Policy
March 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The apparent success of independent central banks in conducting monetary policy has led many to argue that some form of policy delegation should also be applied to the macroeconomic aspects of...
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Fiscal Policy Adjustment To Shocks In Commodity-producing Countries
May 21, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper investigates the optimal fiscal policy adjustment to adverse terms of trade shocks by commodity-producing countries within a general equilibrium model, which allows for explicit...
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When Is Monetary Policy All We Need?
May 8, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors consider optimal monetary and fiscal policies in a New Keynesian model of a small open economy with sticky prices and wages. In this benchmark setting monetary policy is all they need...
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Monetary Policy In A Currency Union With Heterogeneous Limited Asset Markets Participation
November 19, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper examines monetary policy in a currency union whose member countries exhibit heterogeneous rates of Limited Asset Markets Participation (LAMP). As a result risk sharing among member...
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Endogenous Indexing And Monetary Policy Models
August 6, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Models in which firms use a rule of thumb or partial indexing in price setting are prominent in the recent monetary policy literature. The extent to which these firms adjust their prices to lagged...
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Globalized Finance And National Regulation: The Influence Of Internationalization On Supervisory Consolidation
August 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Financial regulatory reform remains high on global and national political agendas. Some proposals call for the consolidation of regulatory structures by merging or eliminating existing regulatory...
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The Effect Of Macroeconomic Shocks On A Small Open Economy With Financial Accelerator: Lessons For Eastern Europe
November 27, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper considers the effect of four shocks on the economies of the ten Eastern European transitional countries that recently joined the European Union. Each of these shocks stems from the...
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Aggregation Versus Heterogeneity In Cross-Country Growth Empirics
October 7, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The cross-country growth literature commonly uses aggregate economy datasets such as the Penn World Table (PWT) to estimate homogeneous production function or convergence regression models....
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Using Quantitative Analysis to Implement Autonomic IT Systems
February 8, 2009, 12:00am PST
The software underpinning today's IT systems needs to adapt dynamically and predictably to rapid changes in system workload, environment and objectives. The authors describe a software framework...
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Context-Sensitive Requirements and Risk Analysis
July 19, 2009, 12:00am PDT
When a system's context of use changes, the security impact may be felt in other contexts. Risks mitigated for one operational context may continue to pose a danger in others due to contextual...
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Analysing and Visualising Security and Usability in IRIS
November 19, 2009, 12:00am PST
Despite a long-standing need to incorporate human factors into security risk analysis, taking a balanced approach to analysing security and usability concerns remain a challenge. Balancing...
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Barry Is Not the Weakest Link: Eliciting Secure System Requirements With Personas
June 10, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Building secure and usable systems mean specifying systems for the people using it and the tasks they carry out, rather than vice-versa. User-centered design approaches encourage an early focus on...
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The Secret Lives of Assumptions: Developing and Refining Assumption Personas for Secure System Design
August 6, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Personas are useful for obtaining an empirically grounded understanding of a secure system's user population, its contexts of use, and possible vulnerabilities and threats endangering it. Often,...
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A Model of Security Culture for e-Science
March 26, 2010, 12:00am PDT
There is a need to understand the cultural issues affecting security in large, distributed and heterogeneous systems; such systems are typified by e-Science projects. The authors present a model...
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Security and Usability: Searching for the Philosopher's Stone
September 30, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper describes the unique challenges facing usable security research and design, and introduces three proposals for addressing these. For all intents and purposes security design is...
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Two Requirements for Usable and Secure Software Engineering
January 30, 2011, 12:00am PST
Despite the acknowledged need for systems to be both usable and secure, the authors lack guidance on how developers might build such systems. Based on recent research, they believe evidence exists...
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User-Centered Information Security Policy Development in a Post-Stuxnet World
May 31, 2011, 12:00am PDT
A balanced approach is needed for developing information security policies in Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) contexts. Requirements engineering methods can facilitate such an approach, but...
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Here's Johnny: A Methodology for Developing Attacker Personas
June 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The adversarial element is an intrinsic part of the design of secure systems, but the assumptions about attackers and threat is often limited or stereotypical. Although there has been previous...
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Trusted Computing and Provenance: Better Together
February 11, 2010, 12:00am PST
It is widely realised that provenance systems can benefit from greater awareness of security principles and the use of security technology. In this paper, the authors argue that trusted computing,...
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SUAAVE: Combining Aerial Robots and Wireless Networking
February 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The SUAAVE project is funded by EPSRC under the WINES wireless networking initiative to consider issues of multiple aerial vehicles communicating and collaborating in performing tasks, and...
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Conceptual Knowledge Acquisition Using Automatically Generated Large-Scale Semantic Networks
April 8, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors present a method for automatically creating large-scale semantic networks from natural language text, based on deep semantic analysis. They provide a robust and scalable...
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On Software Verification for Sensor Nodes
November 23, 2010, 12:00am PST
The authors consider software written for networked, wireless sensor nodes, and specialize software verification techniques for standard C programs in order to locate programming errors in sensor...
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On the Modelling and Analysis of Amazon Web Services Access Policies
November 19, 2009, 12:00am PST
Cloud computing is a conceptual paradigm that is receiving a great deal of interest from a variety of major commercial organisations. By building systems which run within cloud computing...
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Design and Verification of On-Chip Communication Protocols
April 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Modern computer systems rely more and more on on-chip communication protocols to exchange data. To tackle performance requirements these protocols have become highly complex, which makes their...
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The Ten-Page Introduction to Trusted Computing
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Networked computer systems underlie a great deal of business, social, and government activity today. Everyone is expected to place a great deal of trust in their correct operation, but experience...
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Productivity Analysis In Global Manufacturing Production
November 2, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Despite the widely recognised importance of the manufacturing industry for successful development few studies investigate this sector in cross-country analysis. The authors fill this gap in the...
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