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Rhizoma: A Runtime for Self-Deploying, Self-Managing Overlays
August 26, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The trend towards cloud and utility computing infrastructures raises challenges not only for application development, but also for management: diverse resources, changing resource availability,...
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Model-Based Testing Without a Model: Assessing Portability in the Seattle Testbed
August 16, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Despite widespread OS, network, and hardware heterogeneity, there has been a lack of research into quantifying and improving portability of a programming environment. The authors have constructed...
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DeSEO: Combating Search-Result Poisoning
June 9, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors perform an in-depth study of SEO attacks that spread malware by poisoning search results for popular queries. Such attacks, although recent, appear to be both widespread and effective....
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Automatically Recommending Triage Decisions for Pragmatic Reuse Tasks
September 2, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Planning a complex software modification task imposes a high cognitive burden on developers, who must juggle navigating the software, understanding what they see with respect to their task, and...
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New Directions for Self-Destructing Data Systems
August 17, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper seeks to advance the state of the art in practical self-destructing data systems that secure sensitive data from disclosure in the highly mobile, social-networked, cloud-computing...
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Symbol by Symbol Doppler Rate Estimation for Highly Mobile Underwater OFDM
May 18, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors propose an OFDM-receiver capable of estimating and correcting, on a symbol-by-symbol basis, the subcarrier dependent Doppler shifting due to the movement of source and receiver in an...
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On Feature Based Automatic Classification of Single and Multitone Signals
May 12, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors consider the problem of feature based automatic classification of single and multitone signals. Their objective is to extend existing blind demodulation techniques to multitone...
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A Software Radio-Based UHF RFID Reader for PHY/MAC Experimentation
March 15, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors present the design and evaluation of a flexible UHF RFID reader that enables new PHY/MAC designs to be prototyped and evaluated. Their reader is built using the USRP software radio...
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Dewdrop: An Energy-Aware Runtime for Computational RFID
March 2, 2011, 12:00am PST
Computational RFID (CRFID) tags embed sensing and computation into the physical world. The operation of the tags is limited by the RF energy that can be harvested from a nearby power source. The...
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Secure Communication in Cognitive Radio Networks
February 18, 2010, 12:00am PST
Support for various multimedia applications in wireless networks demands additional bandwidth in the radio frequency spectrum. Efficient spectrum management algorithms are necessary to achieve...
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Inference and Checking of Object Ownership
May 15, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Ownership type systems describe a heap topology and enforce an encapsulation discipline; they aid in various program correctness and understanding tasks. However, the annotation overhead of...
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Verification Games: Making Verification Fun
May 20, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Program verification is the only way to be certain that a given piece of software is free of (certain types of) errors - errors that could otherwise disrupt operations in the field. To date,...
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NeuralWISP: An Energy-Harvesting Wireless Neural Interface With 1-M Range
October 6, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors present the NeuralWISP, a wireless neural interface operating from harvested RF energy. The NeuralWISP is compatible with commercial RFID readers and operates at a range up to 1m. It...
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Advancing Computer Vision by Leveraging Humans
March 8, 2012, 12:00am PST
This discussion on human-centered contributions to computing describes recent efforts in expanding the roles humans play in advancing computer vision. In the first part of this webcast, the...
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Predicting the Present With Google Trends
March 8, 2012, 12:00am PST
In this webcast, the presenter explains how to use Google Trends data to measure the state of the economy in various sectors, and discuss some of the implications for research and policy.
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Parallel Programmability for High Performance Computing
March 8, 2012, 12:00am PST
In this webcast, the presenter describes Chapel, an emerging language from Cray, Inc., that strives to address challenges to parallel programmability by making it more productive for both High...
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Adventures in Scaling the Multicore Memory Wall
March 8, 2012, 12:00am PST
In this webcast, the presenter covers three different approaches to multicore cache management that can help bridge the "Memory wall." If the application thread mapping and the cache topology are...
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GraphLab: A Distributed Abstraction for Machine Learning
February 7, 2012, 12:00am PST
Today, machine learning (ML) methods play a central role in industry and science. In this webcast, the presenter describes the GraphLab framework, which naturally expresses asynchronous, dynamic...
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Optimizing Human Computation
March 8, 2012, 12:00am PST
In this webcast, the presenter describes crowdsourcing work on two fronts. First, Crowd Algorithms, which view the crowd as data processors to design human computation versions of fundamental...
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Crowd Computation: Social Computing and Mass Disruption
March 27, 2012, 12:00am PDT
In this webcast, the presenter describes several ways in which members of the social media crowd act to shape the information space through their actions and interactions within the space.
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The Journey of the Entrepreneur
June 15, 2012, 12:00am PDT
In this webcast, the presenter shares stories from the trenches, lessons learned and insights about what it takes for a promising technology to become an innovation that changes the world.
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Photo Tourism at Google
June 15, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Two years ago, researcher Steve Seitz created a new 3D computer vision group in Google's Seattle office. In this webcast, the presenter discusses what the group has been up to, including Picasa...
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Hogwild for Machine Learning on Multicore
June 15, 2012, 12:00am PDT
In this webcast, the presenter provides both theoretical and experimental evidence demonstrating the achievement of linear speedups on multi-core workstations on several benchmark optimization...
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Document Discovery: Advancing Research With Large Knowledge Networks
February 7, 2012, 12:00am PST
By putting the world's scholarly literature online, publisher websites and digital archives have made millions articles instantly available anywhere, any time, in digital form. In this webcast,...
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Towards Balanced, Data-Intensive Scalable Computing
December 9, 2011, 12:00am PST
While many interesting systems are able to scale linearly with additional servers, per-server performance can lag behind per-server capacity by more than an order of magnitude. In this webcast,...
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Computer Science and Engineering Distinguished Lecturer Series-Internet-Scale Storage
December 9, 2011, 12:00am PST
The pace of innovation in data center design has been rapidly accelerating over the last 5 years, driven by the mega-service operators. In this webcast, the presenter will take apart a high-scale...
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Cooperative Concurrency for a Multicore World
December 8, 2011, 12:00am PST
Multi-threaded programs are notoriously prone to unintended interference between concurrent threads. To address this problem, these presenters argue that yield annotations in the source code...
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Using Surrogate Benchmarks to Project the Performance of HPC Applications
December 8, 2011, 12:00am PST
Performance projections of High Performance Computing (HPC) applications onto various hardware platforms are important for hardware vendors and HPC users. The projections aid hardware vendors in...
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Full Duplex Wireless
November 4, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In this webcast, the presenter describing that a full-duplex radio - a radio that can receive and transmit simultaneously on the same frequency, like a two-lane bridge - can be built using...
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Trust Mobile Systems
June 8, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In this webcast, the presenter explains about "How he learned to stop worrying and trust mobile systems" and Mobile phones have become the eyes and ears of the Internet by placing digital...
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Heads in the Cloud: New Approaches for Access Technology
February 9, 2011, 12:00am PST
In this webcast, the presenter discusses the potential for always-available human computation to fill in remaining gaps in order to make intelligent user interfaces useful and practical in the...
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Computer Science and Engineering Distinguished Lecturer Series-Rethinking the Energy Infrastructure From an IT Perspective
January 22, 2010, 12:00am PST
In this webcast, the presenter investigates how to design an essentially more scalable, flexible and resilient electric power infrastructure-one that encourages efficient use, integrates local...
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The Cyberspace Data Explosion: Boon or Black Hole?
December 21, 2009, 12:00am PST
The people are entering a cyber world where millions of sensors continuously collect data. From the ocean bottom to deep space, scientists are monitoring environments at unprecedented scales. On a...
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Parallel and Asynchronous Programming With F#
January 21, 2010, 12:00am PST
F# is a succinct and expressive typed functional programming language in the context of a modern, applied software development environment (.NET), and Microsoft will be supporting F# as a first...
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EPC RFID Tags in Security Applications: Passport Cards, Enhanced Drivers Licenses, and Beyond
October 22, 2008, 12:00am PDT
EPC (Electronic Product Code) tags are industry-standard RFID devices poised to supplant optical barcodes in many applications. They are prevalent in case and pallet tracking, and also percolating...
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Experimental Results With Two Wireless Power Transfer Systems
October 16, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper describes two wireless power transfer systems. The Wireless Identification and Sensing Platform (WISP) is a platform for sensing and computation that is powered and read by a commercial...
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Multi-Domain RFID Access Control Using Asymmetric Key Based Tag-Reader Mutual Authentication
June 20, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Multi-domain RFID applications, such as asset tracking across domains, shift the paradigm in business model and enable next-generation business processes for aviation industry. The increasing...
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SEMEX: Toward On-the-Fly Personal Information Integration
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
On-the-y information integration attempts to change the basic cost-benefit equation association with building information integration applications. This paper argues that on-the-fly can be...
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Advanced Travel Information System in Heterogeneous Networks
November 14, 2009, 12:00am PST
In order to achieve better road utilization and traffic efficiency, there is an urgent need for a travel information delivery mechanism to assist the drivers in making better decisions in the...
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A Complete and Efficient Algebraic Compiler for XQuery
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
As XQuery nears standardization, more sophisticated XQuery applications are emerging, which often exploit the entire language and are applied to non-trivial XML sources. The authors propose an...
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Modular Verification of Software Components in C
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The authors present a new methodology for automatic verification of C programs against finite state machine specifications. The approach is compositional, naturally enabling one to decompose the...
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Privacy-Preserving Location Tracking of Lost or Stolen Devices: Cryptographic Techniques and Replacing Trusted Third Parties With DHTs
May 13, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors tackle the problem of building privacy-preserving device-tracking systems - or private methods to assist in the recovery of lost or stolen Internet-connected mobile devices. The main...
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Large-Scale Deduplication With Constraints Using Dedupalog
November 7, 2008, 12:00am PST
The authors present a declarative framework for collective deduplication of entity references in the presence of constraints. Constraints occur naturally in many data cleaning domains and can...
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Privacy Versus Scalability in Radio Frequency Identification Systems
August 6, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Embedding a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag into individual items enables the unique identification of such items over the wireless medium, without the need for a line-of-sight path. One...
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White Paper On Interoperability Between Acquisitions Modules Of Integrated Library Systems And Electronic Resource Management Systems
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
The white paper investigates interoperability between the acquisitions modules of integrated library systems (ILS) and electronic resource management systems (ERMS). The paper concludes with a...
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Client + Cloud: Evaluating Seamless Architectures for Visual Data Analytics in the Ocean Sciences
April 14, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Science is becoming data-intensive, requiring new software architectures that can exploit resources at all scales: local GPUs for interactive visualization, server-side multi-core machines with...
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Demystifying 802.11n Power Consumption
September 7, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper report what the authors believe to be the first measurements of the power consumption of an 802.11n NIC across a broad set of operating states (Channel width; transmit power, rates,...
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Fully Accessible Touch Screens for the Blind and Visually Impaired
May 21, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Recent advances in touch screen technology have increased the usability of touch screens for sighted users and prompted a wave of new touch screen-based devices. However, touch screens are still...
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CloudViews: Communal Data Sharing in Public Clouds
May 26, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Web services are undergoing an exciting transition from in-house data centers to public clouds. Attracted by automatic scalability and extremely low compute, storage, and management costs, Web...
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Secure Wireless Collection and Distribution of Commercial Airplane Health Data
September 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The introduction of wireless communication capabilities supporting transfer of sensor data and information on board commercial airplanes as well as between airplanes and supporting ground systems...
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Challenges to Physicians' Use of a Wireless Alert Pager
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Pagers, Personal Data Assistants (PDAs) and other devices that have wireless connectivity are becoming a popular method for delivering patient related information to medical decision makers....
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Simultaneous Multithreading: A Platform for Next-Generation Processors
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
With the dizzying pace of semiconductor technology development, CPU designers are squeezing previously unimaginable amounts of hardware onto a single chip. Over the next 15 years the authors can...
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JavaML: A Markup Language for Java Source Code
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The classical plain-text representation of source code is convenient for programmers but requires parsing to uncover the deep structure of the program. While sophisticated software tools parse...
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Identifying Game Players With Mouse Biometrics
December 8, 2008, 12:00am PST
Recent work in mouse movement analysis has determined that, with sufficient data, users can be uniquely identified solely by their mouse movements. This paper considers the domain of video games...
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Mobile Marketing Derailed: How Curbing Cellphone Spam in Satterfield V. Simon & Schuster May Have Banned Text-Message Advertising
June 15, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The risk of receiving cell-phone spam - in the form of unsolicited text messages - grows as advertisers increasingly target cell-phone users. The Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 (TCPA)...
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Execution Characteristics of Desktop Applications On Windows NT
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper examines the performance of desktop applications running on the Microsoft Windows NT operating system on Intel x86 processors, and contrasts these applications to the programs in the...
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Data Centers and Mission Critical Facilities Operations Procedures
April 15, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In order to provide reliable, safe and secure data centers and mission critical facilities, certain practices must be instituted and enforced. This paper establishes standards and procedures for...
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ETTM: A Scalable Network Operating System
May 9, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, authors design, implement, and evaluate a new scalable and fault tolerant network operating system, called ETTM, for securely and efficiently managing network resources at a packet...
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Learning Source Descriptions for Data Integration
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
To build a data-integration system, the application designer must specify a mediated schema and supply the descriptions of data sources. A source description contains a source schema that...
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Scale-Free Network Structure Explains the City-Size Distribution
October 30, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Zipf's law is one of the most well-known empirical regularities of the city-size distribution and explaining it has long been the Holy Grail of urban economics. There is extensive research on the...
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Bottom-Up Learning of Markov Network Structure
June 2, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The structure of a Markov network is typically learned using top-down search. At each step, the search specializes a feature by conjoining it to the variable or feature that most improves the...
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A Conference Control Protocol for Highly Interactive Video-conferencing
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Video-conferencing is an efficient means for distributed collaboration especially for people separated by substantial distance. One can identify various paradigms of distributed multimedia...
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Detecting Parser Errors Using Web-Based Semantic Filters
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
NLP systems for tasks such as question answering and information extraction typically rely on statistical parsers. But the efficacy of such parsers can be surprisingly low, particularly for...
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New Directions in Peer-to-Peer Malware
April 4, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Intruders are constantly changing, improving, and extending the capabilities of their malicious software (malware). Not only have their tools evolved from single-purpose programs run manually to...
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Vanish: Increasing Data Privacy With Self-Destructing Data
June 5, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents Vanish, a system that meets this challenge through a novel integration of cryptographic techniques with global-scale, P2P, Distributed Hash Tables (DHTs). The paper implemented...
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Pacemakers and Implantable Cardiac Defibrillators: Software Radio Attacks and Zero-Power Defenses
March 12, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The study analyzes the security and privacy properties of an Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD). Introduced to the U.S. market in 2003, this model of ICD includes pacemaker technology...
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Data Analysis and Reduction Using Stationary Solutions of the NLS Equation
August 12, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper demonstrates that the stationary solutions of the Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation (NLS) can be used as an orthonormal basis for the square integrable functions with periodic boundary...
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The Security Architecture of the Chromium Browser
April 24, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Most current web browsers employ a monolithic architecture that combines "The User" and "The Web" into a single protection domain. An attacker who exploits arbitrary code execution vulnerability...
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SEMEX: Toward On-the-Fly Personal Information Integration
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
On-the-y information integration attempts to change the basic cost-benefit equation association with building information integration applications. This paper argues that on-the-fly can be...
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Multi-Domain RFID Access Control Using Asymmetric Key Based Tag-Reader Mutual Authentication
June 20, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Multi-domain RFID applications, such as asset tracking across domains, shift the paradigm in business model and enable next-generation business processes for aviation industry. The increasing...
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Experimental Results With Two Wireless Power Transfer Systems
October 16, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper describes two wireless power transfer systems. The Wireless Identification and Sensing Platform (WISP) is a platform for sensing and computation that is powered and read by a commercial...
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EPC RFID Tags in Security Applications: Passport Cards, Enhanced Drivers Licenses, and Beyond
October 22, 2008, 12:00am PDT
EPC (Electronic Product Code) tags are industry-standard RFID devices poised to supplant optical barcodes in many applications. They are prevalent in case and pallet tracking, and also percolating...
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Dynamic XML-Based Exchange of Relational Data: Application to the Human Brain Project
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper discusses an approach to exporting relational data in XML format for data exchange over the web. They describe the first real-world application of SilkRoute, a middleware program that...
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Processing XML Streams With Deterministic Automata
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper considers the problem of evaluating a large number of XPath expressions on an XML stream. The main contribution consists in showing that Deterministic Finite Automata (DFA) can be used...
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Measurement and Analysis of a Streaming-Media Workload
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
The increasing availability of continuous-media data is provoking a significant change in Internet workloads. For example, video from news, sports, and entertainment sites, and audio from Internet...
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Preventing Internet Denial-of-Service With Capabilities
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper proposes a new approach to preventing and constraining Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks. Instead of being able to send anything to anyone at any time, in one's architecture, nodes must...
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