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Implementing a Model-Based Design Environment for Clinical Information Systems
September 28, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Health care is a rapidly evolving field that is increasingly supported through Clinical Information Systems (CIS) that integrate care providers, patients, and computer applications. Local and...
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Oblivious Routing for Wireless Mesh Networks
February 28, 2008, 12:00am PST
Wireless mesh networks have attracted increasing attention and deployment as a high-performance and low-cost solution to last-mile broadband Internet access. Traffic routing plays a critical role...
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Political Regimes, Business Cycles, Seasonalities, And Returns
December 17, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper provides a method for testing for regime differences when regimes are long-lasting. Standard testing procedures are generally inappropriate because regime persistence causes a spurious...
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2008 Commencement: Howard Lutnick
May 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
CEO Howard Lutnick shared his views on the heart and soul of business and how his company, Cantor Fitzgerald, grew larger and more diverse since 658 employees perished in the September 2001 attack...
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President Of NBC Creative Services Speaks At Owen
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In this webcast, Vince Manze, President of NBC Creative Services, talks about his experience in the entertainment industry and the future of global media.
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2008 Financial Innovation Conference: Leo Melamed
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Melamed, Chairman Emeritus of the CME Group and the founder of the first futures market, delivered the keynote address at the first-ever Conference on Financial Innovation hosted by Owen.
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2008 Financial Innovation Conference: Robert Merton
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Merton, a 1997 Nobel laureate in Economics and co-author of two landmark financial studies speaks on the current tumult in the financial markets and the future of financial innovation.
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The Obama Effect
February 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
A test-taking performance gap was virtually eliminated during key moments of the 2008 presidential race. Owen professor Ray Friedman discusses his research on this phenomenon.
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2009 Commencement: Charles Holliday
May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Holliday, chairman of the board of DuPont, delivered a dynamic, concise commencement address to the class of 2009. He first counseled graduates to thoroughly research each company they work for to...
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Dawn Iacobucci
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Professor Iacobucci is a renowned expert on networks, customer satisfaction and service marketing, and quantitative psychological research.
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Dick Daft
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
A noted expert in organization behavior and organization design, Professor Daft has published 12 books, dozens of articles, and presented at more than 45 universities around the world.
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Jim Schorr
December 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
In this webcast, Professor Schorr, co-founder of Net Impact, speaks on corporate social responsibility.
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Bruce Barry
December 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Bruce Barry, Professor of Management and Sociology, blends business with the study of social issues such as ethics, workplace rights and public policy.
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Inside The C-Suite: Mike Hyatt
April 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Inside the C-Suite Video interview with Mike Hyatt, Chairman and CEO of Thomas Nelson. Interview by Jim Bradford, Dean of the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management.
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Maintaining QoS for Publish/Subscribe Middleware Via Autonomic Adaptation
June 29, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Quality of Service (QoS)-enabled Publish/Subscribe (Pub/Sub) middleware provides powerful support for data dissemination. It is hard, however, to maintain specified QoS properties such as...
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Larry LeBlanc On Advanced Excel Analysis
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Professor LeBlanc's research interests include reducing spreadsheet risk, supply chain analysis, application of spreadsheet optimization models, implementation of algorithms for large-scale...
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Bruce Barry On Ethics
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Professor Barry's research and expertise cover social issues in management, including ethics, workplace rights, public policy, and new media, as well as interpersonal and group behavior in...
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Rangaraj Ramanujam On Addressing Errors In Organization
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Professor Ramanujam is a leading researcher and consultant on the organizational causes and consequences of operational failures in high-risk work settings. His current research examines the role...
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Steve Hoeffler On Radically New Products
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Professor Steve Hoeffler is an expert in consumer products marketing, brand management and consumer behavior. His research on such topics as positioning multiple category products, marketing...
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Financial Innovation Conference: Leo Melamed
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Melamed, Chairman Emeritus of the CME Group and the founder of the first futures market, delivered the keynote address at the first-ever Conference on Financial Innovation hosted by Owen
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Financial Innovation Conference: Robert Merton
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Merton, a 1997 Nobel laureate in Economics and co-author of two landmark financial studies speaks on the current tumult in the financial markets and the future of financial innovation.
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Richard Daft On Leadership
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
A noted expert in organization behavior and organization design, Professor Daft has published 12 books, dozens of papers, and presented at more than 45 universities around the world. His latest...
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David Owens On Strategic Innovation
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Professor Owens serves on the faculty at Owen in the area of organizational behavior. Specializing in strategic innovation and product development, Owens also delivers executive education programs...
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Jim Schorr On Corporate Social Responsibility
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Over the past 18 years, Professor Schorr has been an active force in developing the social enterprise movement in the U.S. and globally, and he has written and spoken widely on the use of business...
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Bruce Barry On The Intersection Of Business And Society
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Professor Barry's research and expertise cover social issues in management, including ethics, workplace rights, public policy, and new media, as well as interpersonal and group behavior in...
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Bruce Cooil On Managerial Statistics
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Professor Cooil has developed reliability estimators for qualitative data that are used widely in business and management, communication, applied psychology, psychometrics, health care and in the...
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Michael Burcham And David Furse On Thinking Like A CEO
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Michael Burcham has over 20 years of extensive experience in health care innovation, entrepreneurship, and startup venture coaching. He is currently serving as President and CEO of the Nashville...
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David Parsley On Big Macs And The World Economy
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Professor Parsley's current research focuses on exchange rates and the integration of goods and services markets, financial markets, and labor markets. He is also working on measuring the effects...
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Germain Böer On Entrepreneurship
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Since joining Owen in 1977, Professor Böer has initiated numerous entrepreneurship activities at Owen, including an annual entrepreneurship conference; student sessions with venture capitalists;...
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Jennifer Escalas On Brand Relationships
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Professor Escalas' research interests focus on consumer narrative processing - thinking in the form of stories - which can create meaning for brands and generate emotional responses to...
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Nick Bollen On The Study Of Hedge Funds
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Professor Bollen has had twelve research papers accepted for publication since joining the faculty of Owen in 2001, including eight in the top finance journals. Professor Bollen's current research...
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Paul Chaney On Accounting For Non-Financial Managers
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Since joining the Owen faculty in 1984, Paul Chaney has won three teaching awards as well as the Dean's Award for Excellence in Research in 2003. He has co-authored, with Debra Jeter, a textbook,...
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Controlling Your Inner Elephant
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Richard Daft, Brownlee O. Currey Professor of Management and an expert in leadership issues, discusses how he combined research in management, psychology, neuroscience and Eastern spirituality,...
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Middleware R&D Challenges for Distributed Real-Time and Embedded Systems
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Some of the most challenging problems facing the embedded systems community are those associated with producing software for real-time and embedded systems in which computer processors may control...
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A Modeling Environment for Patient Portals
August 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Clinical Information Systems (CIS) are complex environments that integrate information technologies, humans, and patient data. Given the sensitivity of patient data, federal regulations require...
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Model-Driven Configuration of Green Cloud Computing Auto-Scaling Infrastructure
October 31, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Cloud computing can reduce power consumption by using virtualized computational resources to provision an application's computational resources on-demand. Autoscaling is an important cloud...
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Marketing Fictions: Product Branding In American Literature And Culture, 1890-1915
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This dissertation is a study of the relationship between product branding and American literature and culture. Converse effects - branding's influence on the growth and development of the novel -...
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Running Head: The Creation And Maintenance Of Motivation In Organizational Change
January 14, 2009, 12:00am PST
According to Yukl (2006), the creation and maintenance of motivation is an essential part of the process to achieve an organizational transformation. Because of the difficulties and setbacks that...
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Leadership For Learning: A Research-Based Model And Taxonomy Of Behaviors
August 13, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors examine the components of leadership for learning employing research on highly productive schools and school districts and high performing principals and...
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Increasing Returns And Unsynchronized Wage Adjustment In Sunspot Models Of The Business Cycle
March 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
A challenge facing the literature of equilibrium indeterminacy and sunspot-driven business cycle fluctuations based on increasing returns to scale in production is that the required degree of...
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Optimal Rate Allocation in Peer-to-Peer Streaming Over Wireless Networks
March 15, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Integrating Peer-to-Peer streaming with wireless networks is a promising technique which promotes ubiquitous multimedia services. Rate allocation within this context is essential to the overall...
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Sum-Product Based Optimization for Scalable Video Streams in Peer-to-Peer Mesh Network
May 13, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Receiver heterogeneity of a P2P network can be effectively addressed by scalable video streams. Due to the discontinuous nature of scalable video, traditional convex-optimization approach is not...
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Locality-Awareness in BitTorrent-Like P2P Applications
September 30, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents the measurement study of locality-aware P2P solutions over real-world Internet AS topology. By using the accesses of nodes of PlanetLab testbed, the authors create a detailed...
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Passivity-Based Design Of Wireless Networked Control Systems Subject to Time-Varying Delays
March 18, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Real-life cyber-physical systems, such as automotive vehicles, building automation systems, and groups of unmanned vehicles are monitored and controlled by networked control systems. The overall...
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Model-Driven Auto-Scaling of Green Cloud Computing Infrastructure
November 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Cloud computing can reduce power consumption by using virtualized computational resources to provision an application's computational resources on-demand. Auto-scaling is an important cloud...
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Network-Calculus-Based Analysis of Power Management in Video Sensor Networks
August 10, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper considers two important issues for video sensor networks: timely delivery of captured video stream and energy-efficient network design. Based on network calculus, it presents a unified...
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Maximizing Throughput in Layered Peer-to-Peer Streaming
November 13, 2007, 12:00am PST
Layered streaming is an effective solution to address the receiver heterogeneity in Peer-To-Peer (P2P) multimedia distribution. This paper targets a fundamental challenge in this application,...
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A Measurement Study on AS-Aware P2P Streaming Strategies
May 19, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents a measurement study of AS-aware P2P streaming solution over real-world Internet topology. By using the accesses of nodes of PlanetLab testbed, the authors create a detailed...
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BitTube: Case Study of a Web-Based Peer-Assisted Video-on-Demand System
June 27, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Recent theoretical and simulation-based studies have confirmed the tremendous benefit of Peer-To-Peer (P2P) communication at reducing the cost of running a VoD service. To date, very limited...
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Minimizing Rate Distortion in Peer-to-Peer Video Streaming
October 10, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper addresses the problem of optimal rate allocation for video stream in peer-to-peer networks. The authors present a distributed rate allocation algorithm with the goal of minimizing the...
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Vanets: Case Study of a Peer-to-Peer Video Conferencing System
October 10, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) is a powerful platform for a variety of multimedia streaming applications over the Internet such as video-on-demand, video conferencing, live broadcasting, etc. A P2P system is...
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A Measurement Study on Video Acceleration Service
October 13, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Recent advancement in multimedia and network has enabled the development of video accelerator for video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips (e.g. YouTube) to achieve...
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Rate Distortion Optimization for Mesh-Based P2P Video Streaming
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper addresses the problem of optimal rate allocation for video streaming in a multi-path peer-to-peer mesh network. The authors present a distributed rate allocation algorithm that...
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On the Optimality of Layered Video Streaming Rate in a P2P Mesh Network
May 15, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Layered streaming is an effective solution to address receiver heterogeneity in a Peer-To-Peer (P2P) network. This paper addresses the problem of rate allocation for layered video stream in p2p...
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Predictive or Oblivious: A Comparative Study of Routing Strategies for Wireless Mesh Networks Under Uncertain Demand
April 4, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Traffic routing plays a critical role in determining the performance of a wireless mesh network. To investigate the best solution, existing work proposes to formulate the mesh network routing...
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Deployment Automation With BLITZ
December 5, 2008, 12:00am PST
Minimizing the computing infrastructure (such as processors) in a Distributed Real-time Embedded (DRE) system deployment helps reduce system size, weight, power consumption, and cost. To support...
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A Study of Software Architecture and Comparative Performance Analysis for an EJB-Based Flexible Enterprise Application Framework
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
The authors observe that the e-business systems development frameworks trade-off performance at the expense of flexibility. In this paper, they present a performance comparison of JavaBeans...
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Visual Novel Object Detection for Mobile Robots
May 6, 2008, 12:00am PDT
It is generally agreed that learning, either supervised or unsupervised, can provide the best possible representation of a known environment. However, to operate in a dynamic environment, a mobile...
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Application of Two Partial Search Methods to Euclidean Distance-Based Outlier Detection
May 18, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Search for nearest neighbors is the main source of computation in most distance-based outlier detection techniques. In order to decrease the execution time, the authors propose the use of two...
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Supporting Large-scale Continuous Stream Datacenters via Pub/Sub Middleware and Adaptive Transport Protocols
May 30, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Large-scale datacenters that handle continuous data streams require scalable and flexible communication infrastructure. The scalability of publish/subscribe (pub/sub) middleware coupled with...
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Optimizing Mobile Application Performance With Model-Driven Engineering
August 2, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Future embedded and ubiquitous computing systems will operate continuously on mobile devices, such as smartphones, with limited processing capabilities, memory, and power. A critical aspect of...
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Towards an Adaptive Deployment and Configuration Framework for Component-Based Distributed Systems
August 13, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Software frameworks that support the Deployment and Configuration (D&C) of large-scale component-based Distributed Real-time and Embedded (DRE) systems must often adapt their behavior at runtime...
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Minimum Disruption Service Composition and Recovery Over Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The dynamic nature of mobile ad hoc networks poses fundamental challenges to the design of service composition schemes that can minimize the effect of service disruptions. Although improving...
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Automated Model-Based Configuration of Enterprise Java Applications
August 3, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The decentralized process of configuring enterprise applications is complex and error-prone, involving multiple participants/roles and numerous configuration changes across multiple files,...
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CiCUTS: Combining System Execution Modeling Tools With Continuous Integration Environments
November 12, 2007, 12:00am PST
System Execution Modeling (SEM) tools provide an effective means to evaluate the Quality of Service (QoS) of enterprise Distributed Real-time and Embedded (DRE) systems. SEM tools facilitate...
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Physical Assembly Mapper: A Model-Driven Optimization Tool for QoS-Enabled Component Middleware
January 13, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper provides four contributions to the study of optimization techniques for component-based Distributed Real-time and Embedded (DRE) systems. First, the authors describe key challenges of...
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Toward Effective Multi-Capacity Resource Allocation in Distributed Real-Time and Embedded Systems
February 16, 2008, 12:00am PST
Open Distributed Real-time and Embedded (DRE) systems form the core of many mission-critical domains. These DRE systems execute in environments where system operational conditions, input workload,...
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Automated Configuration of Component-Based Distributed Real-Time and Embedded Systems From Feature Models
October 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Distributed Real-time and Embedded (DRE) systems are increasingly being built using component-based technologies. Component technologies facilitate software reuse across applications by allowing...
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Model-Driven Product-Line Architectures for Mobile Devices
September 26, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The large number of mobile device types and possible device configurations makes it possible to deliver mobile applications to user devices that are not fully compatible with device...
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DQML: A Modeling Language for Configuring Distributed Publish/Subscribe Quality of Service Policies
June 22, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Many publish/subscribe (pub/sub) middleware platforms provide flexibility in configuring policies that affect end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS). While the functionality and tunability of pub/sub...
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Intelligent Resource Management and Dynamic Adaptation in a Distributed Real-Time and Embedded Sensor Web System
October 23, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Sensor webs are often composed of servers connected to Distributed Real-time Embedded (DRE) systems that operate in open environments where operating conditions, workload, resource availability,...
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Unit Testing Non-Functional Concerns of Component-Based Distributed Systems
October 12, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Unit testing component-based distributed systems traditionally involved testing functional concerns of the application logic throughout the development lifecycle. In contrast, testing...
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Automating Hardware and Software Evolution Analysis
January 6, 2009, 12:00am PST
Cost-effective software evolution is critical to many Distributed Real-time and Embedded (DRE) systems. Selecting the lowest cost set of software components that meet DRE system resource...
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QoS Enabled Dissemination of Managed Information Objects in a Publish-Subscribe-Query Information Broker
February 17, 2009, 12:00am PST
Net-centric information spaces have become a necessary concept to support information exchange for tactical warfighting missions using a publish-subscribe-query paradigm. To support dynamic,...
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Automated Reasoning for Multi-Step Software Product-Line Configuration Problems
March 6, 2009, 12:00am PST
The increasing complexity and cost of software-intensive systems has led developers to seek ways of reusing software components across development projects. One approach to increasing software...
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Dynamic Policy-Driven Quality of Service in Service-Oriented Systems
December 11, 2009, 12:00am PST
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) middleware has emerged as a powerful and popular distributed computing paradigm due to its high-level abstractions for composing systems and hiding...
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Addressing Challenges With Augmented Reality Applications on Smartphones
April 20, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The popularity of smartphones equipped with GPS and geomagnetic sensors has spurred mobile application developer interest in Augmented Reality (AR), which presents highly contexualized, spatially...
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Adapting Distributed Real-Time and Embedded Pub/Sub Middleware for Cloud Computing Environments
August 16, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Enterprise Distributed Real-time and Embedded (DRE) publish/subscribe (pub/sub) systems manage resources and data that are vital to users. Cloud computing - where computing resources are...
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Analyzing Mobile Application Software Power Consumption Via Model-Driven Engineering
January 11, 2011, 12:00am PST
Recent advances in mobile device and smartphone technologies have greatly increased the capabilities of these devices. For instance, the Google Nexus One has a 1GHz processor and the Motorola...
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VU Professors Develop New Nasdaq Indexes That Guard Against Market Gyrations
November 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
New research by Vanderbilt finance professors Robert Whaley and Jacob Sagi has led to the creation of a recently launched group of Nasdaq indexes. The five Nasdaq OMX Alpha Indexes are designed to...
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