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Towards a Security Management Reference Model for Vertical and Horizontal Collaborative Clouds
July 11, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The re-perimeterization and the erosion of trust boundaries already happening in organizations is amplified and accelerated by Cloud Computing. Security controls in Cloud Computing are, for the...
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Firewire Blocker: A Software Defense Against Firewire-Based Physical Security Attacks on Windows Systems
August 13, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents a software solution to Firewire-based physical security attacks on Microsoft Windows operating systems. In this first proof-of-concept, the FirewireBlocker service is running...
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Data Recovery From Distributed Personal Repositories
June 15, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents an approach to personal disaster recovery, e.g. after a hard-disk crash, based not on an explicitly ex-ante defined recovery plan with a rigid backup regime, but rather on...
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Automatically Generating Models for Botnet Detection
June 30, 2009, 12:00am PDT
A botnet is a network of compromised hosts that is under the control of a single, malicious entity, often called the botmaster. This paper presents a system that aims to detect bots, independent...
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Towards a Meta-Negotiation Architecture for SLA-Aware Grid Services
November 20, 2008, 12:00am PST
In novel market-oriented resource sharing models resource consumers pay for the resource usage and expect that non-functional requirements for the application execution, termed as Quality of...
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Advanced QoS Methods for Grid Workflows Based on Meta-Negotiations and SLA-Mappings
November 5, 2008, 12:00am PST
In novel market-oriented resource sharing models, resource consumers pay for the resource usage and expect that non-functional requirements for the application execution, termed as Quality of...
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Measurement Based Throughput Evaluation of Residual Frequency Offset Compensation in WiMAX
September 30, 2009, 12:00am PDT
WiMAX utilizes a physical-layer based on OFDM that is very sensitive to carrier frequency offset. Even though most of this offset can be compensated using the initial training sequence, there...
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Throughput and Capacity of MIMO WiMAX
November 4, 2009, 12:00am PST
The work in this paper presents physical layer throughput measurement results of a WiMAX link implemented according to IEEE 802.16-2004. The measurements were carried out in an alpine and an urban...
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Efficient Detection of Split Personalities in Malware
December 19, 2009, 12:00am PST
Malware is the root cause of many security threats on the Internet. To cope with the thousands of new malware samples that are discovered every day, security companies and analysts rely on...
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Scalable, Behavior-Based Malware Clustering
December 13, 2008, 12:00am PST
Anti-malware companies receive thousands of malware samples every day. To process this large quantity, a number of automated analysis tools were developed. These tools execute a malicious program...
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It's Time to Bring Word Processing Out of the Dark Ages: A Position Paper
November 24, 2007, 12:00am PST
This paper presents a view that word processing (and document authoring in general) today is very inefficient, and that this problem is mainly due to inadequately designed software whose approach...
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Architecture for Object-Oriented Programming Languages
September 28, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Object Oriented Programming (OOP) is a program paradigm that uses objects-data structures consisting of data files and methods together with their interactions to design applications and computer...
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Catching the Ouroboros: On Debugging Non-Ground Answer-Set Programs
March 20, 2010, 12:00am PDT
An important issue towards a broader acceptance of Answer-Set Programming (ASP) is the deployment of tools which support the programmer during the coding phase. In particular, methods for...
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Abstract and Concrete Syntax Migration of Instance Models
July 26, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents a solution for the TTC 2010 model migration case study. Firstly, the paper presents a modular approach to migrate the instance models' abstract syntax. Secondly, the problem of...
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An Integrated View on Monitoring and Compensation for Dynamic Optical Networks: From Management to Physical Layer
December 10, 2008, 12:00am PST
A vertical perspective, ranging from management and routing to physical layer options, concerning dynamic network Monitoring and Compensation of impairments (M&C), is given. Feasibility,...
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End-to-End Versioning Support For Web Services
April 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Software services are, just like any other software system, subject to permanent change. The authors argue that these changes should generally be transparent to service consumers. However,...
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Applied Information Security for M-Commerce and Digital Television Environments
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
With the emergence of convergent information devices capable of delivering multimedia content and providing a network communication independent of location, new challenges regarding the creation...
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Compliant Cloud Computing (C3): Architecture and Language Support for User-Driven Compliance Management in Clouds
May 6, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Cloud computing represents a promising computing paradigm, where computational power is provided similar to utilities like water, electricity or gas. While most of the Cloud providers can...
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Effects of Adaptive Wormhole Routing in Event Builder Networks
May 11, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The data acquisition system of the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider features a two-stage event builder, which combines data from about 500 sources into full events at an aggregate...
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UDP for Real-Time Linux
December 24, 2007, 12:00am PST
This work describes the integration of the hard real-time UDP/IP stack rtludp-0.1.1 into the Realtime Ethernet Device Driver (REDD) of the free real-time Linux distribution RTLinux/GPL. The...
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Towards Sustainable Decision-Support System Facilitating EBM
March 30, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Due to the immense volumes of medical data, the architecture of the future healthcare decision support systems focus more on interoperability than on integration. With the raising need for the...
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A Java Processor Architecture for Embedded Real-Time Systems
June 12, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Architectural advancements in modern processor designs increase average performance with features such as pipelines, caches, branch prediction, and out-of-order execution. However, these features...
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Interrupt Handlers in Java
February 15, 2008, 12:00am PST
An important part of implementing device drivers is to control the interrupt facilities of the hardware platform and to program interrupt handlers. Current methods for handling interrupts in Java...
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Integrated Pricing And Inventory Control With Reference Price Effects
July 25, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In this paper the authors study a joint pricing and inventory control model with backlogging for single items under reference price effects. The reference price effect models the empirically well...
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Service-Oriented Architecture Design Aspects of OPC UA for Industrial Applications
September 20, 2009, 12:00am PDT
OPC Unified Architecture is the most recent OPC specification from the OPC Foundation and differs significantly from its predecessors. The OPC Foundation's main goals with this development was to...
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The Great Recession Versus The Great Depression: Stylized Facts On Siblings That Were Given Different Foster Parents
February 15, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper compares the depth of the Recent Crisis and the Great Depression. The authors use a new data set to compare the drop in activity in the industrialized countries for seven activity...
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Establishing Context of Digital Objects' Creation, Content and Usage
June 19, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The context of objects is essential for the interpretation of information entities, for establishing their authenticity as well as ensuring appropriate use. Thus, documenting the context of...
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A Comparison of Open Source ERP Systems
June 1, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Flexible Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems allow unique, adaptable processes that support diversification strategy, where IT is a source for differentiation from competitors. The...
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Business Metadata For The Data Warehouse
August 18, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Enterprise organizations use Data WareHouses (DWHs) to analyze their performance. Performance is judged regarding the achievement of goals. DWH data models are well established. There exist...
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Designing Flexible GUI to Increase the Acceptance Rate of Product Data Management Systems in Industry
February 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Product Data Management (PDM) desktop and web based systems maintain the organizational technical and managerial data to increase the quality of products by improving the processes of development,...
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Integration of Flexible Web Based GUI in I-SOAS
September 6, 2010, 12:00am PDT
It is necessary to improve the concepts of the present web based graphical user interface for the development of more flexible and intelligent interface to provide ease and increase the level of...
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Wrapping Legacy Software for Reuse in a SOA
December 6, 2005, 12:00am PST
Legacy programs, i.e. programs which have been developed with an outdated technology make-up for the vast majority of programs in many user application environments. It is these programs which...
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Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Vs. Component Based Architecture
February 13, 2006, 12:00am PST
SOA is a buzzword and topic for many discussions in nearly every professional journal and conference. Opinions differ from "Some technical rubbish" to "The technology of the future". The problem...
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Information Retrieval in the Semantic-LIFE Personal Digital Memory Framework
June 9, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Ever increasing capacities of contemporary storage devices inspire the vision to accumulate (personal) information without the need of deleting old data over a long time-span. Hence the target of...
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Trusted Interaction Patterns in Large-scale Enterprise Service Networks
October 23, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The evolution towards cross-organizational collaboration and interaction patterns has led to the emergence of scalable, Web services-based composition infrastructures. The success of...
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Service-Centric Inference and Utilization of Confidence on Context
October 22, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The inadequate quality of context forces the context consumers in pervasive environments to reason about the quality and relevance of context to be confident of its worth to perform their...
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On Evaluating and Publishing Data Concerns for Data as a Service
September 28, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The proliferation of Data as a Service (DaaS) available on the Internet and offered by cloud service providers indicates an increasing trend in providing data under Web services in e-science and...
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End-To-End Support for QoS-Aware Service Selection, Invocation and Mediation in VRESCo
May 26, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Service-oriented Computing has recently received a lot of attention from both academia and industry. However, current service oriented solutions are often not as dynamic and adaptable as intended...
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Cost-Based Optimization of Service Compositions
February 15, 2011, 12:00am PST
For providers of composite services preventing cases of SLA violations is crucial. Previous work has established runtime adaptation of compositions as a promising tool to achieve SLA conformance....
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Context Coupling Techniques for Context-Aware Web Service Systems - An Overview
November 28, 2009, 12:00am PST
Distributed services in a context-aware Web service system or in a service composition need to couple context information from different sources in order to be able to interpret context...
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Position Paper: m2n-A Tool for Translating Models to Natural Language Descriptions
June 10, 2011, 12:00am PDT
To describe the structure of a system, the UML Class Diagram yields the means-of-choice. Therefore, the Class Diagram provides concepts like class, attribute, operation, association,...
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Domain-Specific Languages in a Finite Domain Constraint Programming System
August 30, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors present Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) that they devised for their use in the implementation of a finite domain constraint programming system, available as library...
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A Practical Attack to De-Anonymize Social Network Users
May 5, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Social networking sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Xing have been reporting exponential growth rates and have millions of registered users. In this paper, the authors introduce a novel...
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Extending Mondrian Memory Protection
November 9, 2010, 12:00am PST
Most modern operating systems implement some sort of memory protection scheme for user processes. These schemes make it is possible to set access permissions that determine whether a region of...
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WSN Implementation of the Average Consensus Algorithm
April 29, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper is motivated by the lack of distributed algorithm implementations on Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) in hardware. The authors deal exemplary with the implementation of the well-known...
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A Comparison of Rule Inheritance in Model-to-Model Transformation Languages
February 11, 2011, 12:00am PST
Although model transformations presumably play a major role in Model-Driven Engineering, reuse mechanisms such as inheritance have received little attention so far. In this paper, the authors...
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Information Security Automation: How Far Can We Go?
August 23, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Information security management is a very complex task which involves the implementation and monitoring of more than 130 security controls. To achieve greater efficiency in this process it is...
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RTTM: Real-Time Transactional Memory
February 26, 2010, 12:00am PST
Hardware transactional memory is a promising synchronization technology for chip-multiprocessors. It simplifies programming of concurrent applications and allows for higher concurrency than lock...
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A Semi-Automatic Approach for Bridging DSLs With UML
October 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The definition of modeling languages is a key-prerequisite for Model-Driven Engineering (MDE). In this respect, Domain-Specific Languages (DSL) defined in terms of metamodels and UML profiles are...
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Automating the Detection of Complex Semantic Conflicts Between Software Requirements
May 10, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Keeping requirements consistent already at early project stages is a main success factor for software development projects. However, manual requirements conflict analysis takes significant effort...
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Value-Based Selection of Requirements Engineering Tool Support
July 27, 2006, 12:00am PDT
In large software and systems engineering companies like Siemens PSE there are several requirements tools in use. There is no "One tool fits all projects/departments" solution for requirements...
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On the Suitability of Modeling Approaches for Engineering Distributed Control Systems
June 10, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Modern complex and flexible manufacturing systems require new types of control system architectures and design methodologies. An essential new applied architectural approach is the distributed...
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Using Explicit and Machine-Understandable Engineering Knowledge for Defect Detection in Automation Systems Engineering
August 3, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Today the costs of a failure in operation of huge industrial complexes are very high. Traditional approaches for defect detection in automation systems engineering in principle work, but generally...
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SemTrace: Semantic Requirements Tracing Using Explicit Requirement Knowledge
July 10, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In the Software Engineering (SE) domain the EU challenge on semantic systems and services motivates better support of knowledge creation as well as better access of SE stakeholders to the...
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Lets's Play the Token Game - Model Transformations Powered by Transformation Nets
June 22, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) is a software engineering paradigm using abstract models to describe systems which are then systematically transformed to concrete implementations. Since model...
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Improving Conflict Resolution in Model Versioning Systems
February 11, 2009, 12:00am PST
Collaborative software development is nowadays inconceivable without optimistic Version Control Systems (VCSs). Without such systems the parallel modification of one artifact by multiple users is...
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Towards an Architectural Framework for Agile Software Development
April 29, 2010, 12:00am PDT
One of the ideas of agile software development is to respond to changes rather than following a plan. Constantly changing businesses result in changing requirements, to be handled in the...
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A Project Monitoring Cockpit Based on Integrating Data Sources in Open Source Software Development
May 10, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Many Open Source Software (OSS) development projects use tools and models that come from heterogeneous sources. A project manager, who wants to analyze indicators for the state of the project...
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A Controlled Experiment on Team Meeting Style in Software Architecture Evaluation
February 22, 2010, 12:00am PST
Software architecture change can have a major impact on product and project quality. Software architecture evaluation systematically investigates architecture variants with respect to their...
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Evaluating Tools That Support Pair Programming in a Distributed Engineering Environment
February 22, 2010, 12:00am PST
The construction and improvement of high-quality products in a global software development environment requires flexible practices for collaboration and tools that support these practices in a...
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Engineering Project Management Using the Engineering Cockpit
May 30, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Automation Systems Engineering projects typically depend on contributions from several engineering disciplines. While available software tools are strong in supporting each individual engineering...
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Code Obfuscation Against Static and Dynamic Reverse Engineering
June 30, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The process of reverse engineering allows attackers to understand the behavior of software and extract proprietary algorithms and data structures (e.g. cryptographic keys) from it. Code...
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Defect Detection Using Event-Based Process Analysis in (Software+) Engineering Projects
June 22, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Modern software-based systems, like industrial automation systems typically involve the cooperation of several engineering fields, e.g., mechanical, electrical, and software engineering. The...
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Semantic Tool Interoperability for Engineering Manufacturing Systems
November 17, 2010, 12:00am PST
Manufacturing systems engineering projects depend on contributions from several engineering disciplines. These contributions consist of complex artifacts like mechanical, electrical, and software...
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Automated Derivation of Configurations for the Integration of Software(+) Engineering Environments
November 3, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Today's systems integration technologies enable the integration of (software+) engineering environments to support engineering processes across domain and tool boundaries. These engineering...
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Foundations for Event-Based Process Analysis in Heterogeneous Software Engineering Environments
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
For monitoring, controlling, and improving software development projects, project and quality managers need tool support to analyze engineering processes within development environments....
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Integrating Value and Utility Concepts Into a Value Decomposition Model for Value-Based Software Engineering
June 16, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Value-Based Software Engineering (VBSE) is an emerging stream of research that addresses the value considerations of software and extends the traditional scope of software engineering from...
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Observability of Software Engineering Processes in Open Source Software Projects Domain
July 20, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Open Source Software (OSS) projects as a complex software engineering system is an ideal domain for empirical software engineering, because it provides a lot of data and possibility to introduce...
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Flexible Support for Adaptable Software and Systems Engineering Processes
May 10, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Typical complex software and systems engineering projects involve a set of different engineering disciplines and therefore heavily rely on systems integration approaches. Service-oriented...
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Flexible Engineering Environment Integration for (Software+) Engineering Teams
September 22, 2010, 12:00am PDT
For the development of complex software-based systems multi-disciplinary engineering teams have to cooperate. While there are elaborate software tools for each engineering discipline, there is...
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Cost-Efficient Utilization of Public SLA Templates in Autonomic Cloud Markets
September 14, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Dynamic and self-adaptable markets are fundamental for the successful implementation of the Cloud computing paradigm where computing resources are provided on demand and dynamically to the...
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Towards Self-Awareness in Cloud Markets: A Monitoring Methodology
October 6, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Currently, the Cloud landscape is a fragmented, static and shapeless market that hinders the paradigm's ability to fulfill its promise of ubiquitous computing on tap and as a commodity. In this...
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Towards Autonomic Market Management in Cloud Computing Infrastructures
September 2, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Cloud computing markets face challenges, such as a large variety of different resource types in the market. A large variety of resource types results in a low number of matches of ask and bids....
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Cloud-Based Sustainability Governance - State of the Art and Open Issues
June 22, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Sustainability governance for resource consumption by humans, such as carbon footprint and electricity consumption in facilities, is a complex issue that requires extensible platforms to manage...
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Leaders, Followers, And Risk Dynamics In Industry Equilibrium
February 15, 2009, 12:00am PST
The authors study own and rival risk in a dynamic duopoly with a homogeneous output good, stochastic industry demand, and real options to expand or contract capacity. They focus on asymmetric cost...
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Legal Corporate Insider Trading And The Price Impact Of Private Information
May 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines the information value of corporate insider trading disclosures for a sample of 2,108 public traded companies located in seven (continental) European countries. Their results...
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Towards a Security Management Reference Model for Vertical and Horizontal Collaborative Clouds
July 11, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The re-perimeterization and the erosion of trust boundaries already happening in organizations is amplified and accelerated by Cloud Computing. Security controls in Cloud Computing are, for the...
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A Tool for Advanced Correspondence Checking in Answer-Set Programming: Preliminary Experimental Results
June 18, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The class of non-monotonic logic programs under the answer-set semantics, with which the authors are dealing with in this paper, represents the canonical and, due to the availability of efficient...
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A Tool for Advanced Correspondence Checking in Answer-Set Programming
June 18, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In previous work, a general framework for specifying correspondences between logic programs under the answer-set semantics has been defined. The framework allows to define different notions of...
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spock - Detecting Errors in Logic Programs Under the Answer-Set Semantics: System Description
January 29, 2008, 12:00am PST
Answer-Set Programming (ASP) is an emerging logic-programming paradigm, which strictly separates the description of a problem from its solutions. Despite its semantic elegance, ASP suffers from a...
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