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Flow-Level Characteristics of Spam and Ham
August 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Despite a large amount of effort devoted in the past years trying to limit unsolicited mail, spam is still a major global concern. Content-analysis techniques and blacklists, the most popular...
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Federated Stream Processing Support for Real-Time Business Intelligence Applications
July 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper describes the MaxStream federated stream processing architecture to support real-time business intelligence applications. MaxStream builds on and extends the SAP MaxDB relational...
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Engineering the Cloud From Software Modules
February 19, 2009, 12:00am PST
Cloud computing faces many of the challenges and difficulties of distributed and parallel software. While the service interface hides the actual application from the remote user, the application...
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Network Architecture Testbeds as Platforms for Ubiquitous Computing
June 9, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Distributed Systems research, and in particular Ubiquitous Computing, has traditionally assumed the Internet as a basic underlying communications substrate. Recently, however, the Networking...
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WorldPeaks 1.2 (Mobile)
November 23, 2009, 12:00am PST
WorldPeaks is a light-weight augmented reality application for the iPhone 3GS, which provides users with information about mountains in sight. It can be used to identify mountains outdoors when...
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SwissPeaks 1.2 (Mobile)
November 23, 2009, 12:00am PST
SwissPeaks is a light-weight augmented reality application for the iPhone 3GS, which provides users with information about mountains in sight in Switzerland. It can be used to identify mountains...
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Meta-Debugging Pervasive Computers
May 14, 2010, 12:00am PDT
As computers get more complex, the task of programming them gets more complex as well. This is especially true for the "Pervasive Computer", which is a massively distributed system consisting of...
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ZConnectUK 1.0 (Mobile)
April 13, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The app for iPhone that makes it easy to record and report a claim ZConnect is brought to you by Zurich Connect and is a free app for iPhone that gives you everything you need to start a car...
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Considerations on the Interoperability of and Between Cloud Computing Standards
September 22, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Cloud computing has gaining importance in the recent past due to the conjunction of well-known key features, such as virtualization and pay-by-use, which together form an innovative concept. Even...
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XML Schema Editors: A Comparison of Visualizations
December 1, 2006, 12:00am PST
XML Schema is a complex language for defining schemas for classes of XML documents, and its inherent complexity as well as its XML transfer syntax makes it hard to read XML Schemas for humans....
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Prototypical Implementation of Location-Aware Services Based on a Middleware Architecture for Super-Distributed RFID Tag Infrastructures
June 21, 2006, 12:00am PDT
This paper provides evidence of the feasibility and effectiveness of a middleware architecture for mobile devices which employs dense distributions of small computerized entities for providing...
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A Java-Based Framework for Real-Time Control Systems
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper presents the Java version of the AOCS Framework. The AOCS Framework is an object-oriented software framework for real-time satellite control systems. It provides a set of design...
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Insurance And Stability The Reform Of Insurance Regulation
October 2, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Risk pooling provides customers with cost-effective protection against the financial consequences of various perils, which would otherwise have required them to accumulate large amounts of...
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secuBT: Hacking the Hackers With User-Space Virtualization
November 20, 2009, 12:00am PST
In the age of coordinated malware distribution and zero-day exploits security becomes ever more important. This paper presents secuBT, a safe execution framework for the execution of untrusted...
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Virtualizing Hardware With Multi-Context Recon Gurable Arrays
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
In contrast to processors, current reconfigurable devices totally lack programming models that would allow for device independent compilation and forward compatibility. The key to overcome this...
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Hardware Virtualization on a Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Processor
September 22, 2006, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors propose to use a reconfigurable processor as main computation element in embedded systems for applications from the multi-media and communications domain. A...
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Hardware-Supported Virtualization for the L4 Microkernel
September 29, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Despite the immense popularity virtual machines regained in the last years current virtualization environments force significant compromises to the host system architecture. Hypervisor-based...
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Performance Evaluation of the Collection Tree Protocol Based on Its Implementation for the Castalia Wireless Sensor Networks Simulator
August 31, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Many wireless sensor network applications rely on the availability of a collection service to route data packets towards a sink node. The service is typically accessed through well defined...
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Practical Time Synchronization for Bluetooth Scatternets
May 4, 2007, 12:00am PDT
By means of so-called Scatternets, Bluetooth provides the ability to construct robust wireless multi-hop networks. This paper proposes a practical protocol for time synchronization of such...
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A First Step Towards Integration Independence
December 9, 2009, 12:00am PST
Two major forms of information integration, federation and materialization, continue to dominate the market, embedded in separate products, each with their strengths and weaknesses. Application...
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Stream Schema: Providing and Exploiting Static Metadata for Data Stream Processing
July 20, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Schemas, and more generally metadata specifying structural and semantic constraints, are invaluable in data management. They facilitate conceptual design and enable checking of data consistency....
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Building a Database in the Cloud
August 21, 2009, 12:00am PDT
There has been a great deal of hype about cloud computing. Cloud computing promises infinite scalability and high availability at low cost. Currently, Amazon Web Services is the most popular suite...
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Rethinking Cost and Performance of Database Systems
December 9, 2008, 12:00am PST
Traditionally, database systems were optimized in the following way: "Given a set of machines, try to minimize the response time of each request." This paper argues that today, users would like a...
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A Dataspace Odyssey: The IMeMex Personal Dataspace Management System
December 8, 2006, 12:00am PST
A Personal Dataspace includes all data pertaining to a user on all his local disks and on remote servers such as network drives, email and web servers. This data is represented by a heterogeneous...
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OpenXL: An Adaptable Web-Service Middleware
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The inherent complexity of current software systems has reached a critical level. This affects the general deployment complexity in the form of a huge amount of varying Non-Functional Requirements...
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Probabilistic Multicast
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Gossip-based broadcast algorithms have been considered as a viable alternative to traditional deterministic reliable broadcast algorithms in large scale environments. However, these algorithms...
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Demo Abstract: Passive Inspection of Deployed Sensor Networks With SNIF
January 8, 2007, 12:00am PST
The authors demonstrate a tool that allows inspection and debugging of deployed Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) by analyzing overheard radio messages. This tool can identify common problems such as...
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Embedded Systems FS 2010
March 10, 2010, 12:00am PST
The BTnode is an autonomous wireless communication and computing platform based on a Bluetooth radio and a microcontroller. It serves as a demonstration platform for research in mobile and ad-hoc...
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Competition And Innovation: An Experimental Investigation
October 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The paper analyzes the effects of competitive intensity on firms' incentives to invest in process innovations through an experiment based on two-stage games, where R&D investment choices are...
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The Relation Between Competition And Innovation - Why Is It Such A Mess?
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Using a general two-stage framework, this paper gives sufficient conditions for increasing competition to have negative or positive effects on R&D-investment, respectively. Both possibilities...
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Competitive Markets Without Commitment
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In the presence of a time-inconsistency problem with optimal agency contracts, the authors show that competitive markets implement allocations that Pareto dominate those achieved by a benevolent...
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Renewable Energy Policy In The Presence Of Innovation: Does Government Pre-Commitment Matter?
July 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In a perfectly competitive market with a possibility of technological innovation the authors contrast guaranteed feed-in tariffs for electricity from renewable and tradable green certificates from...
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The Organizational Advantages Of Cooperatives: Knowledge Generation, Knowledge Acquisition, And Hold-Up Mitigation
November 5, 2009, 12:00am PST
Considering their practical importance, cooperatives are among the least re-searched forms of organization found in the literature. In this paper, the authors develop a model to compare markets,...
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What Difference Do Beliefs Make? Gender Job Associations And Work Climate
September 29, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper investigates how women and men value their work climate if performing jobs with stereotypical male or female tasks. Using a special variable from a big data set the authors are able to...
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The Effects Of Bonus Taxes On Executive Compensation
December 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The financial crisis from 2007-2010 was the worst crisis since the Great Depression. Politicians, economists and regulators search for measures to avoid such a crisis to repeat. One prominent...
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Innovation, Competition And Incentives For R&D
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Exploring the links between the type of innovation and the type of competition is essential to understand the mutual impacts of competition policy and innovation policy. This is of particular...
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What Determines The Innovation Capability Of Firm Founders?
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Innovative start-ups, not start-ups in general, seem to be important drivers of economic growth. However, little is known about how such firms look like. As activities of start-ups are strongly...
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Insights Into The Determinants Of Innovation In Energy Efficiency
September 13, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Given the increasing interest in understanding (and supporting by means of public policy) innovative activity related to Energy Efficient Technology (EET), the author attempt to identify...
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Implications of Radio Fingerprinting on the Security of Sensor Networks
June 8, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The authors demonstrate the feasibility of finger-printing the radio of wireless sensor nodes (Chipcon 1000 radio, 433MHz). The authors show that, with this type of devices, a receiver can create...
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Understanding Radio Irregularity in Wireless Networks
March 25, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In an effort to better understand connectivity and capacity in wireless networks, the log-normal shadowing radio propagation model is used to capture radio irregularities and obstacles in the...
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Comparing State Spaces in Automatic Security Protocol Verification
October 23, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Many tools exist for automatic security protocol verification, and most of them have their own particular language for specifying protocols and properties. Several protocol specification models...
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Comparing State Spaces in Automatic Security Protocol Analysis
February 12, 2009, 12:00am PST
There are several automatic tools available for the symbolic analysis of security protocols. The models underlying these tools differ in many aspects. Some of the differences have already been...
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Session-State Reveal Is Stronger Than Ephemeral Key Reveal: Attacking the NAXOS Authenticated Key Exchange Protocol
March 16, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In the paper "Stronger Security of Authenticated Key Exchange", a new security model for authenticated key exchange protocols (eCK) is proposed. The new model is suggested to be at least as strong...
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Degrees of Security: Protocol Guarantees in the Face of Compromising Adversaries
June 30, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors present a symbolic framework, based on a modular operational semantics, for formalizing different notions of compromise relevant for the analysis of cryptographic protocols. The...
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Provably Repairing the ISO/IEC 9798 Standard for Entity Authentication
January 5, 2012, 12:00am PST
The authors formally analyze the family of entity authentication proto-cols defined by the ISO/IEC 9798 standard and find numerous weaknesses, both old and new, including some that violate even...
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Automated Analysis of Diffie-Hellman Protocols and Advanced Security Properties
April 24, 2012, 12:00am PDT
The authors present a general approach for the symbolic analysis of security protocols that use Diffie-Hellman exponentiation to achieve advanced security properties. They model protocols as...
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Group Distance Bounding Protocols
April 11, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Distance Bounding (DB) protocols allow one entity, the verifier, to securely obtain an upper-bound on the distance to another entity, the prover. Thus far, DB was considered mostly in the context...
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Characterization of Random Linear Network Coding With Application to Broadcast Optimization in Intermittently Connected Networks
April 18, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors address the problem of optimizing the throughput of network coded traffic in mobile networks operating in challenging environments where connectivity is intermittent and locally...
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Satisfying Test Preconditions Through Guided Object Selection
October 9, 2009, 12:00am PDT
A random testing strategy can be effective at finding faults, but may leave some routines entirely untested if it never gets to call them on objects satisfying their preconditions. This limitation...
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Reasoning About Multiple Related Abstractions With MultiStar
March 25, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Encapsulated abstractions are fundamental in object-oriented programming. A single class may employ multiple abstractions to achieve its purpose. Such abstractions are often related and combined...
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A Modular Scheme for Deadlock Prevention in an Object-Oriented Programming Model
August 16, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Despite the advancements of concurrency theory in the past decades, practical concurrent programming has remained a challenging activity. Fundamental problems such as data races and deadlocks...
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Evotec: Evolving the Best Testing Strategy for Contract-Equipped Programs
July 15, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Automated random testing is effective at detecting faults but it is certainly not an optimal testing strategy for every given program. For example, an automated random testing tool ignores that...
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How Do Distribution and Time Zones Affect Software Development? a Case Study on Communication
May 6, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Software projects have crossed seas and continents looking for talented developers, moving from local developments to geographically distributed projects. This paper presents a case study...
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A Comprehensive Operational Semantics of the SCOOP Programming Model
April 13, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Operational semantics is a flexible, but rigorous means to describe the meaning of programming languages. Small semantics are often preferred, for example to facilitate model checking. However,...
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Verifying Implementations of Security Protocols by Refinement
November 18, 2011, 12:00am PST
The authors propose a technique for verifying high-level security properties of cryptographic protocol implementations based on stepwise refinement. Their refinement strategy supports reasoning...
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A Metamodel-Based Approach for Analyzing Security-Design Models
April 3, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The authors have previously proposed an expressive UML-based language for constructing and transforming security-design models, which are models that combine design specifications for distributed...
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Empirical Assessment of Languages for Teaching Concurrency: Methodology and Application
March 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Concurrency has been rapidly gaining importance in computing, and correspondingly in computing curricula. Concurrent programming is, however, notoriously hard even for expert programmers. New...
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Design of an Empirical Study for Comparing the Usability of Concurrent Programming Languages
July 11, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The recent turn towards multi-core processing architectures has made concurrency an important part of mainstream software development. As a result, an increasing number of developers have to learn...
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Experience With Model-Based Performance, Reliability and Adaptability Assessment of a Complex Industrial Architecture
January 24, 2012, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors report on their experience with the application of validated models to assess performance, reliability, and adaptability of a complex mission critical system that is...
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In Search of an Internet of Things Service Architecture: REST or WS- a Developers' Perspective
November 21, 2011, 12:00am PST
Current trends inspired from the development of the Web 2.0 advocate designing smart things (e.g., wireless sensors nodes or home appliances) as service platforms. Interoperable services are...
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Compiler-Assisted Thread Abstractions for Resource-Constrained Systems
December 24, 2011, 12:00am PST
Major operating systems for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) enforce an event-based programming paradigm for efficiency reasons. However, practice has shown that the resulting code complexity leads...
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Moving Application Logic From the Firmware to the Cloud: Towards the Thin Server Architecture for the Internet of Things
March 22, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Unlike traditional networked embedded systems, the Internet of Things interconnects heterogeneous devices from various manufacturers with diverse functionalities. To foster the emergence of novel...
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Opportunistic Sensing for Efficient Energy Usage in Private Households
December 12, 2011, 12:00am PST
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) recently became to be seen as an instrument with huge potential to improve energy efficiency in several sectors. For instance, recent studies have...
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Monitoring Usage-Control Policies in Distributed Systems
June 12, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors have previously presented a monitoring algorithm for compliance checking of policies formalized in an expressive metric first-order temporal logic. They explain here the steps required...
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Model-Driven Development of Security-Aware GUIs for Data-Centric Application
September 6, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors survey a very promising instance of model-driven security: the full generation of security-aware Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) from models for data-centric...
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The Minimum Transfer Cost Principle for Model-Order Selection
June 10, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The goal of model-order selection is to select a model variant that generalizes best from training data to unseen test data. In unsupervised learning without any labels, the computation of the...
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Key Exchange in IPsec Revisited: Formal Analysis of IKEv1 and IKEv2
June 17, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The IPsec standard aims to provide application-transparent end-to-end security for the Internet Protocol. The security properties of IPsec critically depend on the underlying key exchange...
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FAST: An Efficient Decision Procedure for Deduction and Static Equivalence
April 20, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Message deducibility and static equivalence are central problems in symbolic security protocol analysis. The authors present FAST, an efficient decision procedure for these problems under subterm...
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Constructing Mid-Points for Two-Party Asynchronous Protocols
December 20, 2011, 12:00am PST
Communication protocols describe the steps that the communication end-points must take in order to achieve a common goal. In practice, networks often contain mid-points, which can relay, redirect,...
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Formal Reasoning About Physical Properties of Security Protocols
September 22, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Traditional security protocols are mainly concerned with authentication and key establishment and rely on predistributed keys and properties of cryptographic operators. In contrast, new...
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Security Protocols
September 22, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Traditional security protocols are mainly concerned with authentication and key establishment and rely on predistributed keys and properties of cryptographic operators. In contrast, new...
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SNIF: Sensor Network Inspection Framework
October 10, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Recent experience with the deployment of sensor networks demonstrates that it is far from trivial to setup a working larger-scale sensor network in the field. Even though simulations and...
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Investigating the Potential of Custom Instruction Set Extensions for SHA-3 Candidates on a 16-Bit Microcontroller Architecture
February 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors investigate the benefit of instruction set extensions for software implementations of all five SHA-3 candidates. To this end, they start from optimized assembly code for...
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Hummingbird: Privacy at the Time of Twitter
March 5, 2010, 12:00am PST
In the last several years, micro-blogging Online Social Networks (OSNs), such as Twitter, have taken the world by storm, now boasting over 100 million subscribers. As an unparalleled stage for an...
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Optimal Temporal Partitioning Based on Slowdown and Retiming
August 31, 2006, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents a novel method for optimal temporal partitioning of sequential circuits for time-multiplexed reconfigurable architectures. The method bases on slowdown and re-timing and...
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Rupeas: Ruby Powered Event Analysis DSL
April 22, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are unique embedded computer systems for distributed sensing of a dispersed phenomenon. As WSNs are deployed in remote locations for long-term unattended operation,...
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Reconfigurable Nodes for Future Networks
January 27, 2011, 12:00am PST
Future network architectures aim at solving the shortcomings of the traditional, static Internet architecture. In order to provide optimal service they have to adapt their functionality to...
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X-SENSE: Sensing in Extreme Environments
December 16, 2010, 12:00am PST
The field of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is now in a stage where serious applications of societal and economical importance are in reach. For example, it is well-known that the global climate...
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Development and Test With the Deployment-Support Network
December 15, 2006, 12:00am PST
The Deployment-Support Network (DSN) is a new, minimal invasive methodology for developing and testing Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) in a realistic environment. A device under test, e.g. a target...
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Increasing the Reliability of Wireless Sensor Networks With a Unit Testing Framework
March 13, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Designing Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) has proven to be a slow, tedious and error-prone process due to the inherent intricacies of designing a distributed, wireless, and embedded system....
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