community News and Other Resources

White Papers

The Anti-Social Tagger - Detecting Spam in Social Bookmarking Systems

April 22, 2008 12:00am PDT

The annotation of web sites in social bookmarking systems has become a popular way to manage and find information on the web. The community structure of such systems attracts spammers: recent post...

Provided by: Universitat Kassel

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Robust Runtime Optimization of Data Transfer in Queries Over Web Services

April 22, 2008 12:00am PDT

Self-managing solutions have recently attracted a lot of interest from the database community. The need for self-properties is more evident in distributed applications comprising heterogeneous and...

Provided by: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Downloads

ThumbMeUp for FireFox 1.0 (Windows)

April 21, 2008 12:00am PDT

ThumbMeUp is social and searching utility, build with support of community that connects you with like-minded people and helps you discover, promote and share great websites, photos, clips, blogs...

Provided by: ThumbMeUp

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Alcatel-Lucent's Video-Enhanced Learning Solution for Higher Education

April 20, 2008 12:00am PDT

The business of running a college or university is a competitive one. Remaining a viable member of the academic community means constantly evolving to be on the cutting edge of research and...

Provided by: Alcatel-Lucent

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Alcatel-Lucent's K-12 Video-Enhanced Learning Solution

April 20, 2008 12:00am PDT

Operating a school district is a challenging business. Remaining a viable member of the academic community means constantly evolving to attract and support teachers, reach students, and support...

Provided by: Alcatel-Lucent

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NOAA Coastal Sites: An N-Tiered Service-Oriented Approach Towards Visualization of Meteorology and Water Levels Data

April 20, 2008 12:00am PDT

The VisPort application adopts a service-oriented architecture to encapsulate visualization functionality that supports remote access. Data sets are typically large and multi-dimensional and made...

Provided by: Indiana University

Whitepapers

Automatic System for Filtering Obscene Video

April 20, 2008 12:00am PDT

This paper proposes an automatic system for filtering obscene video sequences. At present, an enormous number of video files are available on the various channels such as P2P networks, spam...

Provided by: Sejong University

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Heterogeneous Wireless Access in Large Mesh Networks

April 19, 2008 12:00am PDT

Wi-Fi-based mesh networks have been considered as a viable option to provide wireless coverage for a vast area, such as community-wide or city-wide. However, interference due to multihop...

Provided by: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Case Studies

Lakeridge Health Uses Trend Micro Messaging and Web Security for Comprehensive Gateway Web Threat Protection

April 18, 2008 12:00am PDT

Lakeridge Health (LH) serves a community of more than 500,000 residents within an area of 19,000 square kilometers in Ontario. When web threats began to increase, LH's user help desk was flooded...

Provided by: Trend Micro

Whitepapers

Load Sharing Based on PSO Algorithm for Isolated Distributed Stream Servers

April 18, 2008 12:00am PDT

Isolated Distributed Stream Servers (IDSS) is the main form of Video-On-Demand (VOD) service architecture in industrial community nowadays. Contrast to the previous work on load sharing in...

Provided by: Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers

Whitepapers

Performance Analysis of IEEE802.11 Wireless Mesh Networks

April 18, 2008 12:00am PDT

The wireless mesh network is emerging as a promising technology in providing economical and scalable broadband Internet accesses to communities. The backbone of the wireless mesh network consists...

Provided by: Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers

Whitepapers

Analysis of Uplink Traffic Characteristics and Impact on Performance in Mobile Data Networks

April 18, 2008 12:00am PDT

User-Generated Content (UGC) also known as User-Created Content (UCC) refers to various kinds of media contents that are produced by end users. A recent trend in the use of the Internet exhibits...

Provided by: Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers

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To Automate or Not to Automate: On the Complexity of Network Configuration

April 18, 2008 12:00am PDT

Configuring a network is a low-level, device-specific task. Many have compared it to writing a distributed program in assembly language, reserved only for highly experienced network operators....

Provided by: Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers

Whitepapers

Handover Latency Analysis of a Network-Based Localized Mobility Management Protocol

April 18, 2008 12:00am PDT

Recently, the IETF NETLMM working group is standardizing a NETwork-based Localized Mobility Management (NETLMM) protocol called Proxy Mobile IPv6 (PMIPv6), yet the research on NETLMM is still in...

Provided by: Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers

Downloads

KMaps 1.7.0 (Mobile)

April 18, 2008 12:00am PDT

KMaps allows users to get maps and directions, find local businesses, post and search user profiles and create their own location aware content to share with the community.In addition, KMaps...

Provided by: uLocate.com

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Financial Intermediation In Muslim Community: Issues And Problems

April 17, 2008 12:00am PDT

It is widely known that Muslim society inherited an interest based financial intermediation system from others instead of developing their own banking system. However, Muslim Economists and...

Provided by: Munich Personal Repec Archive

Webcasts

Reframing The Photo Market

April 16, 2008 12:00am PDT

Jeff Housenbold recalls that he was spending nearly two thousand dollars a year on Shutterfly.com before he came on as CEO. His personal experience - a family of growing memories to record -...

Provided by: Stanford University

Webcasts

Intersection Of Community And Commerce

April 16, 2008 12:00am PDT

Jeff Housenbold, CEO of Shutterfly, recalls how he learned that merging community with commerce was the winning ticket in business online. He recounts his days at Raging Bull, an upstart financial...

Provided by: Stanford University

Downloads

Risky Business SOS 2008.041 (Windows)

April 16, 2008 12:00am PDT

Risky Business SOS is a software program designed to simplify and guide a company through the task of documenting their Safe Operating Procedures (SOPs). Every organization has a strict legal...

Provided by: MacSOS Solutions