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Whitepapers
Just-in-Time Data Integration in Action
Sep 2010
Today's data integration systems must be flexible enough to support the typical iterative and incremental process of integration, and may need to scale to hundreds of data sources. In this work...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Cyber-Fraud Is One Typo Away
Jan 2008
Spelling errors when typing a URL can be exploited by website-squatters: users are led to phony sites in a phenomenon the authors call parasitic URL naming. These phony sites imitate popular...
Provided by University of California, Riverside
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White Papers
Semantic Data Integration Approaches for e-Governanace
Jan 2011
Increased generation of data in the e-governance R&D process is required to generate the expected services in terms of enhanced e-services productivity and pipelines. The inability of existing...
Provided by King Saud University
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White Papers
Experiences and Challenges With Using CERT Data to Analyze International Cyber Security
Oct 2009
With the increasing interconnection of computer networks and sophistication of cyber attacks, it is important to understand the dynamics of such situations, especially in regards to cyber...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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White Papers
An Intelligent Human-Computer Interaction System for Decision Support
Jan 2011
This paper proposes a novel architecture for developing decision support systems. Unlike conventional decision support systems, the proposed architecture endeavors to reveal the decision-making...
Provided by Universiti Malaysia Sarawak
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White Papers
Formal Verification of Transportation Cyber Physical Systems
Oct 2008
Transportation cyber physical systems are now being designed using computer-aided control system design tools, such as Matlab. Analysis is currently supported only in the form of simulation. To...
Provided by SRI International
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White Papers
Analysis and Verification Challenges for Cyber-Physical Transportation Systems
Oct 2008
Substantial technological and engineering advances in various disciplines make it possible more than ever before to provide autonomous control choices for cars, trains, and aircraft. Correct...
Provided by Carnegie Mellon University
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White Papers
The Software EBox: Integrated Information for Situational Awareness
Feb 2009
This paper describes the development of the "EBox", a system that provides integrated access to a wide variety of information sources relevant to providing situational awareness during emergency...
Provided by University of California, Irvine
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White Papers
A Privacy Preserving Repository for Data Integration Across Data Sharing Services
Dec 2008
Current data sharing and integration among various organizations require a central and trusted authority to collect data from all data sources and then integrate the collected data. This process...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Critical Issues in Global Geographic Information Managementwith a Detailed Focused on Data Integration and Interoperability of Systems and Data
May 2010
The GSDI Association continues its support for the United Nations for taking the initiative on this critical global geographic information issue; and is willing to contribute to new arrangements...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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White Papers
A Web-Based Agricultural Decision Support System on Crop Growth Monitoring and Food Security Strategies
Aug 2010
Food shortage has been among the most threatening problems to the world since the beginning of the new century. And it means more to the countries with a large amount of citizens such as China....
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Impact of Vehicular Communications Security on Transportation Safety
Jul 2008
Transportation safety, one of the main driving forces of the development of Vehicular Communication (VC) systems, relies on high-rate safety messaging (beaconing). At the same time, there is...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
FuSem - Exploring Different Semantics of Data Fusion
Sep 2007
Data fusion is the final step of a typical data integration process, after schematic conflicts have been overcome and after duplicates have been correctly identified. The authors present the...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Increasing Buffer-Locality for Multiple Index Based Scans Through Intelligent Placement and Index Scan Speed Control
Sep 2007
Decision support systems are characterized by large concurrent scan operations. A significant percentage of these scans are executed as index based scans of the data. This is especially true when...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Stop-and-Restart Style Execution for Long Running Decision Support Queries
Sep 2007
Long running decision support queries can be resource intensive and often lead to resource contention in data warehousing systems. Today, the only real option available to the DBAs when faced with...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Using a Trust Inference Model for Flexible and Controlled Information Sharing During Crises
Dec 2010
The fluid, urgent nature of crises requires flexible, responsive information sharing. Recent studies show, however, that in business catastrophes and other kinds of crises conventional access...
Provided by Blackwell Publishing
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White Papers
Recommender Systems for the Conference Paper Assignment Problem
Oct 2009
The authors present a recommender systems approach to conference paper assignment, i.e., the task of assigning paper submissions to reviewers. They address both the modeling of reviewer paper...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Reconcilable Differences
Mar 2009
Exact query reformulation using views in positive relational languages is well understood, and has a variety of applications in query optimization and data sharing. Generalizations to larger...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
The ORCHESTRA Collaborative Data Sharing System
Sep 2008
Sharing structured data today requires standardizing upon a single schema, then mapping and cleaning all of the data. This results in a single queriable mediated data instance. However, for...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania
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White Papers
Incentive and Trust Issues in Assured Information Sharing
Jan 2011
Assured information sharing among different organizations in a coalitional environment is an important first step in accomplishing many critical tasks. For example, different security agencies may...
Provided by University of Texas at Dallas
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White Papers
TIUPAM: A Framework for Trustworthiness-Centric Information Sharing
Apr 2009
Information is essential to decision making. Nowadays, decision makers are often overwhelmed with large volumes of information, some of which may be inaccurate, incorrect, inappropriate,...
Provided by International Federation for Information Processing
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White Papers
Foundations for Group-Centric Secure Information Sharing Models
Jun 2009
The authors develop the foundations for a theory of Group-Centric Secure Information Sharing (g-SIS), characterize a specific family of models in this arena and identify several directions in...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Enforcement Architecture and Implementation Model for Group-Centric Information Sharing
Jan 2011
A fundamental requirement for Secure Information Sharing (SIS) is that protection needs to extend to clients. Trusted Computing Technology provides a hardware root of trust through the Trusted...
Provided by George Mason University
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White Papers
Provenance in ORCHESTRA
Aug 2010
Sharing structured data today requires agreeing on a standard schema, then mapping and cleaning all of the data to achieve a single queriable mediated instance. However, for settings in which...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
Cyber Physical Systems: Design Challenges
May 2008
This paper examines the challenges in designing such systems, and in particular raises the question of whether today's computing and networking technologies provide an adequate foundation for CPS....
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
Usable Key Agreement in Home Networks
Dec 2008
With the rapid emergence of new home networking technologies and proliferation of devices that use them, innovation has focused on rich functionality and largely ignored the associated security...
Provided by Carnegie Mellon University
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White Papers
Lost in Translation: Data Integration Tools Meet the Semantic Web
Mar 2011
More information is now being published in machine processable form on the web and, as de-facto distributed knowledge bases are materializing, partly encouraged by the vision of the Semantic Web,...
Provided by University of Manchester
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White Papers
On-line secret sharing
Jul 2010
In a perfect secret sharing scheme the dealer distributes shares to participants so that qualified subsets can recover the secret, while unqualified subsets have no information on the secret. In...
Provided by Central European University
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White Papers
Global Detection of Complex Copying Relationships Between Sources
Oct 2009
Web technologies have enabled data sharing between sources but also simplified copying (and often publishing without proper attribution). The copying relationships can be complex: some sources...
Provided by VLDB Endowment
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White Papers
Computational Processes and Incompleteness
Jun 2009
The authors introduce a formal definition of Wolfram's notion of computational process based on cellular automata, a physics-like model of computation. There is a natural classification of these...
Provided by Carnegie Mellon University
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White Papers
Agent-Oriented Approach for Detecting and Managing Risks in Emergency Situations
Jul 2009
This paper presents an agent-oriented approach to build a decision support system aimed at helping emergency managers to detect and to manage risks. The authors stress the flexibility and the...
Provided by University of Le Havre
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White Papers
Justintime Data Integration in Action
Aug 2010
Today's data integration systems must be flexible enough to support the typical iterative and incremental process of integration, and may need to scale to hundreds of data sources. In this paper...
Provided by VLDB Endowment
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White Papers
SIDEKICK: Genomic Data Driven Analysis and Decision-Making Framework
Jun 2010
Scientists striving to unlock mysteries within complex biological systems face myriad barriers in effectively integrating available information to enhance their understanding. While experimental...
Provided by University of Texas
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White Papers
Efficient Data Integration: Automation, Collaboration, and Relaxation
Sep 2007
The rapid growth of distributed data has fueled significant interest in building data integration systems. However, developing these systems today still requires an enormous amount of labor from...
Provided by University of Illinois
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White Papers
Doctrine for Cybersecurity
Apr 2011
Successions of doctrines have been advocated in the past for enhancing cybersecurity: Prevention, risk management, and deterrence through accountability. None has proved effective, and their...
Provided by Cornell University
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White Papers
Functional Dependency Generation and Applications in Pay-as-You-Go Data Integration Systems
Jun 2009
Recently, the opportunity of extracting structured data from the Web has been identified by a number of research projects. One such example is that millions of relational-style HTML tables can be...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Analyzing and Revising Data Integration Schemas to Improve Their Matchability
Aug 2008
Data integration systems often provide a uniform query interface, called a mediated schema, to a multitude of data sources. To answer user queries, such systems employ a set of semantic matches...
Provided by VLDB Endowment
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White Papers
Networked Control Systems Under Cyber Attacks With Applications to Power Networks
Jan 2010
Networked control systems under certain cyber attacks are analyzed. The communication network of these control systems make them vulnerable to attacks from malicious outsiders. The authors' paper...
Provided by Anne Arundel Community College(AACC)
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White Papers
Building Secure, Resilient Architectures for Cyber Mission Assurance
Jan 2011
Today's Information Technology (IT) environments are increasingly subject to escalating cyber attacks. Cyber threats vary widely in sophistication, intent, and the consequences to the targeted...
Provided by MITRE
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White Papers
Evaluating the Impact of Cyber Attacks on Missions
Aug 2010
Using current methods, it is virtually impossible to determine the impact of a cyber attack on the attainment of mission objectives. Do the authors know which mission elements are affected? Can...
Provided by MITRE
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White Papers
Stochastic Programming Model Based on Compound Quantification and Its Application in Transportation Problems
Aug 2011
As a kind of particular programming problem, transportation problem attracts much attention in many fields, such as energy development, materials management, etc. In this paper, after analyzing...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Ontology-Based Metadata Integration in the Cultural Heritage Domain
Jan 2008
In this paper, the authors propose an ontology-based metadata integration methodology for the cultural heritage domain. The proposed real-world approach considers an integration architecture in...
Provided by Springer Science+Business Media
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White Papers
Online Data Fusion
Sep 2011
The Web contains a significant volume of structured data in various domains, but a lot of data are dirty and erroneous, and they can be propagated through copying. While data integration...
Provided by VLDB Endowment
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White Papers
Human Factors-Aware Service Scheduling in Vehicular Cyber-Physical Systems
Mar 2011
It is essential to consider drivers' perceptions and reactions when building Vehicular Cyber-Physical Systems (VCPS) since the effectiveness and efficiency of VCPS will largely depend on how...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Long PN Code Based DSSS Watermarking
Mar 2011
Cyber crimes often involve complicated scenes. In this paper, the authors investigate unidentified crimes committed through anonymous communication networks. They developed a long Pseudo-Noise...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
One Table Stores All: Enabling Painless Free-and-Easy Data Publishing and Sharing
Jan 2011
In this paper, the authors present a free-and-easy data publishing and sharing system based on folksonomy. The system accepts data objects described with user-created metadata, called data units....
Provided by Tsinghua University
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White Papers
Bounded Regular Path Queries in View-Based Data Integration
Apr 2009
In this paper, the authors study the problem of deciding boundedness of (recursive) regular path queries over views in data integration systems, that is, whether a query can be re-expressed...
Provided by Concordia University
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White Papers
Advanced Persistent Threats: A Decade in Review
Jun 2011
This paper defines the term Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) in the context of cyber threats and cyber attack. It presents a timeline and summary of prominent cyber attacks likely attributable to...
Provided by Command Five Pty
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White Papers
Flexible Decision Support in Dynamic Inter-organizational Networks
Nov 2009
An effective Decision Support System (DSS) should help its users improve decision-making in complex, information-rich, dynamic environments. The authors present a feature gap analysis of current...
Provided by University of Minnesota
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White Papers
A Parallel Download Protocol for Internet-Based Distributed Systems
May 2008
Parallel transfer of large amounts of data is attractive as the data can be received in less time and is more resilient to connection failures. This is often used in e-Science under the field of...
Provided by Deakin University
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White Papers
Inducing Relatedness Graphs for Data Integration
Sep 2009
In this paper, the authors present the AbsMatcher system for schema matching which uses a graph based approach. AbsMatcher creates a graph of related attributes within a schema, mines similarity...
Provided by Indiana University
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White Papers
Evaluating the Impact of Cyber Attacks on Missions
Aug 2010
Using current methods, it is virtually impossible to determine the impact of a cyber attack on the attainment of mission objectives. Do the authors know which mission elements are affected? Can...
Provided by MITRE
-
White Papers
Building Secure, Resilient Architectures for Cyber Mission Assurance
Jan 2011
Today's Information Technology (IT) environments are increasingly subject to escalating cyber attacks. Cyber threats vary widely in sophistication, intent, and the consequences to the targeted...
Provided by MITRE
-
White Papers
Networked Control Systems Under Cyber Attacks With Applications to Power Networks
Jan 2010
Networked control systems under certain cyber attacks are analyzed. The communication network of these control systems make them vulnerable to attacks from malicious outsiders. The authors' paper...
Provided by Anne Arundel Community College(AACC)
-
White Papers
Analyzing and Revising Data Integration Schemas to Improve Their Matchability
Aug 2008
Data integration systems often provide a uniform query interface, called a mediated schema, to a multitude of data sources. To answer user queries, such systems employ a set of semantic matches...
Provided by VLDB Endowment
-
White Papers
Functional Dependency Generation and Applications in Pay-as-You-Go Data Integration Systems
Jun 2009
Recently, the opportunity of extracting structured data from the Web has been identified by a number of research projects. One such example is that millions of relational-style HTML tables can be...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
Doctrine for Cybersecurity
Apr 2011
Successions of doctrines have been advocated in the past for enhancing cybersecurity: Prevention, risk management, and deterrence through accountability. None has proved effective, and their...
Provided by Cornell University
-
White Papers
Efficient Data Integration: Automation, Collaboration, and Relaxation
Sep 2007
The rapid growth of distributed data has fueled significant interest in building data integration systems. However, developing these systems today still requires an enormous amount of labor from...
Provided by University of Illinois
-
White Papers
SIDEKICK: Genomic Data Driven Analysis and Decision-Making Framework
Jun 2010
Scientists striving to unlock mysteries within complex biological systems face myriad barriers in effectively integrating available information to enhance their understanding. While experimental...
Provided by University of Texas
-
White Papers
Justintime Data Integration in Action
Aug 2010
Today's data integration systems must be flexible enough to support the typical iterative and incremental process of integration, and may need to scale to hundreds of data sources. In this paper...
Provided by VLDB Endowment
-
White Papers
Agent-Oriented Approach for Detecting and Managing Risks in Emergency Situations
Jul 2009
This paper presents an agent-oriented approach to build a decision support system aimed at helping emergency managers to detect and to manage risks. The authors stress the flexibility and the...
Provided by University of Le Havre
-
White Papers
Computational Processes and Incompleteness
Jun 2009
The authors introduce a formal definition of Wolfram's notion of computational process based on cellular automata, a physics-like model of computation. There is a natural classification of these...
Provided by Carnegie Mellon University
-
White Papers
Global Detection of Complex Copying Relationships Between Sources
Oct 2009
Web technologies have enabled data sharing between sources but also simplified copying (and often publishing without proper attribution). The copying relationships can be complex: some sources...
Provided by VLDB Endowment
-
White Papers
On-line secret sharing
Jul 2010
In a perfect secret sharing scheme the dealer distributes shares to participants so that qualified subsets can recover the secret, while unqualified subsets have no information on the secret. In...
Provided by Central European University
-
White Papers
Lost in Translation: Data Integration Tools Meet the Semantic Web
Mar 2011
More information is now being published in machine processable form on the web and, as de-facto distributed knowledge bases are materializing, partly encouraged by the vision of the Semantic Web,...
Provided by University of Manchester
-
White Papers
Usable Key Agreement in Home Networks
Dec 2008
With the rapid emergence of new home networking technologies and proliferation of devices that use them, innovation has focused on rich functionality and largely ignored the associated security...
Provided by Carnegie Mellon University
-
White Papers
Cyber Physical Systems: Design Challenges
May 2008
This paper examines the challenges in designing such systems, and in particular raises the question of whether today's computing and networking technologies provide an adequate foundation for CPS....
Provided by University of California
-
White Papers
Provenance in ORCHESTRA
Aug 2010
Sharing structured data today requires agreeing on a standard schema, then mapping and cleaning all of the data to achieve a single queriable mediated instance. However, for settings in which...
Provided by University of California
-
White Papers
Enforcement Architecture and Implementation Model for Group-Centric Information Sharing
Jan 2011
A fundamental requirement for Secure Information Sharing (SIS) is that protection needs to extend to clients. Trusted Computing Technology provides a hardware root of trust through the Trusted...
Provided by George Mason University
-
White Papers
Foundations for Group-Centric Secure Information Sharing Models
Jun 2009
The authors develop the foundations for a theory of Group-Centric Secure Information Sharing (g-SIS), characterize a specific family of models in this arena and identify several directions in...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
TIUPAM: A Framework for Trustworthiness-Centric Information Sharing
Apr 2009
Information is essential to decision making. Nowadays, decision makers are often overwhelmed with large volumes of information, some of which may be inaccurate, incorrect, inappropriate,...
Provided by International Federation for Information Processing
-
White Papers
Incentive and Trust Issues in Assured Information Sharing
Jan 2011
Assured information sharing among different organizations in a coalitional environment is an important first step in accomplishing many critical tasks. For example, different security agencies may...
Provided by University of Texas at Dallas
-
White Papers
The ORCHESTRA Collaborative Data Sharing System
Sep 2008
Sharing structured data today requires standardizing upon a single schema, then mapping and cleaning all of the data. This results in a single queriable mediated data instance. However, for...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania
-
White Papers
Reconcilable Differences
Mar 2009
Exact query reformulation using views in positive relational languages is well understood, and has a variety of applications in query optimization and data sharing. Generalizations to larger...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
Recommender Systems for the Conference Paper Assignment Problem
Oct 2009
The authors present a recommender systems approach to conference paper assignment, i.e., the task of assigning paper submissions to reviewers. They address both the modeling of reviewer paper...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
Using a Trust Inference Model for Flexible and Controlled Information Sharing During Crises
Dec 2010
The fluid, urgent nature of crises requires flexible, responsive information sharing. Recent studies show, however, that in business catastrophes and other kinds of crises conventional access...
Provided by Blackwell Publishing
-
White Papers
Stop-and-Restart Style Execution for Long Running Decision Support Queries
Sep 2007
Long running decision support queries can be resource intensive and often lead to resource contention in data warehousing systems. Today, the only real option available to the DBAs when faced with...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
Increasing Buffer-Locality for Multiple Index Based Scans Through Intelligent Placement and Index Scan Speed Control
Sep 2007
Decision support systems are characterized by large concurrent scan operations. A significant percentage of these scans are executed as index based scans of the data. This is especially true when...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
FuSem - Exploring Different Semantics of Data Fusion
Sep 2007
Data fusion is the final step of a typical data integration process, after schematic conflicts have been overcome and after duplicates have been correctly identified. The authors present the...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
Impact of Vehicular Communications Security on Transportation Safety
Jul 2008
Transportation safety, one of the main driving forces of the development of Vehicular Communication (VC) systems, relies on high-rate safety messaging (beaconing). At the same time, there is...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
Whitepapers
Just-in-Time Data Integration in Action
Sep 2010
Today's data integration systems must be flexible enough to support the typical iterative and incremental process of integration, and may need to scale to hundreds of data sources. In this work...
Provided by IBM
-
White Papers
Cyber-Fraud Is One Typo Away
Jan 2008
Spelling errors when typing a URL can be exploited by website-squatters: users are led to phony sites in a phenomenon the authors call parasitic URL naming. These phony sites imitate popular...
Provided by University of California, Riverside
-
White Papers
Semantic Data Integration Approaches for e-Governanace
Jan 2011
Increased generation of data in the e-governance R&D process is required to generate the expected services in terms of enhanced e-services productivity and pipelines. The inability of existing...
Provided by King Saud University
-
White Papers
Experiences and Challenges With Using CERT Data to Analyze International Cyber Security
Oct 2009
With the increasing interconnection of computer networks and sophistication of cyber attacks, it is important to understand the dynamics of such situations, especially in regards to cyber...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
-
White Papers
An Intelligent Human-Computer Interaction System for Decision Support
Jan 2011
This paper proposes a novel architecture for developing decision support systems. Unlike conventional decision support systems, the proposed architecture endeavors to reveal the decision-making...
Provided by Universiti Malaysia Sarawak
-
White Papers
Formal Verification of Transportation Cyber Physical Systems
Oct 2008
Transportation cyber physical systems are now being designed using computer-aided control system design tools, such as Matlab. Analysis is currently supported only in the form of simulation. To...
Provided by SRI International
-
White Papers
Analysis and Verification Challenges for Cyber-Physical Transportation Systems
Oct 2008
Substantial technological and engineering advances in various disciplines make it possible more than ever before to provide autonomous control choices for cars, trains, and aircraft. Correct...
Provided by Carnegie Mellon University
-
White Papers
The Software EBox: Integrated Information for Situational Awareness
Feb 2009
This paper describes the development of the "EBox", a system that provides integrated access to a wide variety of information sources relevant to providing situational awareness during emergency...
Provided by University of California, Irvine
-
White Papers
A Privacy Preserving Repository for Data Integration Across Data Sharing Services
Dec 2008
Current data sharing and integration among various organizations require a central and trusted authority to collect data from all data sources and then integrate the collected data. This process...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
White Papers
Critical Issues in Global Geographic Information Managementwith a Detailed Focused on Data Integration and Interoperability of Systems and Data
May 2010
The GSDI Association continues its support for the United Nations for taking the initiative on this critical global geographic information issue; and is willing to contribute to new arrangements...
Provided by University of Melbourne
-
White Papers
A Web-Based Agricultural Decision Support System on Crop Growth Monitoring and Food Security Strategies
Aug 2010
Food shortage has been among the most threatening problems to the world since the beginning of the new century. And it means more to the countries with a large amount of citizens such as China....
Provided by Academy Publisher
-
White Papers
Impact of Vehicular Communications Security on Transportation Safety
Jul 2008
Transportation safety, one of the main driving forces of the development of Vehicular Communication (VC) systems, relies on high-rate safety messaging (beaconing). At the same time, there is...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
White Papers
FuSem - Exploring Different Semantics of Data Fusion
Sep 2007
Data fusion is the final step of a typical data integration process, after schematic conflicts have been overcome and after duplicates have been correctly identified. The authors present the...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
Increasing Buffer-Locality for Multiple Index Based Scans Through Intelligent Placement and Index Scan Speed Control
Sep 2007
Decision support systems are characterized by large concurrent scan operations. A significant percentage of these scans are executed as index based scans of the data. This is especially true when...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
Stop-and-Restart Style Execution for Long Running Decision Support Queries
Sep 2007
Long running decision support queries can be resource intensive and often lead to resource contention in data warehousing systems. Today, the only real option available to the DBAs when faced with...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
Using a Trust Inference Model for Flexible and Controlled Information Sharing During Crises
Dec 2010
The fluid, urgent nature of crises requires flexible, responsive information sharing. Recent studies show, however, that in business catastrophes and other kinds of crises conventional access...
Provided by Blackwell Publishing
-
White Papers
Recommender Systems for the Conference Paper Assignment Problem
Oct 2009
The authors present a recommender systems approach to conference paper assignment, i.e., the task of assigning paper submissions to reviewers. They address both the modeling of reviewer paper...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
Reconcilable Differences
Mar 2009
Exact query reformulation using views in positive relational languages is well understood, and has a variety of applications in query optimization and data sharing. Generalizations to larger...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
The ORCHESTRA Collaborative Data Sharing System
Sep 2008
Sharing structured data today requires standardizing upon a single schema, then mapping and cleaning all of the data. This results in a single queriable mediated data instance. However, for...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania
-
White Papers
Incentive and Trust Issues in Assured Information Sharing
Jan 2011
Assured information sharing among different organizations in a coalitional environment is an important first step in accomplishing many critical tasks. For example, different security agencies may...
Provided by University of Texas at Dallas
-
White Papers
TIUPAM: A Framework for Trustworthiness-Centric Information Sharing
Apr 2009
Information is essential to decision making. Nowadays, decision makers are often overwhelmed with large volumes of information, some of which may be inaccurate, incorrect, inappropriate,...
Provided by International Federation for Information Processing
-
White Papers
Foundations for Group-Centric Secure Information Sharing Models
Jun 2009
The authors develop the foundations for a theory of Group-Centric Secure Information Sharing (g-SIS), characterize a specific family of models in this arena and identify several directions in...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
Enforcement Architecture and Implementation Model for Group-Centric Information Sharing
Jan 2011
A fundamental requirement for Secure Information Sharing (SIS) is that protection needs to extend to clients. Trusted Computing Technology provides a hardware root of trust through the Trusted...
Provided by George Mason University
-
White Papers
Provenance in ORCHESTRA
Aug 2010
Sharing structured data today requires agreeing on a standard schema, then mapping and cleaning all of the data to achieve a single queriable mediated instance. However, for settings in which...
Provided by University of California
-
White Papers
Cyber Physical Systems: Design Challenges
May 2008
This paper examines the challenges in designing such systems, and in particular raises the question of whether today's computing and networking technologies provide an adequate foundation for CPS....
Provided by University of California
-
White Papers
Usable Key Agreement in Home Networks
Dec 2008
With the rapid emergence of new home networking technologies and proliferation of devices that use them, innovation has focused on rich functionality and largely ignored the associated security...
Provided by Carnegie Mellon University
-
White Papers
Lost in Translation: Data Integration Tools Meet the Semantic Web
Mar 2011
More information is now being published in machine processable form on the web and, as de-facto distributed knowledge bases are materializing, partly encouraged by the vision of the Semantic Web,...
Provided by University of Manchester
-
White Papers
On-line secret sharing
Jul 2010
In a perfect secret sharing scheme the dealer distributes shares to participants so that qualified subsets can recover the secret, while unqualified subsets have no information on the secret. In...
Provided by Central European University
-
White Papers
Global Detection of Complex Copying Relationships Between Sources
Oct 2009
Web technologies have enabled data sharing between sources but also simplified copying (and often publishing without proper attribution). The copying relationships can be complex: some sources...
Provided by VLDB Endowment
-
White Papers
Computational Processes and Incompleteness
Jun 2009
The authors introduce a formal definition of Wolfram's notion of computational process based on cellular automata, a physics-like model of computation. There is a natural classification of these...
Provided by Carnegie Mellon University
-
White Papers
Agent-Oriented Approach for Detecting and Managing Risks in Emergency Situations
Jul 2009
This paper presents an agent-oriented approach to build a decision support system aimed at helping emergency managers to detect and to manage risks. The authors stress the flexibility and the...
Provided by University of Le Havre
-
White Papers
Justintime Data Integration in Action
Aug 2010
Today's data integration systems must be flexible enough to support the typical iterative and incremental process of integration, and may need to scale to hundreds of data sources. In this paper...
Provided by VLDB Endowment
-
White Papers
SIDEKICK: Genomic Data Driven Analysis and Decision-Making Framework
Jun 2010
Scientists striving to unlock mysteries within complex biological systems face myriad barriers in effectively integrating available information to enhance their understanding. While experimental...
Provided by University of Texas
-
White Papers
Efficient Data Integration: Automation, Collaboration, and Relaxation
Sep 2007
The rapid growth of distributed data has fueled significant interest in building data integration systems. However, developing these systems today still requires an enormous amount of labor from...
Provided by University of Illinois
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White Papers
Doctrine for Cybersecurity
Apr 2011
Successions of doctrines have been advocated in the past for enhancing cybersecurity: Prevention, risk management, and deterrence through accountability. None has proved effective, and their...
Provided by Cornell University
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White Papers
Functional Dependency Generation and Applications in Pay-as-You-Go Data Integration Systems
Jun 2009
Recently, the opportunity of extracting structured data from the Web has been identified by a number of research projects. One such example is that millions of relational-style HTML tables can be...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Analyzing and Revising Data Integration Schemas to Improve Their Matchability
Aug 2008
Data integration systems often provide a uniform query interface, called a mediated schema, to a multitude of data sources. To answer user queries, such systems employ a set of semantic matches...
Provided by VLDB Endowment
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White Papers
Networked Control Systems Under Cyber Attacks With Applications to Power Networks
Jan 2010
Networked control systems under certain cyber attacks are analyzed. The communication network of these control systems make them vulnerable to attacks from malicious outsiders. The authors' paper...
Provided by Anne Arundel Community College(AACC)
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White Papers
Building Secure, Resilient Architectures for Cyber Mission Assurance
Jan 2011
Today's Information Technology (IT) environments are increasingly subject to escalating cyber attacks. Cyber threats vary widely in sophistication, intent, and the consequences to the targeted...
Provided by MITRE
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White Papers
Evaluating the Impact of Cyber Attacks on Missions
Aug 2010
Using current methods, it is virtually impossible to determine the impact of a cyber attack on the attainment of mission objectives. Do the authors know which mission elements are affected? Can...
Provided by MITRE
