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An Adaptive Peer Selection Scheme With Dynamic Network Condition Awareness
Dec 2011
Locality-based peer selection paradigms have been proposed recently based on cooperation between Peer-To-Peer (P2P) service providers, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and end users in order to...
Provided by University of Surrey
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White Papers
A Resources Monitoring Architecture for P2P File-Sharing Systems
Jan 2012
Resources monitoring is an important problem of the overall efficient usage and control of P2P file-sharing systems. The resources of file-sharing systems can include all distributing servers,...
Provided by International Association of Computer Science & Information Technology (IACSIT)
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White Papers
Collaborative Filtering Based on P2P Networks
Jul 2010
Peer-To-Peer (P2P) networks are used by millions of people for sharing music files. As these networks become ever more popular, they also serve as an excellent source for Music Information...
Provided by Tel Aviv University
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White Papers
Adaptive Admission Control for Web Applications With Variable Capacity
May 2009
The system capacity available to a multi-tier Web based application is often a dynamic quantity. Most static threshold-based overload control mechanisms are best suited to situations where the...
Provided by Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
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White Papers
Searching Methods of MP2P Based on Diffusion Strategy of Resources Index
Apr 2011
The inherent mobility of MP2P peers lead to an efficient of existing resources positioning method low, and the proposed application model is single. The proposed methods considered the resource...
Provided by mecs-press
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White Papers
Quality-Driven Business Policy Specification and Refinement for Service-Oriented Systems
Nov 2008
Enterprise software systems play an essential role in an organization's business operation. Many business rules and regulations governing an organization's operation can be translated into quality...
Provided by Springer Science+Business Media
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White Papers
Programmable Protocols for Social Networks
Jul 2011
The authors study automation in social networks using protocols. They introduce a generic social protocol which addresses the basic problem of making a determination of status regarding an entity...
Provided by Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
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White Papers
Caching Personalised and Database-Related Dynamic Web Pages
Dec 2010
In recent years, web development is the most important application in internet. Caching related technique improves the web server performance significantly. However, existing caching schemes...
Provided by Inderscience Enterprises
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White Papers
Traffic Engineering and Routing in IP Networks With Centralized Control
Nov 2007
There have been research initiatives in centralized control recently, which advocate that the control of an Autonomous System (AS) should be performed in a centralized fashion. In this paper, the...
Provided by KTH Royal Institute of Technology
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White Papers
Towards Unbiased BFS Sampling
Oct 2011
A large body of work in the networking community focuses on Internet topology measurements at various levels, including the IP or AS connectivity, the Web (WWW), Peer-To-Peer (P2P) and Online...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Practical Recommendations on Crawling Online Social Networks
Oct 2011
The authors' goal in this paper is to develop a practical framework for obtaining a uniform sample of users in an Online Social Network (OSN) by crawling its social graph. Such a sample allows to...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Multigraph Sampling of Online Social Networks
Oct 2011
State-of-the-art techniques for probability sampling of users of Online Social Networks (OSNs) are based on random walks on a single social relation (typically friendship). While powerful, these...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Walking in Facebook: A Case Study of Unbiased Sampling of OSNs
Dec 2009
With more than 250 million active users, FaceBook (FB) is currently one of the most important online social networks. The authors' goal in this paper is to obtain a representative (unbiased)...
Provided by EPFL
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White Papers
On the Extraction and Analysis of a Social Network With Partial Organizational Observation
Jan 2012
The behavior of an organization may be inferred based on the behavior of its members, their contacts, and their connectivity. One approach to organizational analysis is the construction and...
Provided by University of Arizona
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White Papers
WebJail: Least-Privilege Integration of Third-Party Components in Web Mashups
Dec 2011
In the last decade, the Internet landscape has transformed from a mostly static world into Web 2.0, where the use of web applications and mashups has become a daily routine for many Internet...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Bayesian Network Based Trust Management
Nov 2007
Trust is an essential component for secure collaboration in uncertain environments. Trust management can be used to reason about future interactions between entities. In reputation-based trust...
Provided by Beijing Institute of Technology
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White Papers
Self-Sustaining Composed Service Groups for Future Internet
Oct 2008
The Future Internet will witness a transformation towards service centric communication systems that will closely support the user's requirements. It is anticipated that these services will not...
Provided by Waterford Institute of Technology
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White Papers
Towards Low-Redundancy Push-Pull P2P Live Streaming
Jul 2008
P2P live streaming systems are developed in two major approaches: tree-push versus mesh-pull. The hybrid push-pull streaming, as an emerging and promising approach, offers a good tradeoff between...
Provided by The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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White Papers
A Framework for Avoiding Steganography Usage Over HTTP
May 2011
Steganographic techniques allow users to covertly transmit information, hiding the existence of the communication itself. These can be used in several scenarios ranging from evading censorship to...
Provided by University of Portsmouth
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White Papers
Information Retrieval in Schema-Based P2P Systems Using One-Dimensional Semantic Space
Jun 2007
The widespread use of RDF-based information necessitates efficient information retrieval techniques in wide-area networks. In this paper, the authors present Dynamic Semantic Space, a schema-based...
Provided by Reed Elsevier
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White Papers
Peer-to-Peer Context Reasoning in Pervasive Computing Environments
Apr 2008
In this paper, the authors propose a peer-to-peer approach to derive and obtain additional context data from low-level context data that may be spread over multiple domains in pervasive computing...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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White Papers
A Semantic P2P Framework for Building Context aware Applications in Multiple Smart Spaces
Aug 2007
Context information has emerged as an important resource to enable autonomy and flexibility of ubiquitous applications. The widespread use of context information necessitates an efficient lookup...
Provided by National University of Singapore
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White Papers
CoQUOS: Lightweight Support for Continuous Queries in Unstructured Overlays
Jan 2012
The utility and the effectiveness of Peer-To-Peer (P2P) content distribution systems can be greatly enhanced by augmenting their ad-hoc content discovery mechanisms with two capabilities, namely a...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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White Papers
Providing Hierarchical Lookup Service for P2P-VoD Systems
Feb 2012
Supporting random jump in P2P-VoD systems requires efficient lookup for the "Best" suppliers, where "Best" means the suppliers should meet two requirements: content match and network quality...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
A Further Look at the Distance-Availability Weighted Piece Selection Method: A BitTorrent Piece Selection Method for On-Demand Media Streaming
Apr 2011
During the last few years, BitTorrent has become a popular way of transferring large files over the Internet. However, the original out-of-order nature of the BitTorrent protocol has made it...
Provided by IARIA
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White Papers
Constructing a Stable Virtual Peer From Multiple Unstable Peers for Fault-Tolerant P2P Systems
Mar 2011
P2P systems must handle unexpected peer failure and leaving, and thus it is more difficult to implement than server-client systems. In this paper, the authors propose a novel approach to implement...
Provided by IARIA
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White Papers
Long-Range CAN: to Enhance the Performance of Content-Addressable Networks
Jun 2010
Distributed hash table algorithms construct structured P2P networks to control the communication cost of resource lookups. Resource or content lookups in DHT protocols are performed based on a key...
Provided by IARIA
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White Papers
Peer Clustering System for Different Start Video Broadcasting
Jul 2011
The different start video broadcasting is a new approach to manage video streaming applications. This approach allows unpunctual users to view broadcast programs from the beginning. This paper...
Provided by IARIA
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White Papers
Mining Web Usage and Content Structure Data to Improve Web Cache Performance in Content Aggregation Systems
Jul 2011
Web cache performance has been reduced in Web 2.0 applications due to the increase of the content update rates and the higher number of personalized web pages. This problem can be minimized by the...
Provided by IARIA
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White Papers
The State-of-the-Art in Personalized Recommender Systems for Social Networking
Apr 2011
With the explosion of Web 2.0 application such as blogs, social and professional networks, and various other types of social media, the rich online information and various new sources of knowledge...
Provided by University of Oslo
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White Papers
Multi-Factors Oriented Study of P2P Churn
Feb 2009
The dynamics of peers, namely Churn, is an inherent property of Peer-To-Peer (P2P) systems and is critical to their design and evaluation. Although every excellent P2P protocol has some solution...
Provided by John Wiley & Sons
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White Papers
Detecting Events in the Dynamics of Ego-Centered Measurements of the Internet Topology
Apr 2010
Detecting events such as major routing changes or congestions in the dynamics of the internet topology is an important but challenging task. The authors explore here a top-down approach based on a...
Provided by CNRS
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White Papers
Estimating Properties in Dynamic Systems: The Case of Churn in P2P Networks
Mar 2010
In many systems, such as P2P systems, the dynamicity of participating elements, or churn, has a strong impact. As a consequence, many efforts have been made to characterize it, and in particular...
Provided by CNRS
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White Papers
Multiparty Authorization Framework for Data Sharing in Online Social Networks
Jun 2011
Online Social Networks (OSNs) have experienced tremendous growth in recent years and become a de facto portal for hundreds of millions of Internet users. These OSNs offer attractive means for...
Provided by International Federation for Information Processing
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White Papers
Non-Functional Requirements for Business Processes in the Context of Service-Oriented Architectures
Oct 2011
The authors present novel concepts to formalize and apply Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs) for business processes in the context of Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs). Today, popular...
Provided by IARIA
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White Papers
A Systematic Review of Self-Adaptation in Service-Oriented Architectures
Oct 2011
The study of adaptivity, i.e., the capability to react to changes in the environment, is becoming ever more important in many fields of study, and in the development of software in particular....
Provided by IARIA
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White Papers
A Distributed Reputation System for Super-Peer Desktop Grids
Jun 2010
Desktop Grids leverage otherwise unused resources of idle desktop computers, providing vast amounts of cumulative computational power. However, resource sharing in Peer-to-Peer environments with...
Provided by IARIA
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White Papers
Exploiting Communities for Enhancing Lookup Performance in Structured P2P Systems
Jun 2011
Large Peer-To-Peer (P2P) systems for file transfer exhibit the presence of communities based on semantic, geographic, or organizational interests of users. Generally, resources commonly shared...
Provided by Colorado State University
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White Papers
IPv6: Now You See Me, Now You Don't
Jul 2011
Current implementations of the Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) use StateLess Address Auto Configuration (SLAAC) to assign network addresses to hosts. This technique produces a static value...
Provided by IARIA
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White Papers
Achieving Performance and Robustness in P2P Streaming Systems
Aug 2009
This paper present a thorough and homogeneous comparison of chunk and peer selection strategies suitable for mesh-based, live, P2P streaming applications. Strategies are studied in a context of...
Provided by University of Trento
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White Papers
Performance Tuning Open Text Web Solutions Management Server and Delivery Server
Jul 2009
If anyone has made an investment in Open Text Web Solutions (formerly RedDot) Web Content Management products, he/she undoubtedly experienced performance issues. While every software requires...
Provided by Oshyn
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White Papers
Oracle Beehive: The Future of Collaboration
Sep 2008
Collaboration is mission critical. Unfortunately collaboration today is an afterthought on many IT agendas. IT needs a collaborative solution that can properly handle the attention towards...
Provided by Oracle
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Webcasts
IT Manager Webcast: Natural/Adabas Migration to .NET - A Complete Automated Solution (Level 100)
Jun 2009
The presenters of this webcast shows how ATERAS automated technology will provide the optimum solution for the migration and modernization of Adabas Natural mainframe technologies to the robust,...
Provided by Microsoft
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Webcasts
MSDN Webcast: geekSpeak: MVVM Patterns With Christopher Bennage and Rob Eisenberg (Level 200)
Jun 2009
The presenter of this webcast explores UI architectural patterns, such as the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern. The presenters share their experiences developing Windows Presentation Foundation...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Hiring the Best Web Design & Website Development Company: 20 Interview Questions You Must Ask
Jan 2009
The world of web design includes a whole spectrum of freelance web designers, freelance web developers, student-run web companies, mid-level niche digital agencies or the high-end web design...
Provided by Hubpages
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White Papers
An Osterman Research White Paper: AXIGEN, the Alternative for Exchange
Jan 2009
Virtually anyone who uses email at work understands how important this capability to getting his or her work done. For example, an Osterman Research survey conducted during March 2009 found that...
Provided by GECAD TECHNOLOGIES
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White Papers
Internet Explorer 8 Technology Overview for Enterprise and IT Professionals
Mar 2009
Internet Explorer 8 builds on the Phishing Filter technology introduced in Internet Explorer 7 which was designed to warn users when they attempt to visit known-phishing sites, and replaces it in...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Multisorb Technologies Launches New Website: An Online Industry Resource for Active Packaging Solutions
Apr 2009
Multisorb Technologies, the global leader in active packaging technology, today announced the launch of its new website, www.multisorb.com. A comprehensive online resource for active packaging...
Provided by IDS
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White Papers
HyperOffice Vs. Microsoft SharePoint: A Comparative Analysis
Jan 2008
At the dawn of the Internet revolution, email capability was considered cutting-edge communications technology. No business that "Meant business" could be without it. Now, as they enter the 21st...
Provided by HyperOffice
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White Papers
HyperOffice Vs. Microsoft Exchange: A Comparative Analysis
Jan 2008
Historically, growing businesses have been prevented from leveraging high-tech communications and collaboration technologies. Available solutions like Microsoft Exchange were crafted with big...
Provided by HyperOffice
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Case Studies
Bonneville International Uses Ad Manager to Target Their Online Ads to Local and National Audiences
Jun 2008
Bonneville International is a dynamic media company with radio, television, advertising, satellite and online properties in Chicago, Washington, D.C., Seattle, Phoenix, St. Louis, Cincinnati and...
Provided by Google
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Case Studies
The Nation Uses Google Ad Manager to Increase Advertising Flexibility - And Profitability
Jun 2008
Established by abolitionists in 1865, The Nation is America's oldest weekly magazine and one of its premier journals of opinion. The Nation migrated a few years ago from a banner rotation script...
Provided by Google
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Case Studies
Avalanche Increased Ad Revenues, Shaved Ad-Serving Costs, and Reduced Downtime With Google Ad Manager
Jun 2008
Avalanche launched its flagship site, Date.com, on Valentine's Day, 1997. In 2008, a little more than 10 years later, an average of one couple each week marries after meeting on Date.com or sister...
Provided by Google
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Case Studies
Reviewed.com Saw More Pageviews, Time on Site, and Record Revenue With Google Ad Manager
Jun 2008
Reviewed.com is located in Somerville, Massachusetts is a consumer electronics review network that's committed to independent and ethical reviewing and reporting about consumer electronic...
Provided by Google
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Case Studies
Viewpoints Network More Than Doubles Online Advertising Revenues With Google Ad Manager
Aug 2008
Viewpoints have a simple and unique mission: help shoppers leverage the power of personal experience to make smarter decisions about purchasing products and services. It needed to maximize their...
Provided by Google
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Case Studies
Pay-Per-Question Site JustAnswer Uses Google AdWords and the Google Content Network to Reach Customers in 145 Countries
Feb 2009
JustAnswer needed to increase the number of questioners coming to the site, to increase the number of experts to provide answers on the site, to respond to trends and popular queries quickly and...
Provided by Google
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Case Studies
Con Edison Made Site Information Easy to Find With Google Site Search
May 2008
For more than 180 years, Consolidated Edison, Inc. has served one of the world's most dynamic and demanding marketplaces - metropolitan New York. Con Edison places a high priority on open...
Provided by Google
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Case Studies
Waterfilters.net Increased Their Conversion Rate by 11% With Google Site Search
May 2008
Waterfilters.net is a leading distributor for the major water treatment brands. As Waterfilters.net began adding more and more water filter product pages to its site, the company's previous search...
Provided by Google
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Case Studies
eHealthinsurance Improved Site Usability and Reduced Abandonment Rates With Google Site Search
May 2008
Licensed to market and sell health insurance in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, eHealthinsurance has developed partnerships with more than 175 health insurance companies and offers...
Provided by Google
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Case Studies
Google Case Study: Royal & SunAlliance
Dec 2007
Integration problems between Royal & SunAlliance's (RSA) Lotus Notes environment and the existing enterprise search technology used to manage the company's intranet content were causing problems...
Provided by Google
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Case Studies
The National Park Service and the Google Search Appliance
Jan 2009
A bureau of the U.S. Department of the Interior, The National Park Service (NPS) has protected America's parks and monuments since 1916. Federal government's proprietary search tool, FirstGov, was...
Provided by Google
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Case Studies
FindLaw and the Google Search Appliance
Jan 2009
FindLaw, the most frequently visited legal site on the Internet, provides a comprehensive set of legal resources for legal professionals, businesses, students, and the public. Findlaw needed to...
Provided by Google
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Case Studies
Leading Teaching Hospital Improves Search Results, Streamlines IT Tasks With the Google Search Appliance
Apr 2008
The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) is Canada's leading addiction and mental health teaching hospital. Its mission is to improve the lives of those affected by addiction and mental...
Provided by Google
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Case Studies
Discovery Communications and the Google Search Appliance
Jan 2009
Discovery Communications, Inc. (DCI) is a leading media and entertainment company. A previous search product was difficult for the Discovery web team to maintain, because it required extensive...
Provided by Google
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Case Studies
The World Bank and the Google Search Appliance
Jan 2009
The World Bank Group is one of the world's largest sources of financial assistance for developing countries. The World Bank intranet contains documents in all the standard business applications...
Provided by Google
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Case Studies
Xerox and the Google Search Appliance
Jan 2009
Generating $16 billion in revenue in 2002, Xerox Corporation is the global leader in the document management business. The Group intranet contains thousands of PDF and HTML files and a smaller...
Provided by Google
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Case Studies
The Nature Conservancy Opens Up Information to User Communities, Speeding Search and Cutting IT Costs, With the Google Search Appliance
Mar 2009
The Nature Conservancy (TNC), now a million members strong, works around the world to protect and preserve ecologically important lands and waters. TNC manages an extensive intranet to help...
Provided by Google
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Case Studies
FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority) Brings Speed and Pinpoint Accuracy to Website Search With the Google Search Appliance
Jan 2009
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) is the largest non-governmental regulator for all securities firms doing business in the United States overseeing nearly 5,000 brokerage firms,...
Provided by Google
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Case Studies
Leading Consumer Company Boosted Productivity of 23,000 Employees With the Google Search Appliance
Dec 2007
Campbell Soup Company is one of the world's most recognized brands with more than 136 years of company history. It needed to enable its workforce to search the company's corporate intranet for...
Provided by Google
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Case Studies
Northern Trust Increases Accuracy and Relevance of Intranet Searches With the Google Search Appliance and User-Added Results
May 2009
Northern Trust is a global leader in delivering investment management, asset and fund administration, and fiduciary and banking solutions to corporations, institutions, and affluent individuals....
Provided by Google
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Case Studies
ACM Significantly Improved User Experience With Google Site Search
May 2008
ACM (Advanced Currency Markets) is a world leader in online currency and precious metal trading on the Foreign Exchange (FOREX) markets. Founded in 2002, the company places innovation, efficiency,...
Provided by Google
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Case Studies
Codeware Enabled Customers to Find Content 36 Percent Faster With Google Site Search
May 2008
Codeware Inc., established in 1985, is a specialized niche player focused exclusively on providing comprehensive software for the design and analysis of ASME Section VIII vessels and exchangers....
Provided by Google
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Case Studies
ToolHawker Increased Average Customer Page Views Per Visit by 25 Percent With Google Site Search
May 2008
ToolHawker provides tools, equipment and supplies - hand tools, power tools, safety equipment, and more - for the professional technician. With more than 6,000 products in the company's catalog,...
Provided by Google
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Case Studies
TechSmith Improved the Customer Search Experience and Reduced Maintenance Efforts With Google Site Search
May 2008
Founded in 1987, TechSmith is a leading provider of screen capture and recording software for individuals and companies. It started searching for a better site search solution, with several...
Provided by Google
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Case Studies
Google Search Appliance Improves Information Sharing Within the Societe Generale Group
Nov 2007
The Information Systems Department within the Corporate & Investment Banking arm of the Societe Generale group was on the lookout for a high-performance solution to optimise knowledge sharing and...
Provided by Google
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Case Studies
PBS and the Google Search Appliance
Jan 2009
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is a 34-year-old private nonprofit media enterprise, owned and operated by 349 U.S. public television stations. As with any site providing information that...
Provided by Google
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Case Studies
AAA Drives Results for Staff and Members Using the Google Search Appliance
Apr 2008
Since 1902, the not-for-profit AAA (American Automobile Association) has been an advocate for motorists and travelers, spearheading the movement for adequate roads and vehicle safety regulations....
Provided by Google
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Case Studies
The University of Florida and the Google Search Appliance
Jan 2009
The University of Florida (UF) is a public research university in Gainesville, Florida. Founded in 1853, UF is Florida's largest and oldest educational institution and is among the nation's most...
Provided by Google
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Case Studies
Leading Hospital Boosts Clinical and Administrative Productivity With the Google Search Appliance
Jan 2008
At Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, 10,000 staff, physicians, volunteers and students work to improve the lives of hundreds of thousands of people every year. Administrators rely on the intranet...
Provided by Google
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Case Studies
Google Case Study: British Petroleum
Aug 2008
BP is one of the world's largest companies with operations in more than 100 countries employing over 96,000 staff. With any organisation of British Petroleum (BP)'s size, trying to ensure that...
Provided by Google
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White Papers
Self-Sustaining Composed Service Groups for Future Internet
Oct 2008
The Future Internet will witness a transformation towards service centric communication systems that will closely support the user's requirements. It is anticipated that these services will not...
Provided by Waterford Institute of Technology
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White Papers
Towards Low-Redundancy Push-Pull P2P Live Streaming
Jul 2008
P2P live streaming systems are developed in two major approaches: tree-push versus mesh-pull. The hybrid push-pull streaming, as an emerging and promising approach, offers a good tradeoff between...
Provided by The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
-
White Papers
A Framework for Avoiding Steganography Usage Over HTTP
May 2011
Steganographic techniques allow users to covertly transmit information, hiding the existence of the communication itself. These can be used in several scenarios ranging from evading censorship to...
Provided by University of Portsmouth
-
White Papers
Information Retrieval in Schema-Based P2P Systems Using One-Dimensional Semantic Space
Jun 2007
The widespread use of RDF-based information necessitates efficient information retrieval techniques in wide-area networks. In this paper, the authors present Dynamic Semantic Space, a schema-based...
Provided by Reed Elsevier
-
White Papers
Peer-to-Peer Context Reasoning in Pervasive Computing Environments
Apr 2008
In this paper, the authors propose a peer-to-peer approach to derive and obtain additional context data from low-level context data that may be spread over multiple domains in pervasive computing...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
-
White Papers
A Semantic P2P Framework for Building Context aware Applications in Multiple Smart Spaces
Aug 2007
Context information has emerged as an important resource to enable autonomy and flexibility of ubiquitous applications. The widespread use of context information necessitates an efficient lookup...
Provided by National University of Singapore
-
White Papers
CoQUOS: Lightweight Support for Continuous Queries in Unstructured Overlays
Jan 2012
The utility and the effectiveness of Peer-To-Peer (P2P) content distribution systems can be greatly enhanced by augmenting their ad-hoc content discovery mechanisms with two capabilities, namely a...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
-
White Papers
Providing Hierarchical Lookup Service for P2P-VoD Systems
Feb 2012
Supporting random jump in P2P-VoD systems requires efficient lookup for the "Best" suppliers, where "Best" means the suppliers should meet two requirements: content match and network quality...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
A Further Look at the Distance-Availability Weighted Piece Selection Method: A BitTorrent Piece Selection Method for On-Demand Media Streaming
Apr 2011
During the last few years, BitTorrent has become a popular way of transferring large files over the Internet. However, the original out-of-order nature of the BitTorrent protocol has made it...
Provided by IARIA
-
White Papers
Constructing a Stable Virtual Peer From Multiple Unstable Peers for Fault-Tolerant P2P Systems
Mar 2011
P2P systems must handle unexpected peer failure and leaving, and thus it is more difficult to implement than server-client systems. In this paper, the authors propose a novel approach to implement...
Provided by IARIA
-
White Papers
Long-Range CAN: to Enhance the Performance of Content-Addressable Networks
Jun 2010
Distributed hash table algorithms construct structured P2P networks to control the communication cost of resource lookups. Resource or content lookups in DHT protocols are performed based on a key...
Provided by IARIA
-
White Papers
Peer Clustering System for Different Start Video Broadcasting
Jul 2011
The different start video broadcasting is a new approach to manage video streaming applications. This approach allows unpunctual users to view broadcast programs from the beginning. This paper...
Provided by IARIA
-
White Papers
Mining Web Usage and Content Structure Data to Improve Web Cache Performance in Content Aggregation Systems
Jul 2011
Web cache performance has been reduced in Web 2.0 applications due to the increase of the content update rates and the higher number of personalized web pages. This problem can be minimized by the...
Provided by IARIA
-
White Papers
The State-of-the-Art in Personalized Recommender Systems for Social Networking
Apr 2011
With the explosion of Web 2.0 application such as blogs, social and professional networks, and various other types of social media, the rich online information and various new sources of knowledge...
Provided by University of Oslo
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White Papers
Multi-Factors Oriented Study of P2P Churn
Feb 2009
The dynamics of peers, namely Churn, is an inherent property of Peer-To-Peer (P2P) systems and is critical to their design and evaluation. Although every excellent P2P protocol has some solution...
Provided by John Wiley & Sons
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White Papers
Detecting Events in the Dynamics of Ego-Centered Measurements of the Internet Topology
Apr 2010
Detecting events such as major routing changes or congestions in the dynamics of the internet topology is an important but challenging task. The authors explore here a top-down approach based on a...
Provided by CNRS
-
White Papers
Estimating Properties in Dynamic Systems: The Case of Churn in P2P Networks
Mar 2010
In many systems, such as P2P systems, the dynamicity of participating elements, or churn, has a strong impact. As a consequence, many efforts have been made to characterize it, and in particular...
Provided by CNRS
-
White Papers
Multiparty Authorization Framework for Data Sharing in Online Social Networks
Jun 2011
Online Social Networks (OSNs) have experienced tremendous growth in recent years and become a de facto portal for hundreds of millions of Internet users. These OSNs offer attractive means for...
Provided by International Federation for Information Processing
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White Papers
Non-Functional Requirements for Business Processes in the Context of Service-Oriented Architectures
Oct 2011
The authors present novel concepts to formalize and apply Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs) for business processes in the context of Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs). Today, popular...
Provided by IARIA
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White Papers
A Systematic Review of Self-Adaptation in Service-Oriented Architectures
Oct 2011
The study of adaptivity, i.e., the capability to react to changes in the environment, is becoming ever more important in many fields of study, and in the development of software in particular....
Provided by IARIA
-
White Papers
A Distributed Reputation System for Super-Peer Desktop Grids
Jun 2010
Desktop Grids leverage otherwise unused resources of idle desktop computers, providing vast amounts of cumulative computational power. However, resource sharing in Peer-to-Peer environments with...
Provided by IARIA
-
White Papers
Exploiting Communities for Enhancing Lookup Performance in Structured P2P Systems
Jun 2011
Large Peer-To-Peer (P2P) systems for file transfer exhibit the presence of communities based on semantic, geographic, or organizational interests of users. Generally, resources commonly shared...
Provided by Colorado State University
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White Papers
IPv6: Now You See Me, Now You Don't
Jul 2011
Current implementations of the Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) use StateLess Address Auto Configuration (SLAAC) to assign network addresses to hosts. This technique produces a static value...
Provided by IARIA
-
White Papers
Achieving Performance and Robustness in P2P Streaming Systems
Aug 2009
This paper present a thorough and homogeneous comparison of chunk and peer selection strategies suitable for mesh-based, live, P2P streaming applications. Strategies are studied in a context of...
Provided by University of Trento
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White Papers
On the Optimal Scheduling of Streaming Applications in Unstructured Meshes
Dec 2008
P2P streaming and in particular P2P support for IP-TV are becoming not only hot research topics, but also available systems and services. Fundamental to support live streaming is the guarantee of...
Provided by University of Trento
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White Papers
Bayesian-Inference Based Recommendation in Online Social Networks
Dec 2010
In this paper, the authors propose a Bayesian-inference based recommendation system for online social networks. In their system, users share their content ratings with friends. The rating...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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White Papers
Fault Tolerant Execution of Transactional Composite Web Services: An Approach
Nov 2011
The authors propose an approach for efficient, fault tolerant, and correct distributed execution of Transactional Composite Web Services (TCWSS), based on Colored Petri-Net (CPN) formalism. They...
Provided by IARIA
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White Papers
Is the Mashup Technology Mature for Its Application in an Institutional Website?
Jul 2011
Web design for general-purpose websites today requires framework software infrastructure built from different components. Among web server software as the front-end needed to process HTTP/HTTPS...
Provided by IARIA
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White Papers
An Ontology-Based Reperesentation of the Google+ API
Apr 2012
Social Networking Services (SNS) provide users with functionalities for developing their on line social networks, connecting with other users, sharing and consuming content. While most of popular...
Provided by IARIA
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White Papers
Web Log Mining: An Enhancement to Server Performance and Sight Navigation
May 2012
The aim of discovering frequent patterns in Web log data is to obtain information about the navigational behavior of the users. Web Server register a log entry for every single access they get. A...
Provided by Universal Association of Computer and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Controlling Free Riding Using Extended Point Based Incentive Mechanism in Peer-to-Peer Networks
Apr 2012
Over the years of the emergence of peer-to-peer systems a phenomenon named 'Free Riding' has affected its performance and become a serious threat to be resolved. Free riding phenomenon was first...
Provided by Universal Association of Computer and Electronics Engineers
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Web Server Optimization: A DNS Based Approach
Apr 2012
A group of web-server system can be deployed to support high request rate. The Domain Name System (DNS) servers act as a mediator between the client and web-servers. It dispatches the client...
Provided by Universal Association of Computer and Electronics Engineers
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Webcasts
Gary Kovacs: Tracking the Trackers
May 2012
In this webcast, the presenter explains about Web tracking. The Web tracking is not 100% evil - personal data can make one browsing more efficient; cookies can help one favorite websites stay in...
Provided by Ted
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Podcasts
Scott Davis, Perhaps the Grooviest Guy on Earth, Shifts His Spotlight and Discusses HTML5
Jan 2011
In this podcast, the speaker explains about HTML 5. First, the speaker says about his one of the first public websites implemented and has been actively working with the technology ever since....
Provided by IBM
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Podcasts
New Directions in Enterprise Content Management
Jan 2012
In this podcast, the speaker talks about Enterprise Content Management (ECM). The speaker also discusses about ECM and the connections between collaborative activities and content, as the speaker...
Provided by EMC
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Case Studies
Leading Service Provider and Cisco IBSG Partner to "Make the Market" for Managed Telepresence Services
Feb 2011
The customer is one of the world's largest telecommunications companies and recognized as a leading provider of IP-based worldwide communications services. Their challenge that SP looking to grow...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
Handling Very Large Numbers of Messages in Distributed Hash Tables
Dec 2008
In this paper, the authors have provided an extensive study about congestion control for DHTs. They have demonstrated in analysis that congestion control in DHTs is essential for applications that...
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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An Agent-Based Model for the Evolution of the Internet Ecosystem
Jan 2012
The authors propose an agent-based model for the evolution of the Internet ecosystem. They model networks in the Internet as selfish agents, each of which tries to maximize a certain utility...
Provided by Georgia Institute of Technology
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Using Digital Fountains in Future IPTV Streaming Platforms: A Future Perspective
May 2012
Coding techniques are progressively succeeding in finding a beneficial use throughout all the components of advanced multimedia streaming networks, including Peer-To-Peer (P2P) content...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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White Papers
Analysis of Compute Vs Retrieve Intensive Web Applications and Its Impact on the Performance of a Web Server
Dec 2011
The World Wide Web (WWW) has undergone remarkable change over the past few years, placing substantially heavy load on Web servers. Today's web servers host web applications that demand high...
Provided by The International Journal of Advanced Networking and Applications
