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- Data Protection and Data Sharing in Telematics
- Automotive telematics may be defined as the information-intensive applications enabled for vehicles by a combination of telecommunications and computing technology. Telematics by its nature requires the capture, storage, and exchange of sensor data to obtain remote services. Such data likely include personal, sensitive information, which require proper handling to protect...
- Tags: Data Protection, Telematics, Springer Science+Business Media, Data Sharing, Policy Manager, Manufacturing
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- High-Performance Agent System for Intrusion Detection in Backbone Networks
- This paper presents a design of high-performance agent-based intrusion detection system designed for deployment on high-speed network links. To match the speed requirements, wire-speed data acquisition layer is based on hardware-accelerated NetFlow like probe, which provides overview of current network traffic. The data is then processed by detection agents that...
- Tags: Backbone, Intrusion Detection, Network, Agent, High-performance, Springer Science+Business Media, Real Estate, Networking, Business Operations
- White papers 2007-07-27
- An Approach to a Trustworthy System Architecture Using Virtualization
- This paper presents a system architecture for trusted transactions in highly sensitive environments. This architecture takes advantage of techniques provided by the Trusted Computing Group TCG to attest the system state of the communication partners, to guarantee that the system is free of malware and that its software has not...
- Tags: Attestation, Springer Science+Business Media, Trusted Platform Module, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage
- White papers 2007-08-11
- Architectural Decisions and Patterns for Transactional Workflows in SOA
- An important architectural style for constructing enterprise applications is to use transactional workflows in SOA. In this setting, workflow activities invoke distributed services in a coordinated manner, using transaction context-propagating messages, coordination protocols, and compensation logic. Designing such transactional workflows is a time-consuming and error-prone task requiring deep subject matter...
- Tags: Compensation, SOA, Workflow, Springer Science+Business Media, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Process Improvement, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Quality, Business Operations
- White papers 2007-07-31
- Extending Ruby on Rails for Semantic Web Applications
- This paper extends the Ruby on Rails framework towards a more complete Semantic Web application framework. The SWORD plugin pro-vides developers with a set of tools and libraries for managing Semantic Web data and rapid Semantic Web Application development. This paper describes the functionality of the SWORD plugin and demonstrates...
- Tags: Ruby, Springer Science+Business Media, Semantic Web, Ruby On Rails, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development
- White papers 2007-05-26
- Shape Analysis for Composite Data Structures
- This paper proposes a shape analysis that adapts to some of the complex composite data structures found in industrial systems-level programs. Examples of such data structures include "Cyclic doubly-linked lists of acyclic singly-linked lists", "Singly-linked lists of cyclic doubly-linked lists with back-pointers to head nodes", etc. The analysis introduces the...
- Tags: Predicate, Springer Science+Business Media, Analysis, Data Structure
- White papers 2007-05-11
- Application of Visual Programming to Web Mash Up Development
- The ongoing adoption of the latest Web development patterns such as AJAX is helping to enhance the user experience on the Web. Moreover, there is now API-based support from various vendors that allow seamless fusion of disparate data sources into a single application. However, the barrier for Web designers to...
- Tags: Web, Web Application, Springer Science+Business Media, Programming, Channel Management, Marketing
- White papers 2007-05-03
- TCP Over CDMA2000 Networks: A Cross-Layer Measurement Study
- Modern cellular channels in 3G networks incorporate sophisticated power control and dynamic rate adaptation which can have a significant impact on adaptive transport layer protocols, such as TCP. Though there exists studies that have evaluated the performance of TCP over such networks, they are based solely on observations at the...
- Tags: Network, TCP, Springer Science+Business Media, Tcp/Ip, Networking
- White papers 2007-02-09
- SBQ: A Simple Scheduler for Fair Bandwidth Sharing Between Unicast and Multicast Flows
- This paper proposes a simple scheduler called SBQ (Service-Based Queuing) to share the bandwidth fairly between unicast and multicast flows according to a new definition of fairness referred as the inter-service fairness. The paper utilizes the recently proposed active queue management mechanisms MFQ Multicast Fair Queuing to fairly share the...
- Tags: Bandwidth, Springer Science+Business Media, Fairness
- White papers 2007-01-01
- Distributing Security-Mediated PKI
- The security-mediated approach to PKI offers several advantages, such as instant revocation and compatibility with standard RSA tools. This paper presents a design and prototype that addresses its trust and scalability problems. It uses trusted computing platforms linked with peer-to-peer networks to create a network of trustworthy mediators and improve...
- Tags: Trusted Computing, Scalability, Springer Science+Business Media, Threshold Cryptography, PKI, Digital Security, Security
- White papers 2005-07-19
- Forms2Net - Migrating Oracle Forms to Microsoft .NET
- Forms2Net is an ATX Software commercial reengineering tool that automatically converts Oracle Forms applications to the equivalent .NET (C#) ones, with approximately 75% rate of automatic conversion. From the reengineering and transformation theoretical viewpoint, Forms2Net falls in the general category of language-platform conversion tools. This paper presents the important practical...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Oracle Forms, Microsoft Corp., Re-engineering, Springer Science+Business Media, Forms2Net, Organizational Structure, .Net, Application Servers, Middleware, Human Resources, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2006-11-01
- MAP: Medial Axis Based Geometric Routing in Sensor Networks
- One of the challenging tasks in the deployment of dense wireless networks like sensor networks is in devising a routing scheme for node to node communication. Important consideration includes scalability, routing complexity, quality of communication paths and the load sharing of the routes. This paper shows that a compact and...
- Tags: Network, Axis, Sensor, Springer Science+Business Media, Consideration, Networking
- White papers 2006-10-23
- Cost-Sensitive Learning of SVM for Ranking
- This paper proposes a new method for learning to rank. 'Ranking SVM' is a method for performing the task. It formulizes the problem as that of binary classification on instance pairs and performs the classification by means of Support Vector Machines SVM. In Ranking SVM, the losses for incorrect classifications...
- Tags: Springer Science+Business Media, Classification
- White papers 2006-09-18
- Towards Next Generation CiteSeer: A Flexible Architecture for Digital Library Deployment
- CiteSeer began as the first search engine for scientific literature to incorporate Autonomous Citation Indexing, and has since grown to be a well-used, open archive for computer and information science publications, currently indexing over 730,000 academic documents. However, CiteSeer faces significant challenges that must be overcome in order to improve...
- Tags: Deployment, Springer Science+Business Media, Network Technology, Networking
- White papers 2006-09-03
- Information Marginalization on Subgraphs
- Real-world data often involves objects that exhibit multiple relationships. This paper presents a simple, unified mechanism for incorporating information from multiple object types and relations when learning on a targeted subset. In this scheme, all sources of relevant information are marginalized onto the target subclass via random walks. The paper...
- Tags: Walk, Springer Science+Business Media, Productivity, Engineering, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- White papers 2006-08-03
- Efficient Resource Allocation for Policy-Based Wireless/Wireline Interworking
- This paper proposes efficient resource allocation techniques for a policy-based wireless/wireline interworking architecture, where Quality of Service QoS provisioning and resource allocation is driven by the Service Level Agreement SLA. For end-to-end IP QoS delivery, each wireless access domain can independently choose its internal resource management policies to guarantee the...
- Tags: Resource Allocation, Policy, Domain, Allocation, Springer Science+Business Media, Service Level Management, Wi-Fi, Wireless, It Operations, It service Management
- White papers 2006-05-23
- A Scalable, Power-Efficient Broadcast Algorithm for Wireless Networks
- Scalability and power-efficiency are two of the most important design challenges in wireless ad hoc networks. This paper presents a scalable, power-efficient broadcast algorithm for wireless ad hoc networks. The paper first investigates the trade-off between reaching more nodes in a single hop using higher transmission power and reaching fewer...
- Tags: Algorithm, Fault-tolerance, Network, Topology, Springer Science+Business Media, Wireless Network, BLSS, Engineering, Wi-Fi, Wireless
- White papers 2006-05-08
- Using SVM to Extract Acronyms From Text
- This paper addresses the problem of extracting acronyms and their expansions from text. The paper proposes a Support Vector Machines SVM based approach to deal with the problem. First, all likely acronyms are identified using heuristic rules. Second, expansion candidates are generated from surrounding text of acronyms. Last, SVM model...
- Tags: Acronym, Springer Science+Business Media
- White papers 2006-04-07
- User Centred Rapid Application Development
- This paper describes the experiences modifying the Rapid Application Development methodology for rapid system development to design a data gathering system for mobile fieldworkers using handheld computers in harsh environmental conditions. This development process, authors integrated User-Centred Design as an explicit stage in the Rapid Application Development RAD software engineering...
- Tags: Software, Software Engineering, Mobile, RAD, Springer Science+Business Media, Tools & Techniques, Management
- White papers 2006-03-15
- A Comparative Study of Energy Minimization Methods for Markov Random Fields
- One of the most exciting advances in early vision has been the development of efficient energy minimization algorithms. Many early vision tasks require labeling each pixel with some quantity such as depth or texture. While many such problems can be elegantly expressed in the language of Markov Random Fields (MRF's),...
- Tags: Algorithm, Vision, Springer Science+Business Media, Engineering, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2006-03-03
