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A Metaheuristic for Autonomous and Self-Organizing Consensus Formation Inspired by Honey Bee Nest Site Selection Behavior
(2014-12-04)
This research presents a self-organizing system for engineering consensus among cooperating, distributed processes and studying consensus negotiation in natural systems that use the quorum sensing mechanism. The presented ...
Adaptive Rate Control based on Collision and Frame Aggregation Awareness
(2014-06-23)
The innovative advances in mobile technologies have facilitated remarkable growth in the use of mobile devices such as smart phones, e-book readers, and tablet PCs. Since a significant amount of wireless traffic is generated ...
A Survey of Android App Quality Using Third Party Markets
(2014-11-06)
Since its inception, the smart phone has quickly become one of the most ubiquitous technological artifacts in today’s society. In the first quarter of 2014, 281.5 million units were shipped. This was a 28.6 percent ...
Proactive Thermal-Aware Scheduling
(2014-12-15)
Modern CPU’s cut-off operations when CPU temperature reaches a predetermined threshold making the CPU unavailable for all processes. Furthermore, operating the CPU for extended periods at temperatures close to, but slightly ...
Discovering Vulnerabilities In The Wild: An Empirical Study
(2014-12-11)
There is little or no information available on what actually happens when a software vulnerability is detected. We performed an empirical study on reporters of the three most prominent security vulnerabilities: buffer ...
Odinn: An In-Vivo Hypervisor-based Intrusion Detection System for the Cloud
(2014-06-18)
Cloud computing has emerged as the de facto service model for modern enterprises;
however, security concerns remain a major impediment to full-scale adoption. Concurrent
to this paradigm shift looms another concern that ...
iTad: An I/O-Aware Thermal Model for Data Centers
(2014-05-08)
With the ever-growing cooling costs of large-scale data centers, thermal management
must be adequately addressed. Thermal models can play a critical role in thermal management
that helps in reducing cooling costs in data ...
Social Networking and Culturally Situated Design Teaching Tools: Providing a Socially Interactive Computer Supported Collaborative Network Environment for K-12
(2014-03-20)
Culturally Situated Design Tools (CSDTs) are web-based software applications that allow students to create simulations of cultural arts: Native American beadwork, African American cornrow hairstyles, urban graffiti, and ...
A Framework for Universal Problem Resolution with Continuous Improvement
(2014-05-01)
This dissertation outlines a universal problem resolution framework implementing reasoning and improvement capabilities exhibited by human beings. The work reviews literature concerning major differentiations of human ...
RTAH: Resource and Thermal Aware Hadoop
(2014-07-02)
The amount of unstructured data, also known as Big Data in Internet is growing every
day. Because the Big data is unstructured, a large-scale distributed batch processing infrastructure
like Hadoop is used instead of ...