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SIGMOD
2012
ACM
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Dynamic management of resources and workloads for RDBMS in cloud: a control-theoretic approach
As cloud computing environments become explosively popular, dealing with unpredictable changes, uncertainties, and disturbances in both systems and environments turns out to be on...
Pengcheng Xiong
SIGSOFT
2007
ACM
16 years 18 days ago
Model checking service compositions under resource constraints
When enacting a web service orchestration defined using the Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) we observed various safety property violations. This surprised us considerab...
David S. Rosenblum, Howard Foster, Jeff Kramer, Je...
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WWW
2005
ACM
16 years 16 days ago
A convenient method for securely managing passwords
Computer users are asked to generate, keep secret, and recall an increasing number of passwords for uses including host accounts, email servers, e-commerce sites, and online finan...
J. Alex Halderman, Brent Waters, Edward W. Felten
MOBISYS
2009
ACM
16 years 12 days ago
Predictive methods for improved vehicular WiFi access
With the proliferation of WiFi technology, many WiFi networks are accessible from vehicles on the road making vehicular WiFi access realistic. However, several challenges exist: l...
Pralhad Deshpande, Anand Kashyap, Chul Sung, Samir...
MOBIHOC
2009
ACM
16 years 12 days ago
Fault tolerant target tracking in sensor networks
In this paper, we present a Gaussian mixture model based approach to capture the spatial characteristics of any target signal in a sensor network, and further propose a temporally...
Min Ding, Xiuzhen Cheng