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SIGCOMM
2010
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Fived: a service-based architecture implementation to innovate at the endpoints
Security functions such as access control, encryption and authentication are typically left up to applications on the modern Internet. There is no unified system to implement thes...
D. J. Capelis, Darrell D. E. Long
SYSTOR
2010
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Empirical quantification of opportunities for content adaptation in web servers
A basic problem in the management of web servers is capacity planning: you want enough capacity to be able to serve peak loads, but not too much so as to avoid excessive costs. It...
Michael Gopshtein, Dror G. Feitelson
CORR
2008
Springer
95views Education» more  CORR 2008»
15 years 6 months ago
An Indirect Genetic Algorithm for a Nurse Scheduling Problem
This paper describes a Genetic Algorithms approach to a manpower-scheduling problem arising at a major UK hospital. Although Genetic Algorithms have been successfully used for sim...
Uwe Aickelin, Kathryn A. Dowsland
IEE
2008
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15 years 5 months ago
Reducing the use of nullable types through non-null by default and monotonic non-null
With Java 5 annotations, we note a marked increase in tools that can statically detect potential null dereferences. To be effective such tools require that developers annotate decl...
Patrice Chalin, Perry R. James, Frédé...
CORR
2006
Springer
87views Education» more  CORR 2006»
15 years 5 months ago
Pseudorandomness and Combinatorial Constructions
Abstract. In combinatorics, the probabilistic method is a very powerful tool to prove the existence of combinatorial objects with interesting and useful properties. Explicit constr...
Luca Trevisan