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RSS paper proposesService Level Agreement Specification, Compliance Prediction and Monitoring With Performance Trees
White Paper To address these issues, the paper proposes the use of the Performance Tree formalism for the specification and monitoring of Service Level Agreements (SLAs). The paper also... [12 Nov 2009]
Counterattacking the Packers
White Paper This paper proposes a multi-dimensional attempt to be carried by the anti-virus industry in order to stop the spread of bespoke packers written specifically to conceal malware. Despite the fact that... [12 Nov 2009]
A Policy-Based Middleware for Web Services SLA Negotiation
White Paper The paper proposes a Negotiation Broker (NB) middleware framework to facilitate automated negotiations of SLAs for Web services in a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Negotiation of Service Level... [12 Nov 2009]
Service Level Agreement Based Grid Scheduling
White Paper The paper proposes a deviation based resource ordering algorithm (DRS) that orders and selects the resources for negotiation based on their deviation value computed from the parameters in the job request... [12 Nov 2009]
Increasing SIP Firewall Performance by Ruleset Size Limitation
White Paper This paper proposes a scheme to increase IDS firewall performance by merging several similar rules into more general ones and ignoring lesser relevant rules to limit the number of firewall rules. To... [12 Nov 2009]
Wireless Digital Audio Quality for Portable Audio Applications
White Paper This paper has discussed the various factors in a wireless audio solution that affect audio quality, and proposes minimum requirements for some of the key technology selection considerations. This... [12 Nov 2009]
A Realistic Transition Toward the "Paperless" Medical Practice
White Paper This paper explores the issues related to reducing paper dependence in ambulatory care settings and proposes reasonable steps that can be taken now. One of the most critical steps is to... [11 Nov 2009]
Pushing Enterprise Security Down the Network Stack
White Paper This paper proposes a proactive approach to securing networks, whereby security-related actions (e.g.dropping or redirecting traffic) are embedded into the network fabric itself, leaving only a fixed set... [11 Nov 2009]
Automatic Verification of Firewall Configurations With Respect to Security Policy Requirements
White Paper This paper proposes an automatic method to verify the correctness of firewall configurations with respect to security policies. The paper defines Boolean formulae to represent security... [11 Nov 2009]
A Social Mechanism for Supporting Home Computer Security
White Paper The paper proposes a social firewall that collects security decisions and both user and usage characteristics, and provides users with personalized information to assist with allow/deny recommendations. [11 Nov 2009]
Selective Alerts for Runtime Protection of Distributed Systems
White Paper In order to improve the efficacy of attack detection and reduce the amount of false positives, the paper proposes a novel scheme for runtime alert management. Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS)... [11 Nov 2009]
Promoting Security Policy Longevity
White Paper This paper examines what is necessary to plan for Information Systems Security Policy, and proposes a methodology that focuses on promoting the longevity of the policy by establishing a life-cycle of... [11 Nov 2009]
End-to-End Security for Enterprise Mashups
White Paper The paper provides an extension to the language and runtime and proposes a Secure Authentication Service (SAS) to seamlessly facilitate secure authentication and authorization of end-users with the... [11 Nov 2009]
Smooth Transition: Preparing for IFRS
White Paper This white paper covers how to effectively managing the this upcoming transition to IFRS. The SEC proposes that 2014 be the first year for US registered companies to file their financial statements in... [30 Oct 2009]
AdaRank: A Boosting Algorithm for Information Retrieval
White Paper To deal with the problem, this paper proposes a novel learning algorithm within the framework of boosting, which can minimize a loss function directly defined on the performance measures. The goodness of... [30 Oct 2009]
