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SIGMOD
2002
ACM
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14 years 8 months ago
Minimal probing: supporting expensive predicates for top-k queries
This paper addresses the problem of evaluating ranked top-? queries with expensive predicates. As major DBMSs now all support expensive user-defined predicates for Boolean queries...
Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang, Seung-won Hwang
ICCCN
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
A Structured Hardware/Software Architecture for Embedded Sensor Nodes
—Owing to the limited requirement for sensor processing in early networked sensor nodes, embedded software was generally built around the communication stack. Modern sensor nodes...
Geoff V. Merrett, Alex S. Weddell, Nick R. Harris,...
SRDS
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Systematic Structural Testing of Firewall Policies
Firewalls are the mainstay of enterprise security and the most widely adopted technology for protecting private networks. As the quality of protection provided by a firewall dire...
JeeHyun Hwang, Tao Xie, Fei Chen, Alex X. Liu
SUTC
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Using Body Sensor Networks for Increased Safety in Bomb Disposal Missions
Bomb disposal manned missions are inherently safetycritical. Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) technology potentially offers an opportunity to increase the safety of the operatives in...
John Kemp, Elena I. Gaura, James Brusey, C. Dougla...
IPPS
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Fault-Tolerant Parallel Applications with Dynamic Parallel Schedules
Commodity computer clusters are often composed of hundreds of computing nodes. These generally off-the-shelf systems are not designed for high reliability. Node failures therefore...
Sebastian Gerlach, Roger D. Hersch