The "conversion rate" of spam -- the probability that an unsolicited e-mail will ultimately elicit a "sale" -- underlies the entire spam value proposition. How...
Chris Kanich, Christian Kreibich, Kirill Levchenko...
-- During the last 20 years, complexity has been an interesting topic that has been investigated in many fields of science, such as biology, neurology, software engineering, chemis...
The excessive complexity of both machine architectures and applications have made it difficult for compilers to statically model and predict application behavior. This observatio...
Qing Yi, Keith Seymour, Haihang You, Richard W. Vu...
This work provides a generalization of the traditional response surface methodology (RSM) that can be applied to complex, multi-objective simulation studies. These problems involv...
ThunderDome is a system for collaboratively measuring upload bandwidths in ad-hoc peer-to-peer systems. It works by scheduling bandwidth probes between pairs of hosts, wherein eac...
John R. Douceur, James W. Mickens, Thomas Moscibro...