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FLAIRS
2008
13 years 9 months ago
A First-Order Bayesian Tool for Probabilistic Ontologies
One of the major weaknesses of current research on the Semantic Web (SW) is the lack of proper means to represent and reason with uncertainty. A number of recent efforts from the ...
Paulo Cesar G. da Costa, Marcelo Ladeira, Rommel N...
NSDI
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Beyond Pilots: Keeping Rural Wireless Networks Alive
Very few computer systems that have been deployed in rural developing regions manage to stay operationally sustainable over the long term; most systems do not go beyond the pilot ...
Sonesh Surana, Rabin K. Patra, Sergiu Nedevschi, M...
NSDI
2008
13 years 9 months ago
DieCast: Testing Distributed Systems with an Accurate Scale Model
Large-scale network services can consist of tens of thousands of machines running thousands of unique software configurations spread across hundreds of physical networks. Testing ...
Diwaker Gupta, Kashi Venkatesh Vishwanath, Amin Va...
USENIX
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Protection Strategies for Direct Access to Virtualized I/O Devices
Commodity virtual machine monitors forbid direct access to I/O devices by untrusted guest operating systems in order to provide protection and sharing. However, both I/O memory ma...
Paul Willmann, Scott Rixner, Alan L. Cox
WSC
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Introducing age-based parameters into simulations of crowd dymanics
Very few crowds consist of individuals who are exactly the same. Defining variables, such as age, and how they affect an individual's movement, could increase realism in simu...
D. J. Kaup, Thomas L. Clarke, Rex Oleson, Linda C....