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Teaching operating systems: student assignments and the software engineering perspective: ICSE 2008
Babka et al. describe their experience of transforming an operating systems (OS) course. The main issue is the tool used for practical assignments: originally, an instructional software called Not... more
Computer & Inf. Sci. Educ. (K.3.2) | Jul 18 08
Active behavioral fingerprinting of wireless devices: WiSec ’08
Fingerprinting for wireless devices, especially for those using 802.11 series standards, has a wide variety of targets and approaches. Is there any approach that exploits the stimulus-response nature... more
Network Architecture & Design (C.2.1) | Jul 18 08
Anatomy of high-performance matrix multiplication: ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software
“How hard can it be to implement matrix multiply?” One can imagine an irascible reader asking that of this 25-page paper, but it is the wrong question. This paper addresses the implementation of matrix... more
Efficiency (G.4...) | Jul 17 08
Communicating requirements for business: UML or problem frames?: ICSE 2008
Which of the unified modeling language (UML) or problem frames (PF) methods better communicates problem domains and allows users to more exhaustively derive requirements for... more
General (H.1.0) | Jul 17 08
Task mapping and priority assignment for soft real-time applications under deadline miss ratio constraints: ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems
Task mapping and priority assignment are critical to the efficiency of distributed multiprocessor systems. This paper presents a scheduling policy to perform these actions. The proposed method considers... more
General (B.8.0) | Jul 16 08
Incremental discovery of object parts in video sequences: Computer Vision and Image Understanding
Given a video and a segmentation algorithm, how does one reconstruct the foreground object from consecutive frames without having any predefined models? This paper... more
Video Analysis (I.2.10...) | Jul 16 08
Publish/subscribe architecture for mobile ad hoc networks: SAC ’08
The publish/subscribe (P/S) communication paradigm is increasingly gaining attention. This is due to the rise of event-driven service-oriented architecture (SOA), with its enterprise service bus (ESB)... more
Network Architecture And Design (C.2.1) | Jul 15 08
Enabling multimedia using resource-constrained video processing techniques: a node-centric perspective: ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems
The problem of video object tracking in a multi-camera scenario, where the cameras and the associated video processing nodes have power constraints, is covered in this paper. The basic application scenario is... more
Sampling (I.4.1...) | Jul 14 08
On two coloring problems in mixed graphs: European Journal of Combinatorics
When faced with nondeterministic polynomial-time (NP) hard graph optimization problems, researchers naturally look for special graph classes that are polynomially solvable. In so doing, they may... more
Graph Theory (G.2.2) | Jul 14 08
Privacy and technology: folk definitions and perspectives: CHI ’08
A total of 32 people were involved in this study. Of these, 26 were students at Georgia Institute of Technology and six were older females, with ages ranging from 65 to 80. The authors intend to... more
Privacy (K.4.1...) | Jul 14 08
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Combinatorial methods with applications
Have you ever wondered why books on combinatorial methods attract more and more computer-science (CS) readers? The answer lies in the fact that these methods have been proved critical to the construction... more
Combinatorics (G.2.1) | Jul 18 08
Presentation Zen: simple ideas on presentation design and delivery
“Death by PowerPoint” is an expression that has been used alarmingly frequently over the last couple of years, and rightly so. The number of PowerPoint presentations that bore one to death through the use of bullet points and common themes... more
Powerpoint (K.8.1...) | Jul 18 08
Understanding planning tasks: domain complexity and heuristic decomposition (LNCS 4529)
The International Planning Competition (IPC), which started in 1998, has subsequently been held biennially, and has provided a focus for much recent work in planning. One major outcome from the competitions has been the provision of a substantial... more
Plan Execution ... Generation (I.2.8...) | Jul 18 08
Queueing modelling fundamentals: with applications in communication networks
Queueing theory is an intricate and yet highly practical field of mathematical study that has vast applications in performance evaluation. This is the second... more
Queueing Theory (G.3...) | Jul 17 08
Constraint logic programming using ECLiPSe
This is a handbook for topical undergraduate and graduate courses that teach algorithmic problem solving using constraint optimization and logic programming. Apt and Wallace take the reader through a journey of understanding the formal... more
Logic Programming (D.1.6) | Jul 17 08
Correlative learning: a basis for brain and adaptive systems
Computational neuroscience is an active field of study, spanning the traditional fields of biological neuroscience, electrical engineering, and computer science (CS). Although it has yet to achieve much by way of concrete applications that bring... more
Connectionism & Neural Nets (I.2.6...) | Jul 17 08
Creating cool Mindstorms NXT robots
In just a few years, we have another Lego book. In 2001, Martin’s book [1] offered, for the first time, a different way of learning engineering concepts. That book was based on the “Lego Technic” and on the first prototype of the “programmable brick”; it... more
Robotics (I.2.9) | Jul 16 08
Surgical scene generation for virtual reality-based training in medicine
Virtual reality (VR) training is increasingly becoming a safe and cost-effective method of modeling a variety of situations in a lifelike manner. Harders and recognized colleagues examine the main components of surgical scene generation in the context of... more
Biology And Genetics (J.3...) | Jul 16 08
Handbook of biometrics
Regardless of the reader’s motivation, browsing through this quality information will likely change one’s view of the current state of biometrics. The book is a collection of papers that can roughly be divided into three parts. The first part takes about... more
General (I.5.0) | Jul 16 08
Vulnerability analysis and defense for the Internet
The authors set out to educate the reader about the various aspects of vulnerabilities in computer networks or applications, and ways in which end users and application developers can seek to mitigate some of these risks. Chapter 1 provides a general... more
Security and Protection (C.2.0...) | Jul 15 08
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