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Revisiting hBFT: Speculative Byzantine Fault Tolerance with Minimum Cost
(2019-02-25)FaB Paxos sets a lower bound of 5f + 1 replicas for any two-step consensus protocols tolerating f byzantine failures. Yet, hBFT promises a two-step consensus protocol with only 3f + 1 replicas. As a result, it violates ... -
Cognitively Rich Framework to Automate Extraction and Representation of Legal Knowledge
With the explosive growth in cloud based services, businesses are increasingly maintaining large datasets containing information about their consumers to provide a seamless user experience. To ensure privacy and secu- rity ... -
Analyzing False Positive Source Code Vulnerabilities Using Static Analysis Tools
(IEEE, 2019-01-24)Static source code analysis for the detection of vulnerabilities may generate a huge amount of results making it difficult to manually verify all of them. In addition, static code analysis yields a large number of false ... -
Automating Privacy Compliance Using Policy Integrated Blockchain
(MDPI, 2019-02-05)An essential requirement of any information management system is to protect data and resources against breach or improper modifications, while at the same time ensuring data access to legitimate users. Systems handling ... -
An Examination of Vote Verification Technologies: Findings and Experiences from the Maryland Study
(2006-04-15)We describe our findings and experiences from our technical review of vote verification systems for the Maryland State Board of Elections (SBE). The review included the following four systems for possible use together ... -
HappyFeet: Challenges in Building an Automated Dance Recognition and Assessment Tool
(ACM, 2018-09)In this paper, we discuss our experience in building an automated dance assessment tool with IMU and IoT devices and highlight the major challenges of such an endeavor. In a typical dance classroom scenario, where the ... -
Estimating Buildings’ Parameters over Time Including Prior Knowledge
(2019-02-04)Modeling buildings’ heat dynamics is a complex process which depends on various factors including weather, building thermal capacity, insulation preservation, and residents’ behavior. Graybox models offer an explanation ... -
Analysis of Data Mining Algorithms
(1997-03-30)A comparative study of algorithms used in Data Mining. This paper was written as part of the MS course work for Advanced Algorithms. -
On Mining Web Access Logs
(1999-10-24)The proliferation of information on the world wide web has made the personalization of this information space a necessity. One possible approach to web personalization is to mine typical user profiles from the vast amount ... -
Communicating neural network knowledge between agents in a simulated aerial reconnaissance system
(IEEE, 1999-10-03)In order to maintain their performance in a dynamic environment, agents may be required to modify their learning behavior during run-time. If an agent utilizes a rule-based system for learning, new rules may be easily ... -
Warehousing and Mining Web Logs
(ACM, 1999-11-02)Analyzing Web Logs for usage and access trends can not only provide important information to web site developers and administrators, but also help in creating adaptive web sites. While there are many existing tools that ... -
How the Semantic Web is Being Used:An Analysis of FOAF Documents
(2005-01-03)Semantic Web researchers have initially focused on the representation, development and use of ontologies but paid less attention to the social and structural relationships involved. The past year has seen a dramatic increase ... -
A Framework for Relating Frontstage and Backstage Quality in Virtualized Services
(University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 2009-05-20)Virtualized service models are now emerging and redefining the way Information technology is delivered to end users. In this paper, we propose a framework to measure and track quality delivered by a Virtualized service ... -
A Content-Analysis Approach for Exploring Usability Problems in a Collaborative Virtual Environment
(Acta Polytechnica Hungarica, 2018)As Virtual Reality (VR) products are becoming more widely available in the consumer market, improving the usability of these devices and environments is crucial. In this paper, we are going to introduce a framework for the ... -
Determining value co-creation opportunity in B2B services
(IEEE, 2011-03-30)In Business to Business (B2B) IT outsourcing contracts service providers have to demonstrate value continuously to retain client loyalty. However, sustained value can only be co-created by both service providers and clients ... -
An Integrated Knowledge Graph to Automate GDPR and PCI DSS Compliance
(IEEE, 2018-12-11)Big data analytics related to consumer behavior, market analysis, opinions, and recommendation often deal with end user's derived and inferred data, along with the observed data. To ensure consumer data protection, rules ... -
Integrated Lifecycle of IT Services in a Cloud Environment
(2009-10-22)Virtualized Service models are now emerging and redefining the way information technology is delivered to end users. Current research is focused on specific pieces like service discovery, composition etc. There is no ...
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