October 2007

Oct
31

links for 2007-10-31

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Oct
27

No Freebird on Guitar Hero! [Flickr]

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Oct
22

Managing ACLs in a distributed system

HPL-2007-171 Managing ACLs in a distributed system - Bhatt, Sandeep; Horne, Bill; Rajagopalan, S.; Rao, Prasad
Keyword(s): access control, validation, configuration generation, end-to-end requirements
Abstract: Managing access control in a distributed system is a challenge. Components across the technology stack - network devices, infrastructure servers, and software applications - contain access control lists. Managing these ACLs requires skilled administrators, often from different organizations and at d ...
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Oct
22

Manually generated representative image thumbnails

HPL-2007-169 Manually generated representative image thumbnails - Bausk, Brett; Samadani, Ramin
Keyword(s): image resampling, image resizing, image search and browsing, thumbnails
Abstract: How would you best represent a high resolution original image given a fixed number of pixels for an image thumbnail? Is it possible to create better thumbnails than the standard computer-generated thumbnails that apply filtering and subsampling? In this report, these questions are addressed by manua ...
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Oct
22

CACTI 5.0

HPL-2007-167 CACTI 5.0 - Thoziyoor, Shyamkumar; Muralimanohar, Naveen; Jouppi, Norman P.
Keyword(s): cache, memory, area, power, access time
Abstract: CACTI 5.0 is the latest major revision of the CACTI tool for modeling the dynamic power, access time, area, and leakage power of caches and other memories. CACTI 5.0 includes a number of major improvements over CACTI 4.0. First, as fabrication technologies enter the deep-submicron era, device and pr ...
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Oct
22

Normann’s Crane 2.0 Operationalising Service Systems co-design

HPL-2007-160 Normann's Crane 2.0 Operationalising Service Systems co-design - Taylor, Richard; Tofts, Chris
Keyword(s): service system; co-design; model; SLA
Abstract: Service development and delivery is by its very nature an activity that requires cooperation between suppliers and customers. This cooperation does not imply or require parity between the parties. In any such relationship parties divide responsibilities based on a perception of self-competency and s ...
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Oct
22

Monitoring and execution for contract compliance

HPL-2001-261 (R.1) Monitoring and execution for contract compliance - Sailer, Martin; Morciniec, Michal
Keyword(s): electronic commerce; e-contract; business processes
Abstract: Real world interactions between businesses are governed by contracts that define rights and obligations of parties. Electronic contract structures the information contained in textual contract so that it can be used to automate certain aspects of contracting process. In this report we focus on the c ...
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Oct
19

Feature of the Week: New URL schemes

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Oct
18

Parsing Images of Roadside Scenes

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Oct
18

Approximating Aggregate Queries about Web Pages via Random Walks

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