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Reports published in 2009:

Trajcevski, Goce; Ghica, Oliviu; Shubotz, Rene; Zuniga, Marco; Scheuermann, Peter; Hauswirth, Manfred, Discrepancy And Multipath Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks,   NWU-EECS-09-18,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Choffnes, David; Bustamante, Fabian;Ge, Zihui, Using the Crowd to Monitor the Cloud: Network Event Detection from Edge Systems,   NWU-EECS-09-19,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Chen, Kai; Choffnes, David R.; Potharaju, Rahul; Chen, Yan; Bustamante, Fabian E.; Pei, Dan; Zhao, Yao, Where the Sidewalk Ends: Extending the Internet AS Graph Using Traceroutes From P2P Users,   NWU-EECS-09-16,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Tomai, Emmett, A Pragmatic Approach to Computational Narrative Understanding, NWU-EECS-09-17  ABSTRACT

Choffnes, David R.; Bustamante, Fabian E., Network Positioning From the Edge: An empirical study of the effectiveness of network positioning in P2P systems,   NWU-EECS-09-15,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Lange, John R.; Pedretti, Kevin; Hudson, Trammell; Dinda, Peter A.; Cui, Zheng; Xia, Lei; Bridges, Patrick; Jaconette, Steven;, Palacios and Kitten: High Performance Operating Systems For Scalable Virtualized and Native Supercomputing,   NWU-EECS-09-14,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Karr, Chris; Gergle, Darren, Pennyworth: A platform for building context-aware applications for everyday use, NWU-EECS-09-13  ABSTRACT

Deng, Leiwen; Kuzmanovic, Aleksandar, A Feeder-Carrier-Based Internet User Accountability Service,   NWU-EECS-09-12,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Deng, Leiwen; Kuzmanovic, Aleksandar, Towards Tussle-based Rules in Cyberspace,   NWU-EECS-09-11,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Deng, Leiwen; Kuzmanovic, Aleksandar, Sustainable Development of the Internet,   NWU-EECS-08-14,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Deng, Leiwen; Kuzmanovic, Aleksandar, Internet Politics: Resist, Die, or Exploit?,   NWU-EECS-08-15,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Klenk, Matthew E, Using Analogy to Overcome Brittleness in AI Systems,   NWU-EECS-09-09,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Rafii, Zafar; Pardo, Bryan, A Digital Reverberator controlled through Measures of the Reverberation,   NWU-EECS-09-08,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Tarzia, Stephen P.; Zhou, Hai; Dick, Robert P., Fast voltage assignment by convex-cost flow,   NWU-EECS-09-07,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Otto, John S.; Rula, John P.; Bustamante, Fabian E., C3R -- Participatory Urban Pollution Monitoring from your Car,   NWU-EECS-09-10,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Miller, J. Scott; Lange, John R.; Dinda, Peter A., EmNet: Satisfying the Individual User Through Empathic Home Networks,   NWU-EECS-09-05,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Tarzia, Stephen P.; Dick, Robert P.; Dinda, Peter A.; Memik, Gokhan, Prospects for Sonar-based Measurement of User Attentiveness,   NWU-EECS-09-06,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Choffnes, David R.; Duch, Jordi; Malmgren, Dean; Guierma, Roger; Bustamante, Fabian E.; Amaral, Luis, SwarmScreen: Privacy Through Plausible Deniability in P2P Systems,   NWU-EECS-09-04,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Yazji, Sausan; Chen, Xi; Dick, Robert P.; Scheuermann, Peter, Securing Mobile Devices via Implicit Authentication, NWU-EECS-09-02  ABSTRACT

Miller, J. Scott; Dinda, Peter A.; Dick, Robert P., GOTO Considered Helpful: A BASIC Approach To Sensor Network Node Programming,   NWU-EECS-09-01,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Choffnes, David R.; Bustamante, Fabian E., What's Wrong with Network Positioning and Where Do We Go From Here?,   NWU-EECS-09-03,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Reports published in 2008:

Zhao, Yao; Vemuri, Sagar; Chen, Jiazhen; Chen, Yan; Zhou, Hai; Fu, Zhi (Judy), Exception Trigged DoS Attacks on Wireless Networks,   NWU-EECS-08-13,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Trajcevski, Goce; Tamassia, Roberto; Ding, Hui; Scheuermann, Peter; Cruz, Isabel., Moving Convolutions and Continuous Probabilistic Nearest-Neighbor Queries for Uncertain Trajectories,   NWU-EECS-08-12,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Lange, John R.; Dinda, Peter A., An Introduction to the Palacios Virtual Machine Monitor---Version 1.0,   NWU-EECS-08-11,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Mallik, Arindam, Holistic Computer Architectures based on Application, User, and Process Characteristics, NWU-EECS-08-10  ABSTRACT

Li, Zhichun; Goyal, Anup; Chen, Yan; Paxson, Vern, Towards Situational Awareness of Large-Scale Botnet Events using Honeynets, NWU-EECS-08-08  ABSTRACT

Li, Zhichun; Xia, Gao; Tang, Yi; Chen, Yan: Liu, Bin, NetShield: Matching with a Large Vulnerability Signature Ruleset for High Performance Network Defense, NWU-EECS-08-07  ABSTRACT

Zhao, Yao; Zhu, Zhaosheng; Chen, Yan; Pei, Dan; Wang, Jia, Towards Efficient Large-Scale Network Monitoring and Diagnosis under Operational Constraints,   NWU-EECS-08-06,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Ghica, Oliviu; Trajcevski, Goce; Scheuermann, Peter; Bischoff, Zachary; Valtchanov, Nikolay, SIDnet-SWANS: A Simulator and Integrated Development Platform for Sensor Networks Applications,   NWU-EECS-08-05,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Gupta, Ashish, Black Box Methods for Inferring Parallel Applications' Properties in Virtual Environments,   NWU-EECS-08-04,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Yang, Lei; Chen, Xi; Dick, Robert P.; Shang, Li; Lekatsas, Haris, Chip Multiprocessor Cooperative Cache Compression and Migration,   NWU-EECS-08-02,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Choffnes, David R.; Bustamante, Fabian E., Taming the Torrent - A practical approach to reducing cross-ISP traffic in P2P systems, NWU-EECS-08-03  ABSTRACT

Ding, Hui; Trajcevski, Goce; Scheuermann, Peter, Efficient Similarity Join of Large Sets of Spatio-Temporal Trajectories,   NWU-EECS-08-01,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Reports published in 2007:

Paritosh, Praveen K., Back of the Envelope Reasoning for Robust Quantitative Problem Solving,   NWU-EECS-07-11,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Skalak, Michael S.; Pardo, Bryan, Speeding Music Search with a Perceptually Relevant Melodic String Metric, NWU-EECS-08-09  ABSTRACT

Liveris, Nikolaos; Zhou, Hai; Banerjee, Prithviraj, A Dynamic-Programming Algorithm for Reducing the Energy Consumption of Pipelined System-Level Streaming Applications,   NWU-EECS-07-09,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Choffnes, David R.; Bustamante, Fabian E., SideStep - An Open, Scalable Detouring Service,   NWU-EECS-07-08,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Li, Zhichun; Goyal, Anup; Chen, Yan; Kuzmanovic, Aleksandar, P2P Doctor: Measurement and Diagnosis of Misconfigured Peer-to-Peer Traffic, NWU-EECS-07-06  ABSTRACT

Deng, Leiwen; Kuzmanovic, Aleksandar; Davie, Bruce, What Lies Beneath: Understanding Internet Congestion,   NWU-EECS-07-12,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Sood, Sanjay; Owsley, Sara; Hammond, Kristian J.; Birnbaum, Larry, Reasoning Through Search: A Novel Approach to Sentiment Classification,   NWU-EECS-07-05,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Lin, Bin, Human-driven Optimization,   NWU-EECS-07-04,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Little, David; Raffensperger, David; Pardo, Bryan, Online Training of a Music Search Engine,   NWU-EECS-07-03,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Prosnitz, Benjamin, Blackbox No More: Reconstruction of Internal Virtual Machine State,   NWU-EECS-07-01,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Choffnes, David R.; Lange, John R.; Rossoff, Sam; Kuzmanovic, Aleksandar, Relative Network Positioning via CDN Redirections, NWU-EECS-07-07  ABSTRACT

Reports published in 2006:

Sundararaj, Ananth I., Automatic, Run-time and Dynamic Adaptation of Distributed Applications Executing in Virtual Environments,   NWU-EECS-06-18,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Liveris, Nikolaos; Lin, Chuan; Wang, Jia; Zhou, Hai; Banerjee, Prithviraj, Retiming for Synchronous Data Flow Graphs,   NWU-EECS-06-17,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Ozdemir, Serkan; Ku, Ja C.; Mallik, Arindam; Memik, Gokhan; Ismail, Yehea, Variable Latency Caches for Nanoscale Processor,   NWU-EECS-06-16,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Choffnes, David R.; Lange, John R.; Rossoff, Sam; Kuzmanovic, Aleksandar, On the Use of Parallel Connections in Web Browsers,   NWU-EECS-06-15,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Mallik, Arindam; Lin, Bin; Dinda, Peter A.; Memik, Gokhan; Dick, Robert P., Process and User Driven Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling,   NWU-EECS-06-11,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Rossoff, Sam; Dinda, Peter A., Prospects For Speculative Remote Display,   NWU-EECS-06-08,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Jevtic, Sasha; Kotowksy, Mat; Dick, Robert P.; Dinda, Peter A.; Dowding, Charles, Lucid Dreaming: Reliable Analog Event Detection for Energy-Constrained Applications,   NWU-EECS-06-09,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Lin, Bin; Sundararaj, Ananth I.; Dinda, Peter A., Time-sharing Parallel Applications With Performance Isolation and Control,   NWU-EECS-06-10,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Lin, Bin; Dinda, Peter A., Putting the User in Direct Control of CPU Scheduling,   NWU-EECS-06-07,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Sundararaj, Ananth I.; Sanghi, Manan; Lange, John R.; Dinda, Peter A., Hardness of Approximation and Greedy Algorithms for the Adaptation Problem in Virtual Environments,   NWU-EECS-06-06,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Sood, Sanjay; Budzik, Jay; Hammond, Kristian J., Creating Polite Agents: 5 Heuristics for User Experience Design,   NWU-EECS-06-03,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Liveris, Nikolaos; Zhou, Hai; Dick, Robert P.; Chen, Yan; Banerjee, Prithviraj, Abstraction Techniques for Model-Checking Parameterized Systems,   NWU-EECS-06-20,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Woodruff, John; Pardo, Bryan, Active Source Estimation for Improved Source Separation,   NWU-EECS-06-01,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Li, Zhichun; Wang, Lanjia; Chen, Yan; Fu, Zhi (Judy), Network-based and Attack-resilient Length Signature Generation for Zero-day Polymorphic Worms,   NWU-EECS-07-02,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Reports published in 2005:

Dinda, Peter A.; Gupta, Ashish; Lowekamp, Bruce; Sundararaj, Ananth I.; Zangrilli, Marcia, Free Network Measurement For Adaptive Virtualized Distributed Computing,   NWU-CS-05-13,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Zubek, Robert, Hierarchical Parallel Markov Models for Inetractive Social Agents,   NWU-CS-05-10,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Lu, Dong, Components of a Scalable Distributed Relational Information Service,   NWU-CS-05-09,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Cousens, Jeff; Dennis, Brian, RAIn: A System for Indexing and Archiving RSS Feeds,   NWU-CS-05-08,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Dayal, Abhinav; Woolley, Cliff; Watson, Benjamin; Luebke, David, Adaptive Frameless Rendering,   NWU-CS-05-07,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Ren, Pin; Watson, Benjamin, Histographs: Interactive Visualization of Complex Data with Graphs,   NWU-CS-05-12,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Lin, Bin; Dinda, Peter A., VSched: Mixing Batch and Interactive Virtual Machines Using Periodic Real-time Scheduling,   NWU-CS-05-06,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Choffnes, David R.; Bustamante, Fabian E., Modeling Vehicular Traffic and Mobility for Vehicular Wireless Networks,   NWU-CS-05-03,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Reports published in 2004:

Birrer, Stefan; Bustamante, Fabian E.; Chen, Yan, Can we trust ICMP-based measurements?,   NWU-CS-04-48,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Dayal, Abhinav; Woolley, Cliff; Luebke, David; Watson, Benjamin, Temporally Adaptive Frameless Rendering,   NWU-CS-04-47,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Lechner, Thomas; Watson, Benjamin; Ren, Pin; Wilensky, Uri; Tisue, Seth; Felsen, Martin, Procedural Modeling of Land Use in Cities,   NWU-CS-04-38,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Gooch, Amy; Gooch, Bruce, Enhancing Perceived Depth in Images Via Artistic Matting,   NWU-CS-04-42,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Setlur, Vidya; Takagi, Saeko; Gleicher, Michael; Raskar, Ramesh; Gooch, Bruce, Automatic Image Retargeting,   NWU-CS-04-41,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Shoykhet, Alex; Lange, Jack; Dinda, Peter A., Virtuoso: A System For Virtual Machine Marketplaces,   NWU-CS-04-39,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Chen, Yan; Beach, Aaron; Skicewicz, Jason A., Cyber Disease Monitoring with Distributed Hash Tables: A Global Peer-to-Peer Intrusion Detection System,   NWU-CS-04-40,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Birrer, Stefan; Bustamante, Fabian E., Nemo – Resilient Peer-to-Peer Multicast without the Cost,   NWU-CS-04-36,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Kuehne, Sven E., Understanding Natural Language Descriptions of Physical Phenomena,   NWU-CS-04-32,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Lu, Dong ; Sheng, Huanyuan; Dinda, Peter A., Effects and Implications of File Size/Service Time Correlation on Web Server Scheduling Policies,   NWU-CS-04-33,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Lu, Dong; Qiao, Yi; Dinda, Peter A.; Bustamante, Fabian E., Characterizing and Predicting TCP Throughput on the Wide Area Network,   NWU-CS-04-34,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Qiao, Yi; Lu, Dong; Bustamante, Fabian E.; Dinda, Peter A., Looking at the Server Side of Peer-to-Peer Systems,   NWU-CS-04-37,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Gupta, Ashish; Lin, Bin; Dinda, Peter A., A Framework And Toolkit For Understanding User Comfort With Resource Borrowing,   NWU-CS-04-28,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Cornell, Brian; Dinda, Peter A.; Bustamante, Fabian E., Wayback: A User-Level Versioning File System for Linux,   NWU-CS-04-30,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Houk, Philip A., A Strategic Game Playing Agent for FreeCiv,   NWU-CS-04-29,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Reports published in 2003:

Birrer, Stefan; Bustamante, Fabian E., Resilient Peer-to-Peer Multicast from the Ground Up,   NWU-CS-03-22,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Skicewicz, Jason A.; Dinda, Peter A., Tsunami: A Wavelet Toolkit for Distributed Systems,   NWU-CS-03-16,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Sundararaj, Ananth I.; Dinda, Peter A., Towards Virtual Networks for Virtual Machine Grid Computing,   NWU-CS-03-27,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Khoo, Aaron Boo Boon, Implementing Efficient Joint Beliefs on Multi-Robot Teams,   NWU-CS-03-20,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Flachsbart, Joshua D., Vision in Context: Using Special Purpose Routines to Achieve,   NWU-CS-03-19,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Seif El-Nasr, Magy, Automatic Expressive Lighting for Interactive Scenes,   NWU-CS-03-18,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Dinda, Peter A.; Lu, Dong, Nondeterministic Queries in a Relational Grid Information Service,   NWU-CS-03-15,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Qiao, Yi; Dinda, Peter A., Network traffic analysis, classification, and prediction,   NWU-CS-02-11,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Reports published in 2002:

Sharlin, Ehud; Watson, Benjamin; Sutphen, Steve; Liu, Lili; Lederer, Robert; Frazer, John, A tangible user interface for assessing cognitive mapping ability,   NWU-CS-02-14,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Qiao, Yi; Skicewicz, Jason A.; Dinda, Peter A., Multiscale predictability of network traffic,   NWU-CS-02-13,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Cornell, Brian; Lange, Jack; Dinda, Peter A., An implementation of diffusion in the Linux kernel,   NWU-CS-02-12,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Kuehne, Sven E.; Forbus, Kenneth D., RoboTA: An agent colony architecture for supporting education,   NWU-CS-02-10,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Choudhury, Prasun; Watson, Benjamin, Completely adaptive simplification of massive meshes,   NWU-CS-02-9,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Dinda, Peter A., The Minet TCP/IP Stack,   NWU-CS-02-8,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Reports published in 2001:

Knop, Michael W.; Paritosh, Praveen K.; Dinda, Peter A.; Schopf, Jennifer M., Windows performance modeling and data reduction using WatchTower and Argus,   NWU-CS-01-6,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Bradshaw, Shannon, Document indexing vocabularies: Reference vs. content,   NWU-CS-01-7,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Reports published in 2000:

Schopf, Jennifer M.; Nitzberg, Bill, Grids: The top ten questions,   NWU-CS-00-5,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Reports published in 1999:

Schopf, Jennifer M.; Berman, Francine, Stochastic scheduling,   NWU-CS-99-3,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Schopf, Jennifer M., A practical methodology for defining histograms for predictions and scheduling,   NWU-CS-99-2,  PDF   ABSTRACT

Schopf, Jennifer M.; Berman, Francine, Using stochastic intervals to predict application behavior on contended resources,   NWU-CS-99-1,  PDF   ABSTRACT

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