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Reports published in 2013:
NU-EECS-13-04, Hale, Kyle C.; Dinda, Peter; Guarded Execution of Privileged Code in the Guest. PDF
NU-EECS-13-03, Swiech, Maciej; Hale, Kyle C.; Dinda, Peter; VMM-based Emulation of Intel Hardware Transactional Memory. PDF
NU-EECS-13-02, Swiech, Maciej; Dinda, Peter; Making JavaScript Better By Making It Even Slower. PDF
NU-EECS-13-01, Rastogi, Vaibhav; Chen, Yan; and Jiangy, Jiangy; Evaluating Android Anti-malware against Transformation Attacks. PDF
Reports published in 2012:
NU_EECS_12_05, Chen, Yunkai; Zhou, Hai; Resource-Constrained High-Level Datapath Optimization in ASIP Design PDF
NU-EECS-12-04, McClurg, Jedidiah; Parser Generator Generator (PGG): A Tool for RapidParser Construction via EBNF Grammars. Pending submission
NU-EECS-12-03, Dinda, Peter; Espinosa, Jaime; Dick, Robert; PowerMod: An Open Source, Configurable Power Harvesting and Regulation Tool for Non-experts. PDF / TGZ (download accompanying design documents)
NU-EECS-12-02, Blair, Christopher; Qualitative Exploration in Freeciv. PDF
NWU-EECS-12-01, Chen, Kai; Singla, Ankit; Singh, Atul; Ramachandran, Kishore; Xu, Lei; Zhang, Yueping; Wen, Xitao; Chen Yan; OSA: An Optical Switching Architecture for DataCenter Networks for Unprecedented Flexibility. PDF
Reports published in 2011:
NWU-EECS-11-10, Lange, Jack; Dinda, Peter; Hale, Kyle; Xia, Lei; An Introduction to the Palacios Virtual Machine Monitor---Version 1.3. PDF
NWU-EECS-11-09, Tarzia, Stephen P; Acoustic Sensing of Location and User Presence on Mobile Computers PDF
NWU-EECS-11-08, Chen, Kai; Hu, Chengchen; Wen, Xitao; Chen, Yan; Liu, Bin; Toward Internet Emergency Response via Reconfiguration in Internet eXchange Points. PDF
NWU-EECS-11-07, Xia, Lei; Cui, Zheng; Lange, John; Tang, Yuan; Dinda, Peter; Bridges, Patrick; VNET/P: Bridging the Cloud and High Performance Computing: Through Fast Overlay Networking. PDF
NWU-EECS-11-06,Trajcevski, Goce; Tamassia, Roberto; Cruz, Isabel F.; Scheuermann, Peter; Hartglass, David; Zaimerowski, Christopher; Ranking continuous nearest neighbors for uncertain trajectories: Full and Peer Reviewed Accepted Version. PDF
NWU-EECS-11-05, Ghica, Oliviu C.; Nita-Rotaru, Cristina; Trajcevski, Goce; Scheuermann, Peter; Security of Electrostatic Field Persistent Routing: Taxonomy of Attacks and Defense Mechanisms. PDF
NWU-EECS-11-04, Ghica, Oliviu C.; Trajcevski, Goce; Zuniga, Marco; Schubotz, Rene; Scheuermann, Peter; Hauswirth, Manfred; Multi-Pole Field Persistent Routing with Bounded Delay in Wireless Sensor Networks. PDF
NWU-EECS-11-02, Roy, Sourya; Clemons, Tyler; Faisa, S.M.; Liu, Ke; Hardavellas, Nikos; Parthasarathy, Srinivasan; Elastic Fidelity: Trading-off Computational Accuracy for Energy Reduction. PDF
NWU-EECS-11-01, Little, David; Pardo, Bryan; Wright, Beverly; A Computational Model of Auditory Perceptual Learning: Predicting Learning Interference Across Multiple Tasks. PDF
Reports published in 2010:
NWU-EECS-10-11, Das, Abhishek; Schuchhardt, Matt; Hardavellas, Nikos; Memik, Gokhan; Choudhary, Alok; PAD: Power-Aware Directory Placement in Distributed Caches. PDF
NWU-EECS-10-10, Hill, Alex S., for Justine Cassell, Articulab Laboratory, School of Communication and Mccormick School of Engineering Northwestern University, Standardized Prototyping and Development of Virtual Agents. PDF
NWU-EECS-10-09, Shye, Alex; The End User in Computer Architecture and Systems Research. PDF
NWU-EECS-10-07, Bae, Bhang; Lange, John; Dinda, Peter, Comparing Approaches to Virtualized Page Translation in Modern VMMs. PDF
NWU-EECS-10-06, Shye, Alex; Scholbrock, Benjamin; Memik, Gokhan; Dinda, Peter A., Characterizing and Modeling User Activity on Smartphones. PDF
NWU-EECS-10-05, Hardavellas, Nikos; Ferdman, Michael; Ailamaki, Anastasia; Falsafi, Babak, Power Scaling: the Ultimate Obstacle to 1K-Core Chips. PDF
NWU-EECS-10-04, Miller, J. Scott ; Mondal, Amit ; Potharaju, Rahul ; Dinda, Peter A. ; Kuzmanovic, Aleksandar, Network Monitoring is People: Understanding End-user Perception of Network Problems, PDF
NWU-EECS-10-03, Choffnes, David; Duch, Jordi; Malmgren, Dean; Guierma, Roger; Bustamante, Fabián; Amaral, Luis, Strange Bedfellows: Communities in BitTorrent. PDF
NWU-EECS-10-01, Zwiebel, Tim, GAIL: A Design and Implementation of a Constrained Guarded Action Intermediate Language Suitable for Rewrite-Based Optimization. PDF
Reports published in 2009:
NWU-EECS-09-21, Dehghani, Morteza, A Cognitive Model of Recognition-Based Moral Decision Making. PDF
NWU-EECS-09-22, Choffnes, David R.; Bustamante, Fabián E., Pitfalls for Testbed Evaluations of Internet Systems. PDF
NWU-EECS-09-20, Swaine, James, Parallel Scheme with Futures: Incremental Parallelization in a Language Virtual Machine. PDF
NWU-EECS-09-19, Choffnes, David; Bustamante, Fabián;Ge, Zihui, Using the Crowd to Monitor the Cloud: Network Event Detection from Edge Systems. PDF
NWU-EECS-09-18, Trajcevski, Goce; Ghica, Oliviu; Shubotz, Rene; Zuniga, Marco; Scheuermann, Peter; Hauswirth, Manfred, Discrepancy And Multipath Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks. PDF
NWU-EECS-09-17, Tomai, Emmett, A Pragmatic Approach to Computational Narrative Understanding
NWU-EECS-09-16, Chen, Kai; Choffnes, David R.; Potharaju, Rahul; Chen, Yan; Bustamante, Fabián E.; Pei, Dan; Zhao, Yao, Where the Sidewalk Ends: Extending the Internet AS Graph Using Traceroutes From P2P Users. PDF
NWU-EECS-09-15, Choffnes, David R.; Bustamante, Fabián E., Network Positioning From the Edge: An empirical study of the effectiveness of network positioning in P2P systems. PDF
NWU-EECS-09-14, 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. PDF
NWU-EECS-09-13, Karr, Chris; Gergle, Darren, Pennyworth: A platform for building context-aware applications for everyday use
NWU-EECS-09-12, Deng, Leiwen; Kuzmanovic, Aleksandar, A Feeder-Carrier-Based Internet User Accountability Service. PDF
NWU-EECS-09-11, Deng, Leiwen; Kuzmanovic, Aleksandar, Towards Tussle-based Rules in Cyberspace. PDF
NWU-EECS-09-10, Otto, John S.; Rula, John P.; Bustamante, Fabián E., C3R -- Participatory Urban Pollution Monitoring from your Car. PDF
NWU-EECS-09-09, Klenk, Matthew E, Using Analogy to Overcome Brittleness in AI Systems. PDF
NWU-EECS-09-08, Rafii, Zafar; Pardo, Bryan, A Digital Reverberator controlled through Measures of the Reverberation. PDF
NWU-EECS-09-07, Tarzia, Stephen P.; Zhou, Hai; Dick, Robert P., Fast voltage assignment by convex-cost flow. PDF
NWU-EECS-09-06, Tarzia, Stephen P.; Dick, Robert P.; Dinda, Peter A.; Memik, Gokhan, Prospects for Sonar-based Measurement of User Attentiveness. PDF
NWU-EECS-09-05, Miller, J. Scott; Lange, John R.; Dinda, Peter A., EmNet: Satisfying the Individual User Through Empathic Home Networks, PDF
NWU-EECS-09-04, Choffnes, David R.; Duch, Jordi; Malmgren, Dean; Guierma, Roger; Bustamante, Fabián E.; Amaral, Luis, SwarmScreen: Privacy Through Plausible Deniability in P2P Systems, PDF
NWU-EECS-09-03, Choffnes, David R.; Bustamante, Fabián E., What's Wrong with Network Positioning and Where Do We Go From Here?, PDF
NWU-EECS-09-02, Yazji, Sausan; Chen, Xi; Dick, Robert P.; Scheuermann, Peter, Securing Mobile Devices via Implicit Authentication
NWU-EECS-09-01, Miller, J. Scott; Dinda, Peter A.; Dick, Robert P., GOTO Considered Helpful: A BASIC Approach To Sensor Network Node Programming, PDF
Reports published in 2008:
NWU-EECS-08-14, Deng, Leiwen; Kuzmanovic, Aleksandar, Sustainable Development of the Internet, PDF NWU-EECS-08-15, Deng, Leiwen; Kuzmanovic, Aleksandar, Internet Politics: Resist, Die, or Exploit? PDF
NWU-EECS-08-13, Zhao, Yao; Vemuri, Sagar; Chen, Jiazhen; Chen, Yan; Zhou, Hai; Fu, Zhi (Judy), Exception Trigged DoS Attacks on Wireless Networks. PDF
NWU-EECS-08-12, Trajcevski, Goce; Tamassia, Roberto; Ding, Hui; Scheuermann, Peter; Cruz, Isabel., Moving Convolutions and Continuous Probabilistic Nearest-Neighbor Queries for Uncertain Trajectories. PDF
NWU-EECS-08-11, Lange, John R.; Dinda, Peter A., An Introduction to the Palacios Virtual Machine Monitor--Version 1.0. PDF
NWU-EECS-08-10, Mallik, Arindam, Holistic Computer Architectures based on Application, User, and Process Characteristics
NWU-EECS-08-09, Skalak, Michael S.; Pardo, Bryan, Speeding Music Search with a Perceptually Relevant Melodic String Metric.
NWU-EECS-08-08, Li, Zhichun; Goyal, Anup; Chen, Yan; Paxson, Vern, Towards Situational Awareness of Large-Scale Botnet Events using Honeynets.
NWU-EECS-08-07, 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-08-06, Zhao, Yao; Zhu, Zhaosheng; Chen, Yan; Pei, Dan; Wang, Jia, Towards Efficient Large-Scale Network Monitoring and Diagnosis under Operational Constraints. PDF
NWU-EECS-08-05, Ghica, Oliviu; Trajcevski, Goce; Scheuermann, Peter; Bischoff, Zachary; Valtchanov, Nikolay, SIDnet-SWANS: A Simulator and Integrated Development Platform for Sensor Networks Applications. PDF
NWU-EECS-08-04, Gupta, Ashish, Black Box Methods for Inferring Parallel Applications' Properties in Virtual Environments. PDF
NWU-EECS-08-02, Yang, Lei; Chen, Xi; Dick, Robert P.; Shang, Li; Lekatsas, Haris, Chip Multiprocessor Cooperative Cache Compression and Migration. PDF
NWU-EECS-08-03, Choffnes, David R.; Bustamante, Fabián E., Taming the Torrent - A practical approach to reducing cross-ISP traffic in P2P systems.
NWU-EECS-08-01, Ding, Hui; Trajcevski, Goce; Scheuermann, Peter, Efficient Similarity Join of Large Sets of Spatio-Temporal Trajectories. PDF
Reports published in 2007:
NWU-EECS-07-12, Deng, Leiwen; Kuzmanovic, Aleksandar; Davie, Bruce, What Lies Beneath: Understanding Internet Congestion. PDF
NWU-EECS-07-11, Paritosh, Praveen K., Back of the Envelope Reasoning for Robust Quantitative Problem Solving. PDF
NWU-EECS-07-09, Liveris, Nikolaos; Zhou, Hai; Banerjee, Prithviraj, A Dynamic-Programming Algorithm for Reducing the Energy Consumption of Pipelined System-Level Streaming Applications. PDF
NWU-EECS-07-08, Choffnes, David R.; Bustamante, Fabián E., SideStep - An Open, Scalable Detouring Service. PDF
NWU-EECS-07-07, Choffnes, David R.; Lange, John R.; Rossoff, Sam; Kuzmanovic, Aleksandar, Relative Network Positioning via CDN Redirections.
NWU-EECS-07-06, Li, Zhichun; Goyal, Anup; Chen, Yan; Kuzmanovic, Aleksandar, P2P Doctor: Measurement and Diagnosis of Misconfigured Peer-to-Peer Traffic.
NWU-EECS-07-05, Sood, Sanjay; Owsley, Sara; Hammond, Kristian J.; Birnbaum, Larry, Reasoning Through Search: A Novel Approach to Sentiment Classification. PDF
NWU-EECS-07-04, Lin, Bin, Human-driven Optimization. PDF
NWU-EECS-07-03, Little, David; Raffensperger, David; Pardo, Bryan, Online Training of a Music Search Engine, PDF
NWU-EECS-07-02, Li, Zhichun; Wang, Lanjia; Chen, Yan; Fu, Zhi (Judy), Network-based and Attack-resilient Length Signature Generation for Zero-day Polymorphic Worms, PDF
NWU-EECS-07-01, Prosnitz, Benjamin, Blackbox No More: Reconstruction of Internal Virtual Machine State. PDF
Reports published in 2006:
NWU-EECS-06-20, Liveris, Nikolaos; Zhou, Hai; Dick, Robert P.; Chen, Yan; Banerjee, Prithviraj, Abstraction Techniques for Model-Checking Parameterized Systems, PDF
NWU-EECS-06-18, Sundararaj, Ananth I., Automatic, Run-time and Dynamic Adaptation of Distributed Applications Executing in Virtual Environments. PDF
NWU-EECS-06-17, Liveris, Nikolaos; Lin, Chuan; Wang, Jia; Zhou, Hai; Banerjee, Prithviraj, Retiming for Synchronous Data Flow Graphs. PDF
NWU-EECS-06-16, Ozdemir, Serkan; Ku, Ja C.; Mallik, Arindam; Memik, Gokhan; Ismail, Yehea, Variable Latency Caches for Nanoscale Processor. PDF
NWU-EECS-06-15, Choffnes, David R.; Lange, John R.; Rossoff, Sam; Kuzmanovic, Aleksandar, On the Use of Parallel Connections in Web Browsers. PDF
NWU-EECS-06-11, Mallik, Arindam; Lin, Bin; Dinda, Peter A.; Memik, Gokhan; Dick, Robert P., Process and User Driven Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling. PDF
NWU-EECS-06-10, Lin, Bin; Sundararaj, Ananth I.; Dinda, Peter A., Time-sharing Parallel Applications With Performance Isolation and Control. PDF
NWU-EECS-06-09, Jevtic, Sasha; Kotowksy, Mat; Dick, Robert P.; Dinda, Peter A.; Dowding, Charles, Lucid Dreaming: Reliable Analog Event Detection for Energy-Constrained Applications. PDF
NWU-EECS-06-08, Rossoff, Sam; Dinda, Peter A., Prospects For Speculative Remote Display. PDF
NWU-EECS-06-07, Lin, Bin; Dinda, Peter A., Putting the User in Direct Control of CPU Scheduling. PDF
NWU-EECS-06-06, Sundararaj, Ananth I.; Sanghi, Manan; Lange, John R.; Dinda, Peter A., Hardness of Approximation and Greedy Algorithms for the Adaptation Problem in Virtual Environments, PDF
NWU-EECS-06-03, Sood, Sanjay; Budzik, Jay; Hammond, Kristian J., Creating Polite Agents: 5 Heuristics for User Experience Design. PDF
NWU-EECS-06-01, Woodruff, John; Pardo, Bryan, Active Source Estimation for Improved Source Separation. PDF
Reports published in 2005:
NWU-CS-05-13, Dinda, Peter A.; Gupta, Ashish; Lowekamp, Bruce; Sundararaj, Ananth I.; Zangrilli, Marcia, Free Network Measurement For Adaptive Virtualized Distributed Computing. PDF
NWU-CS-05-12, Ren, Pin; Watson, Benjamin, Histographs: Interactive Visualization of Complex Data with Graphs. PDF
NWU-CS-05-10, Zubek, Robert, Hierarchical Parallel Markov Models for Inetractive Social Agents. PDF
NWU-CS-05-09, Lu, Dong, Components of a Scalable Distributed Relational Information Service. PDF
NWU-CS-05-08, Cousens, Jeff; Dennis, Brian, RAIn: A System for Indexing and Archiving RSS Feeds. PDF
NWU-CS-05-07, Dayal, Abhinav; Woolley, Cliff; Watson, Benjamin; Luebke, David, Adaptive Frameless Rendering. PDF
NWU-CS-05-06, Lin, Bin; Dinda, Peter A., VSched: Mixing Batch and Interactive Virtual Machines Using Periodic Real-time Scheduling. PDF
NWU-CS-05-03, Choffnes, David R.; Bustamante, Fabián E., Modeling Vehicular Traffic and Mobility for Vehicular Wireless Networks.PDF
Reports published in 2004:
NWU-CS-04-48, Birrer, Stefan; Bustamante, Fabián E.; Chen, Yan, Can we trust ICMP-based measurements? PDF
NWU-CS-04-47, Dayal, Abhinav; Woolley, Cliff; Luebke, David; Watson, Benjamin, Temporally Adaptive Frameless Rendering. PDF
NWU-CS-04-38, Lechner, Thomas; Watson, Benjamin; Ren, Pin; Wilensky, Uri; Tisue, Seth; Felsen, Martin, Procedural Modeling of Land Use in Cities. PDF
NWU-CS-04-42, Gooch, Amy; Gooch, Bruce, Enhancing Perceived Depth in Images Via Artistic Matting. PDF
NWU-CS-04-41, Setlur, Vidya; Takagi, Saeko; Gleicher, Michael; Raskar, Ramesh; Gooch, Bruce, Automatic Image Retargeting. PDF
NWU-CS-04-39, Shoykhet, Alex; Lange, Jack; Dinda, Peter A., Virtuoso: A System For Virtual Machine Marketplaces. PDF
NWU-CS-04-40, Chen, Yan; Beach, Aaron; Skicewicz, Jason A., Cyber Disease Monitoring with Distributed Hash Tables: A Global Peer-to-Peer Intrusion Detection System, PDF
NWU-CS-04-37, Qiao, Yi; Lu, Dong; Bustamante, Fabián E.; Dinda, Peter A., Looking at the Server Side of Peer-to-Peer Systems. PDF
NWU-CS-04-36, Birrer, Stefan; Bustamante, Fabián E., Nemo – Resilient Peer-to-Peer Multicast without the Cost. PDF
NWU-CS-04-34, Lu, Dong; Qiao, Yi; Dinda, Peter A.; Bustamante, Fabián E., Characterizing and Predicting TCP Throughput on the Wide Area Network. PDF
NWU-CS-04-33, Lu, Dong ; Sheng, Huanyuan; Dinda, Peter A., Effects and Implications of File Size/Service Time Correlation on Web Server Scheduling Policies. PDF
NWU-CS-04-32, Kuehne, Sven E., Understanding Natural Language Descriptions of Physical Phenomena. PDF
NWU-CS-04-30, Cornell, Brian; Dinda, Peter A.; Bustamante, Fabián E., Wayback: A User-Level Versioning File System for Linux. PDF
NWU-CS-04-29, Houk, Philip A., A Strategic Game Playing Agent for FreeCiv. PDF
NWU-CS-04-28, Gupta, Ashish; Lin, Bin; Dinda, Peter A., A Framework And Toolkit For Understanding User Comfort With Resource Borrowing. PDF
Reports published in 2003:
NWU-CS-03-27, Sundararaj, Ananth I.; Dinda, Peter A., Towards Virtual Networks for Virtual Machine Grid Computing. PDF
NWU-CS-03-22, Birrer, Stefan; Bustamante, Fabián E., Resilient Peer-to-Peer Multicast from the Ground Up. PDF
NWU-CS-03-20, Khoo, Aaron Boo Boon, Implementing Efficient Joint Beliefs on Multi-Robot Teams. PDF
NWU-CS-03-19, Flachsbart, Joshua D., Vision in Context: Using Special Purpose Routines to Achieve. PDF
NWU-CS-03-18, Seif El-Nasr, Magy, Automatic Expressive Lighting for Interactive Scenes. PDF
NWU-CS-03-16, Skicewicz, Jason A.; Dinda, Peter A., Tsunami: A Wavelet Toolkit for Distributed Systems. PDF
NWU-CS-03-15, Dinda, Peter A.; Lu, Dong, Nondeterministic Queries in a Relational Grid Information Service. PDF
Reports published in 2002:
NWU-CS-02-14, Sharlin, Ehud; Watson, Benjamin; Sutphen, Steve; Liu, Lili; Lederer, Robert; Frazer, John, A tangible user interface for assessing cognitive mapping ability. PDF
NWU-CS-02-13, Qiao, Yi; Skicewicz, Jason A.; Dinda, Peter A., Multiscale predictability of network traffic. PDF
NWU-CS-02-12, Cornell, Brian; Lange, Jack; Dinda, Peter A., An implementation of diffusion in the Linux kernel. PDF
NWU-CS-02-11, Qiao, Yi; Dinda, Peter A., Network traffic analysis, classification, and prediction. PDF
NWU-CS-02-10, Kuehne, Sven E.; Forbus, Kenneth D., RoboTA: An agent colony architecture for supporting education. PDF
NWU-CS-02-9, Choudhury, Prasun; Watson, Benjamin, Completely adaptive simplification of massive meshes. PDF
NWU-CS-02-8, Dinda, Peter A., The Minet TCP/IP Stack. PDF
Reports published in 2001:NWU-CS-01-6, Knop, Michael W.; Paritosh, Praveen K.; Dinda, Peter A.; Schopf, Jennifer M., Windows performance modeling and data reduction using WatchTower and Argus. PDF
NWU-CS-01-7, Bradshaw, Shannon, Document indexing vocabularies: Reference vs. content. PDF
Reports published in 2000:
NWU-CS-00-5, Schopf, Jennifer M.; Nitzberg, Bill, Grids: The top ten questions. PDF
Reports published in 1999:
NWU-CS-99-1: Schopf, Jennifer M.; Berman, Francine, Using stochastic intervals to predict application behavior on contended resources. PDF
NWU-CS-99-2, Schopf, Jennifer M., A practical methodology for defining histograms for predictions and scheduling. PDF
NWU-CS-99-3, Schopf, Jennifer M.; Berman, Francine, Stochastic scheduling. PDF
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