Toward a Cost Model for System Administration : he core of system administration is to utilize a set of 'best practices' that minimize cost and result in maximum value, but very little is known about the true cost of system administration.

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Experience with EMERALD to Date: Anomaly detection involves the recognition of deviations from expected normal behavior, whereas misuse detection involves the detection of various types of misuse. The term ``intrusion detection' is often used to encompass both, but unfortunately suggests only the detection of intrusions rather than the broader scope of EMERALD.

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Filters as a Language Support for Design Patterns in Object-Oriented Scripting Languages: Scripting languages are designed for glueing software components together. Such languages provide features like dynamic extensibility and dynamic typing with automatic conversion that make them well suited for rapid application development. Although these features entail runtime penalties, modern CPUs are fast enough to execute even large applications in scripting languages efficiently

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Breaking Up Is Hard To Do: Modeling Security Threats for Smart Cards: Smart card systems differ from conventional computer systems in that different aspects of the system are not under a single trust boundary. The processor, I/O, data, programs, and network may be controlled by different, and hostile, parties. We discuss the security ramifications of these ``splits'' in trust, showing that they are fundamental to a proper understanding of the security of systems that include smart cards.

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Design Strategies for Tamper-Resistant Card Processors: Smartcards promise numerous security benefits. They can participate in cryptographic protocols, and unlike magnetic stripe cards, the stored data can be protected against unauthorized access. However, the strength of this protection seems to be frequently overestimated.

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Lightweight Structured Text Processing: Structured text has always been a popular way to store, process, and distribute information. Traditional examples of structured text include source code, SGML or LaTeX documents, bibliographies, and email messages. With the advent of the World Wide Web, structured text (in the form of HTML) has become a dominant medium for online information.

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Availability of Multi-Object Operations: In this paper, we show that the assignment of object replicas (or fragments, in the case of erasure coding) to machines plays a dramatic role in the availability of such multi-object operations, without affecting the availability of individual objects

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Versatile Cluster-based Storage: Download Free

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On Multidimensional Data and Modern Disks: Large, multidimensional datasets are becoming more prevalent in both scientific and business computing. Applications, such as earthquake simulation and oil and gas exploration, utilize large three-dimensional datasets representing the composition of the earth.

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Automatic I/O Hint Generation through Speculative Execution: Many applications, ranging from simple text search utilities to complex databases, issue large numbers of file access requests that cannot always be serviced by in-memory caches. Due to the disparity between processor speeds and disk access times, the execution times of these applications are often dominated by I/O latency

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