Distinguishing False From True Alerts in Snort by Data Mining Patterns of Alerts
White Papers A novel XML distance measure is proposed to obtain the distance between two such XML documents. A classical clustering algorithm, implemented based on this distance measure, is then applied to group the alert patterns into clusters.
[May 21, 2008, 1:01]
Digital Economy Bill gets tough on file-sharers
News Among the technical measures, temporary account suspension is a possible temporary measure. Timms said there was "a pretty broad measure of recognition" in the ISP industry that the file-sharing issue "needs to be resolved", and said 99 percent of...
[November 20, 2009, 9:38]
Online Training Needs Assessment: Measure Learning Performance Effortlessly
Blog With meaningful and periodical performance assessments, instructors would easily and efficiently measure all performances and provide valuable feedback to learners in training progress. However, this assessment approach needs to be changed, as it...
[July 23, 2008, 10:03]
Intel to unveil nanotech plans
News However, transistor gates, which control the flow of electricity across transistors, measure only a few atoms thick and are getting thinner. Sunlin Chou, senior vice president of the technology and manufacturing group at Intel, will discuss the...
[September 4, 2002, 13:48]
More than Online Tests, Get Values from Your Assessment Results
Blog To measure learning performance in a flexible approach, many instructors have successfully implemented online tests and exams with e-learning authoring tools. Theoretically instructors would obtain all test items and responses in detail, and...
[September 18, 2008, 9:12]
A Low Complexity ML Channel Estimator for OFDM
White Papers While a straightforward approach is to measure the response to a known pilot symbol sequence, existing literature reports a significant performance gain when exploiting the frequency correlation properties of the channel.
[July 26, 2005, 0:00]
Environmental Sustainability and Microsoft Dynamics
White Papers Financial results are no longer the only defining measure of a company's strength. Increasing importance is being placed on each company's approach to Corporate Social Responsibility ("CSR") and Environmental Sustainability in particular.
[March 2, 2007, 0:00]
Exploiting Social Software to Build Open Source Communities
White Papers Yet, a well-defined evaluation framework needs to be constructed and applied in order to measure the effectiveness of the approach. The proposed approach is based on exploiting existing social software communities and applications to attract users...
[February 6, 2009, 0:00]
A Multiple LSPs Approach to Secure Data in MPLS Networks
White Papers This paper has implemented the approach to measure its time overhead on packet transmission. MPLS security is an evolving issue which has been raised by many researchers and service providers. The basic architecture of MPLS network does not provide...
[June 25, 2008, 1:01]
Proven Approaches to Data Quality
White Papers Using a step-by-step approach, this webcast will help the attendee to understand the data landscape and measure data quality in the organization, prioritize among the various data quality issues, move beyond basic data cleansing to value focused...
[May 12, 2007, 1:00]
Really Cool Graphics With SAS/GRAPH - Plotting and Embedding Likert Scales in Your Reports
White Papers While this type of scale is commonly used across a wide-range of professions to show where a given measure fits within a predefined scale, references on how to generate this as a high-quality professional looking graphic in SAS are rare at best.
[December 26, 2006, 0:00]
Assessing Your SOA Program
White Papers These experiences have led to recognize that one of the critical factors in successfully adopting SOA across an enterprise lies in the ability to measure and assess the progress and effectiveness of the SOA investment.
[April 5, 2006, 1:01]
The Evolution of the CPM System
White Papers CPM is an umbrella term that describes all of the processes, methodologies, metrics and systems needed to measure and manage the performance of an organization. Cognos is now complementing its solid, integrated technology foundation for CPM with a...
[October 13, 2005, 3:00]
Capacity Planning and Performance Tuning for Environments Using the BlackBerry Enterprise Solution
White Papers This paper focuses on how to measure specific elements of the BlackBerry Enterprise Solution to allow success in both periods of stability and growth. The paper discusses the need for the organization to predict and effectively respond to its...
[September 7, 2006, 3:18]
Controlling Corporate Energy Consumption via the Enterprise Network
White Papers Cisco Systems has taken a broader approach to energy management by delivering a power command and control architecture called Cisco EnergyWise which seeks to provide business and IT leaders with the tools to measure, manage and control the power...
[June 26, 2009, 12:38]
Design Space Exploration of Network Processor Architectures
White Papers The method is specific to the application domain of packet processors and is based on models for packet processing tasks, a specification of the workload generated by traffic streams, and a description of the feasible space of architectures...
[November 25, 2008, 23:00]
Deliver Optimal Service Quality and Experience
White Papers So, providers not only have to incorporate new technologies to launch new services — they must employ new techniques to measure the distinct metrics of each. As a result, providers need a different approach and a different set of tools to...
[August 11, 2009, 11:57]
Measuring Intrusion Detection Capability: An Information-Theoretic Approach
White Papers Traditional metrics (e.g.true positive rate and false positive rate) measure different aspects, but no single metric seems sufficient to measure the capability of intrusion detection systems. Specifically, one analyzes a typical cost-based scheme...
[June 24, 2009, 16:02]
Compiler-Directed Program-Fault Coverage for Highly Available Java Internet Services
White Papers The paper uses compiler analyses to instrument application code in two ways: to direct fault injection to occur at appropriate points during execution, and to measure the resulting coverage. This paper presents a new approach that uses compiler...
[June 23, 2007, 1:00]
Storage Security Fundamentals
White Papers This process will help uncover most of the problems, map fixes to business value, target security countermeasures where they offer the highest return, and provide a way for security managers to monitor and measure results.
[September 27, 2006, 1:00]



