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Unsupervised Anomaly Detection in Network Intrusion Detection Using Clusters: Most current network Intrusion Detection Systems IDSs employ signature-based methods or data mining-based methods which rely on labelled training data. This training data is typically expensive to produce. Moreover, these methods have difficulty in detecting new types of attack. Using unsupervised anomaly detection techniques, however, the system can be trained...; Tags: Network, Clustering, Australian Computer Society, Network Intrusion Detection, Training, Intrusion Detection, Workforce Management, Training And Certification, Security, Human Resources; White papers 2007-01-01
Evaluating Swiftpoint as a Mobile Device for Direct Manipulation Input: This paper presents a promising new computer pointing device, called Swiftpoint, that is designed primarily for mobile computer (for example, laptop) users in constrained space. Swiftpoint has many advantages over current pointing devices: it is small, ergonomic, has a digital ink mode, and can be used over a flat keyboard....; Tags: Mobile Computer, Device, Mobile, Australian Computer Society, Mobile Device, Computer, Swiftpoint, Mice, Productivity, Notebooks, Advertising & Promotion, Wireless, Hardware, Peripherals, Notebooks & Tablets, Marketing; White papers 2006-11-13
Autonomic System Management in Mobile Grid Environments: Mobile device integration in grid environments is a challenge for many researchers. Due to the transient nature of mobile devices, service management is a critical, but often overlooked area of research. The paper proposes a distributed broker responsible for the autonomic management of grid services. The broker provides self discovery...; Tags: Mobile, Environment, Australian Computer Society, Broker, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing; White papers 2006-10-20
Hybrid Mesh Ad-Hoc On-Demand Distance Vector Routing Protocol: Wireless Mesh Networks WMNs have recently gained increasing attention and have emerged as a technology with great potential for a wide range of applications. WMNs can be considered as a super-set of traditional Mobile Ad-hoc NETworks MANETs, where the network is comprised of mobile client de-vices MESH CLIENTs. In addition...; Tags: Mobile, On-demand, Australian Computer Society, Routing Protocol, Advertising & Promotion, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Marketing; White papers 2006-10-18
Conflict Management for Real-Time Collaborative Editing in Mobile Replicated Architectures: Mobile technology is particularly suited to a fully distributed replicated architecture for collaborative work. Users can maintain their own document copies, and can continue to work in the absence of a central server. However, in a replicated architecture, conflicts can occur when two or more users concurrently modify the same...; Tags: Mobile, Australian Computer Society, Architecture, Mobile Technology, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing; White papers 2006-10-02

Technology Trends: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the technology environment of a case organisation. This organisation is called Acme Energy and it is a State Government run Utility. Acme Energy is moving towards a SOA target architecture. Business challenges of the architecture prior to moving to a SOA target...; Tags: Australian Computer Society, SOA, Architecture, Acme Energy, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, ITIL, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, It Services; White papers 2005-11-17
A Novel Fuzzy Logic Controller (FLC) for Shortening the TCP Channel Roundtrip Time by Eliminating User Buffer Overflow Adaptively: The proposed Fuzzy Logic Controller FLC is a novel approach for dynamic buffer tuning at the user/server level. It eliminates buffer overflow by ensuring that the buffer length always cover the queue length adaptively. The FLC and the AQM Active Queue Management mechanisms at the router/system level together form a...; Tags: Australian Computer Society, TCP, Buffer-overflow, Fuzzy Logic Controller, Tcp/Ip, Networking, Viruses And Worms, Security; White papers 2005-07-15
A Collaborative Approach for Caching Dynamic Data in Portal Applications: Portals are one of the rapidly growing applications on the Web, providing a single interface to access different sources providers. Providing fast response time is one of the critical issues in such applications. The performance of such applications through caching techniques is addressed in this paper. The limitations of existing...; Tags: Australian Computer Society, Portals, Web Technology, Internet; White papers
Component-Driven Engineering of Database Applications: Though it is commonly agreed that the design of large database schemata requires group effort, database design from component subschemata has not been investigated thoroughly. This paper investigates snowflake-like subschemata of database schemata expressed in the Higher-order Entity-Relationship Model HERM. These subschemata are almost hierarchical in the sense that they...; Tags: Australian Computer Society, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management; White papers
Spreadsheet Structure Inspection Using Low Level Access and Visualisation: Spreadsheets are an extremely common form of end-user programming used for many applications from student marks to accounting for global multinationals. Ways of studying the structure of a spreadsheet itself is normally constrained to the tools provided in the spreadsheet software. The authors wanted to explore ways to use new...; Tags: Microsoft Access, Australian Computer Society, Spreadsheet, Productivity; White papers
A Simplified Approach to Web Service Development: Most languages used for developing web services and clients exhibit properties which make calling remote functions across a network a non-trivial task. The author discusses the problems with existing systems and propose a new model for web services development based on an implementation of XSLT that the authors are currently...; Tags: Web, Author, Australian Computer Society, Web Service, Channel Management, Web Services, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers
Performance and Cost Tradeoffs in Web Search: Web search engines crawl the web to fetch the data that they index. This paper re-examines that need, and evaluate the network costs associated with data acquisition, and alternative ways in which a search service might be supported. Based upon an analysis of the Research Finder system it introduces a...; Tags: Web, Performance, Australian Computer Society, Internet Search, Local Search, Search; White papers
Security in Mobile Communications: Challenges and Opportunities: The nature of mobile communication, characterised for example by terminals having poor user interface and limited processing capacity, as well as complex combination of network protocols, makes the design of security solutions particularly challenging. This paper discusses some of the difficulties system architects are faced with as well as some...; Tags: Mobile, Australian Computer Society, Security Solution, Mobile Communication, Advertising & Promotion, Cellular Phones, Security, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology; White papers

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VMWare: Time to Pay the Open Source Piper: It would not be an exaggeration to say that yesterday was a very bad day for VMWare. My friend and fellow tech blogger colleague at ComputerWorld, Steven J Vaughn-Nichols, thinks the company will be down for the count when they take their next hit, that essentially, the...; Tags: Software, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Virtualization, Tools & Techniques, Open Source, Hardware, Management, Jason Perlow; Blog posts 2008-07-09
Summer reading for kids: A user on Slashdot asked yesterday for summer science fiction reading suggestions for his preteen kids. There were, of course, plenty of great thoughts from other Slashdot members that included all of the usual suspects from Bradbury to Asimov to Pratchett to Douglas Adams. However, the...; Tags: Kid, Slashdot, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2008-07-08
A Modest Privacy Proposal: The Senate Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee is holding a hearing tomorrow on Privacy Implications of Online Advertising. Appearing before the committee headed by long-time Senator Daniel K. Inouye (D-Hawaii) are lawyers for Google and Microsoft, as well as Facebook's chief privacy officer -- and Robert R. Dykes, the chairman...; Tags: Google Inc., Web, Internet Service Provider, Service Provider, Internet Service, Internet, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Business Services, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld; Blog posts 2008-07-08
Broadcast or communicate?: When the Czarist autocracy was overthrown in the 1917 Russian revolution, fundamental changes in Russian society under the new political structure occurred. A fascinating example for me is that while most of the world was busy building out telephone communications infrastructure, the Soviets chose to focus on installing...; Tags: E-mail, Collaboration, Groupware, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks; Blog posts 2008-07-08
Apple hasn't learned from past security mistakes: * Ryan Naraine is on vacation. Guest editorial by Aviv Raff Apple's Safari for Windows is a nice browser. It really is. It has slick user interface, some pretty cool features, and benchmarks show that it is really fast. But, saying that...; Tags: Security, Apple Safari, Apple Inc., Web Browser, Web Browsers, Microsoft Windows, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Ryan Naraine; Blog posts 2008-07-08
Acer announces $499 home theater-friendly mini PC: If your geek tendencies have ever desired to shoehorn a computer into your home theater, now's the time to give in. Acer introduced the Aspire X1200 this morning, which for $450 includes on-board NVIDIA GeForce 8200 graphics, an AMD Athlon (remember those?) X2 2850e processor and, thankfully,...; Tags: Acer Inc., mini-PC, Serial ATA, Home Entertainment, Digital Video, Processors, Storage, Hardware, Personal Technology, Semiconductors, Components, Andrew Nusca; Blog posts 2008-07-08
Are all-in-one desktops a decent deal?: Averatec, the O.C.'s other computer maker after Gateway, has released a new all-in-one desktop. The design doesn't break any new ground in this category, but it is simple, compact and reasonably attractive. And with a 22-inch LCD, Nvidia GeForce 8400 graphics and an integrated TV tuner, at first glance it...; Tags: Desktop, Microsoft Windows Vista, LCD, Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium, Graphics, Monitors & Displays, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Hardware, Components, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, John Morris; Blog posts 2008-07-08