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Axon - An Adaptive Collaborative Web Portal

Collaborative web portals allow groups to author, create, update, and share content via easy-to-use web-based interfaces (e.g., MediaWiki, Sharepoint, etc.) From an adaptability perspective, such portals are limited in their authentication, mobile device access, multi-channel document delivery, and version management. For example, in wikis, security is often at two extremes:...

Tags: Collaborative Web, Health Care, University Of Connecticut, Portals, Web Technology, Vertical Industries, Collaboration, Benefits, Healthcare, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources

White papers 2008-05-26

A Formal Framework for Secure Design and Constraint Checking in UML

The design of software applications using the unified modeling language, UML, embodies an incremental process, transitioning a design from state to state over time. The integration of security into this process is critical to satisfy an application's security requirements. This paper reports on a formal approach that incorporates Role-Based Access...

Tags: Security, University Of Connecticut, UML, Programming Languages, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development

White papers 2008-01-01

Enhancing UML to Model Custom Security Aspects

Despite its widespread usage, the Unified Modeling Language UML specification still lacks formal, explicit, support for access control. This paper proposes an approach to model security as a separate concern by augmenting UML with separate and new diagrams for role-based, discretionary, and mandatory access controls; collectively, these diagrams provide visual...

Tags: University Of Connecticut, UML, Programming Languages, Security, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development

White papers 2007-08-28

A Broadband Underwater Acoustic Modem Implementation Using Coherent OFDM

Multicarrier modulation in the form of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing OFDM has prevailed in recent broadband wireless systems over radio channels. In the senior design project discussed in this paper, the authors have implemented an acoustic OFDM modem that transmits digital data through sound propagation. This paper demonstrates OFDM transmission...

Tags: Broadband, University Of Connecticut, OFDM, Modems, Broadband Internet, Telecommunications, Wireless, Hardware, Components

White papers 2007-02-26

Reliability Tradeoffs in Personal Storage Systems

RAID has long been established as an effective way to provide highly reliable disk subsystems. However, reliability in RAID systems comes at the cost of extra disks and somewhat lower performance. This paper examines some mechanisms to reduce this cost in the context of integration with backup processes. These methods...

Tags: Disk, Tradeoff, Storage System, University Of Connecticut, Storage, RAID, Hardware

White papers 2006-12-10

RBAC/MAC Security Analysis and Design for UML

In today's web-based, distributed, and security conscious world, the construction of large-scale software systems is a complex task, requiring the comprehensive specification of requirements. However, the inclusion of security analysis and design has often been an afterthought, relegated to latter stages of the development life cycle or placed in the...

Tags: Security, Role-based Access Control, MAC, University Of Connecticut, UML, Programming Languages, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development

White papers 2004-02-15

A Dual Actuator Logging Disk Architecture

This paper presents a dual actuator logging disk architecture to minimize write access latencies. The paper reduces small synchronous write latency using the notion of logging writes, i.e. writing to free sectors near the current disk head location. However, the paper shows through simulations that logging writes by itself is...

Tags: Disk, Latency, University Of Connecticut

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Additional Resources

Weightmania Mobile 1.5 (Mobile)

A complete fitness, nutrition and exercise journal. Track workouts, meals, measurements, dieting progress, general health, diabetes and more. Includes an 8,000 food database with 14,000 serving sizes, a color-coded calendar, charts, and a statistics tool. Calculates body fat, BMI, distance-time-pace-speed, and splits. Also performs numerous calculations and conversions (such as...

Tags: Mobile, Workout, Edward A. Greenwood, Apple Mac OS, Business Structures, Microsoft Windows, Food & Beverage, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Finance, Manufacturing, Hardware

Software downloads 2008-04-25

Diamonds are jet engines' best friends

You certainly know that birds are enemies of jet engine turbine blades. But these jet engines have another nasty foe: sand. Even if the turbine blades are protected with thin layers of thermal barrier coatings TBCs, they operate at very high temperatures. When a sand storm hits a blade, grains...

Tags: Turbine, Glass, Ohio State University, Aluminum, Telecom & Utilities, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-03-24

Giving educators the tools that they want (and need)

Giving educators the tools that they want and needResponding to circumstances.It's no advantage to provide an educational system with resources which cannot be supported because the necessary expertise is not available at an acceptable cost.If someone is able to maintain an... esoteric system successfully, that's no guarantee that such support...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Operating systems, tool, Linux, computer, operating system, mixed-OS environment, information technology

Discussion threads 2007-04-11

There's little chance Eclipse will suffer the same mistakes as Java

There's little chance Eclipse will suffer the same mistakes as JavaHarvard? Get Real That Sad Institution is SinkingSun use to stand for Stanford University Network and the author of this article is pulling our legs in implying that Harvard has any notion what-so-ever in what it takes for a technology...

Tags: Java development tools, OPEN SOURCE, Eclipse, Harvard, JCP, Sun Microsystems Inc., Java

Discussion threads 2007-03-12

Windows vs. Unix, part duh!

When do three easy pieces lead to a conclusion about risks of unusual size? When theyre about mis-adventures with Windows software. First, my friend with the shiny new Lenova laptop never did get his encrypted Word files back after first loading Vista on that machine and then going...

Tags: Sun, Enterprise Policy, General

Blog posts 2007-03-07

Married to the Brand: Why Consumers Bond with Some Brands for Life (Mobile)

"Companies spend millions of dollars every year trying to court consumers. They invest in flashy advertising, celebrity endorsements, loyalty programs, Web sites . . . you name it. And they spend millions more trying to build their businesses through elaborate "relationship management" software. The result? Most marketers still aren't emotionally...

Tags: Brand, Mobile, Bond, Mobifusion, Branding, Marketing

Software downloads 2007-01-04

CT's optical scan devices: manageable risk

Connecticut cities and towns will use optical scan devices that are susceptible to tampering but officials are making sure to follow procedures that eliminate the risk, AP reports. A new report by the University of Connecticut finds that optical scan devices, used to read paper ballots can be...

Tags: optical-scan device

Blog posts 2006-11-01

Web 2.0 pay for play: payola, or transparency?

We live in a world propelled by “spin” and driven by opaque, financially motivated relationship webs.From corporations motivated by profits, to not-for-profits with missions to “do good,” and from governments serving citizens, to universities at the service of research, activities occuring at organizations of all types, including Web 2.0 Social...

Tags: hospital

Blog posts 2006-07-23

Weightmania Mobile 1.6 (Mobile)

DESCRIPTION:Designed in partnership with the University of Connecticut.Record meals and workouts extremely fast.Over 15 screens.8,000 foods, 14,000 servings, 6 kinds of graphs, 5 fitness calculators Manage fitness, nutrition and dieting progress.Record cardio. and weight training workouts.Track meals, nutrition and supplements.Store daily measurements and medical information.Create graphs, charts and statisticsShares data...

Tags: Food, Mobile, Workout, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing

Software downloads 2006-05-20

44% of Americans believe Google should have turned the search data to the Feds

50% of respondents to the University of Connecticut's poll said Google shouldn't turn over search queries to the government, while 44% said they should. The responses reflected partisan differences about the Bush administration request, with 67% of Democrats opposing the data release, compared with 30% of Republicans. Asked whether they...

Tags: Americans

Blog posts 2006-02-22

Voters Highly Engaged with Politics Online

The study, conducted by the Center for Survey and Research Analysis at the University of Connecticut, found that 68% of voters who use the Internet are likely to research a candidate's position online. This finding was relatively consistent across party lines, with a clear majority of Democrats (57%), Republicans (68%)...

Tags: Internet, advertisement

Blog posts 2003-09-08

Doctors, Nurses Are Mobile at Waterbury Hospital With Cisco Wireless Solution From ChimeNet

Waterbury Hospital is a not-for-profit, acute care teaching hospital affiliated with the Yale School of Medicine, the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, and the Connecticut Children's Medical Center. The Hospital was undergoing massive upgrades and needed to overhaul its wireless network, expanding coverage from two floors to all nine...

Tags: Patient, Hospital, Mobile, Cisco Systems Inc., Waterbury Hospital, Wi-Fi, Wireless

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