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Automated Software Testing as a Service (TaaS)

George Candea, Cristian Zamfir, Stefan Bucur

This paper makes the case for TaaS - automated software testing as a cloud-based service. We present three kinds of TaaS: (1) a public certification service, akin to Underwriters Labs, that independently assesses the reliability, safety, and security of so ...

2010

Design methodology and comparison of rectifiers for UHF-band RFIDs

Catherine Dehollain, Francesco Mazzilli, Norbert Jöhl

Rectifiers are important energy converters and henceforth crucial building blocks for RFID applications. In the first half of the work, we have presented a design methodology for matching the rectifier input impedance with the antenna to maximize the recti ...

Ieee Service Center, 445 Hoes Lane, Po Box 1331, Piscataway, Nj 08855-1331 Usa2010

Trustful Cumulus Clouds

Rachid Guerraoui, Maysam Yabandeh

Cloud computing offers an appealing business model and it is tempting for companies to delegate their IT services to the cloud. Yet, a company might ﬁnd it risky to do so for sensible services and to depend entirely on a single provider, which can be vulne ...

2010

An MPEG RVC AVC Baseline Encoder Based on a Novel Iterative Methodology

Ihab Mostafa Amin Mohamed Amer, Karim Maarouf, Hussein Aman-Allah, Ehab Hanna

With the emergence of new generations of multicore architectures, the need for efficient multimedia algorithm implementations has become critical. This paper describes a new methodology for efficient implementations of algorithms targeting reconfigurable a ...

2009

Mechanisms for Making Crowds Truthful

Boi Faltings, Radu Jurca

We consider schemes for obtaining truthful reports on a common but hidden signal from large groups of rational, self-interested agents. One example are online feedback mechanisms, where users provide observations about the quality of a product or service s ...

AI Access Foundation2009

Designable Visual Markers

Jeffrey Huang, Enrico Costanza

Visual markers are graphic symbols designed to be easily recognised by machines. They are traditionally used to,track goods, but there is increasing interest in their application to mobile HCI. By scanning a visual marker through a camera phone, users can ...

Acm Order Department, P O Box 64145, Baltimore, Md 21264 Usa2009

Toward a Service Management Quality Model

Gil Regev, Alain Wegmann

[Context and motivation] Service Management has been steadily gaining in importance in many organizations and is becoming a major force of change in IT departments. ITIL, one of the main service management frameworks, defines the value of a service for its ...

Springer2009

Towards Probabilistic Estimation of Quality of Online Services

Karl Aberer

Accurate estimation of quality of online services is both an important and difficult problem, since a service has many interdependent quality attributes influenced by several contextual factors. It is even more challenging as quality ratings come from sour ...

IEEE2009

The Hand-bot, a Robot Design for Simultaneous Climbing and Manipulation

Francesco Mondada, Michael Bonani, Stéphane Magnenat, Philippe Rétornaz

We present a novel approach to mobile object manipulation for service in indoor environments. Current research in service robotics focus on single robots able to move, manipulate objects, and transport them to various locations. Our approach differs by tak ...

Springer-Verlag2009

A Multimedia Terminal Supporting Adaptation for QoS Control

Marco Mattavelli, Daniele Renzi, Beilu Shao

This paper addresses the End-to-End Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees and control for multimedia content delivery over heterogeneous networks, with a particular focus on end user terminal perspective. We design and implement a multimedia terminal which c ...

IEEE Computer Society2008