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WaRR: A Tool for High-Fidelity Web Application Record and Replay

George Candea, Silviu Andrica

We introduce WaRR, a tool that records and replays with high ﬁdelity the interaction between users and modern web applications. WaRR consists of two independent components: the WaRR Recorder and the WaRR Replayer. The WaRR Recorder is embedded in a web bro ...

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Security Games in Online Advertising: Can Ads Help Secure the Web?

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Maxime Raya, Nevena Vratonjic

Some ISPs are trying to become part of the online advertising market. Such ISPs either: (i) cooperate with online advertising entities (e.g., ad networks) by providing users’ private information to achieve better ad targeting in exchange for a share of the ...

2010

GeneNetWeaver 3.0: realistic benchmark generation and performance profiling of network inference methods

Dario Floreano, Daniel Marbach, Thomas Schaffter

Numerous methods have been developed for inference of gene regulatory networks from expression data, however, their strengths and weaknesses remain poorly understood. Accurate and systematic evaluation of these methods is hampered by the difficulty of cons ...

2010

Towards Privacy-Friendly Online Advertising

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Julien Freudiger, Nevena Vratonjic

Modern web sites commonly interact with third-party domains to integrate advertisements and generate revenue from them. To improve the relevance of advertisement, online advertisers track user activities online with third- party cookies. However, excessive ...

2009

Securing Online Advertising

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Mark Felegyhazi, Julien Freudiger, Nevena Vratonjic

Online advertisement is a major source of revenues in the Internet. In this paper, we identify a number of vulnerabilities of current ad serving systems. We describe how an adversary can exploit these vulnerabilities to divert part of the ad revenue stream ...

2008

Web-based tools for energy management in large companies applied to food industry

Damien Muller

This thesis presents a methodology for energy management in large companies and its implementation through a web application and through a prototype of a simulation platform. By combining existing tools in an innovative manner and by making use of recent w ...

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Experience Implementing Caching of Dynamic Web Content with AOP

Willy Zwaenepoel

Caching is an appealing approach for server-side acceleration of dynamic content web sites. Previous work in this area provides either non-transparent caching obtained at the expense of considerable effort from the application programmer, or a transparent ...

2003

Proxys Internet avancés

Since the 90's, the Internet has tremendously evolved in terms of number and diversity of available services. In this trend, proxies are playing a central role and are spread all over the net. Today, the only functionality of proxies is to speed content ac ...

EPFL2003

Specification and Implementation of Dynamic Web Site Benchmarks

Willy Zwaenepoel, Sameh Mohamed Elnikety, Emmanuel Cecchet

The absence of benchmarks for Web sites with dynamic content has been a major impediment to research in this area. We describe three benchmarks for evaluating the performance of Web sites with dynamic content. The benchmarks model three common types of dyn ...

2002

Real Benefits of Active Caching in the WWW

Andrey Naumenko

We present our research on active caching in the WWW. We drew some key conclusions on the service properties and its significance, according to the results of our analysis of the WWW content. These conclusions include the percentage values of the potential ...

1999