Technical Reports

2006

Available here are the abstracts and full texts of HP Labs Technical Reports. Where only the abstract appears, the full text is unavailable due to copyright considerations.

• HPL-2006-1 Supporting Application QoS in Shared Resource Pools - Rolia, Jerry; Cherkasova, Ludmila; Arlitt, Martin; Machiraju, Vijay
• HPL-2006-2 Emergent (Mis)behavior vs. Complex Software Systems - Mogul, Jeffrey C.
• HPL-2006-3 Authorization-Based Access Control for the Services Oriented Architecture - Karp, Alan H.
• HPL-2006-5 Credit transfer within market-based resource allocation infrastructure - Close, Tyler
• HPL-2006-9 The Global Computer - Karp, Alan H.
• HPL-2006-10 Automatic color scheme picker for document templates based on image analysis and dual problem - Obrador, Pere
• HPL-2006-13 Everyday Practices with Mobile Video Telephony - O'Hara, Kenton; Black, Alison; Lipson, Matthew
• HPL-2006-17 Decision Making with Side Information and Unbounded Loss Functions - Fozunbal, Majid; Kalker, Ton
• HPL-2006-18 Quality Assurance in High Volume Document Digitization: A Survey - Lin, Xiaofan
• HPL-2006-20R1 Tackling Concept Drift by Temporal Inductive Transfer - Forman, George
• HPL-2006-23 Market-Based Approaches to Utility Computing - Low, Colin; Byde, Andrew
• HPL-2006-25 Delivering Newly Published Technical Reports via Database-Generated RSS - Zhu, Qin
• HPL-2006-26R1 Improving Usability by Adding Security to Video Conferencing Systems - Mitchell, April Slayden; Karp, Alan H.
• HPL-2006-27 Incentive-Compatibility, Individual-Rationality and Fairness for Quality of Service Claims - Byde, Andrew
• HPL-2006-29 Evaluating interface aesthetics: a measure of symmetry - Balinsky, Helen
• HPL-2006-30R1 Distributed authorization using delegation with acyclic paths - Lain, Antonio; Mowbray, Miranda
• HPL-2006-33 A Software Framework for Automated Negotiation (Revised and Updated) - Bartolini, Claudio; Preist, Chris; Jennings, Nicholas R.
• HPL-2006-34R2 How web community organisation can help grid computing - Mowbray, Miranda
• HPL-2006-35 A Structural and Stochastic Modelling Philosophy for Systems Integrity - Monahan, Brian; Pym, David
• HPL-2006-36 Products of Sines in Two Simple Arrangements of Six Lines - Carroll, Jeremy
• HPL-2006-37 Woodfrog: A Persistence Library for Smartfrog Components - Schmidt, Rodrigo; Murray, Paul
• HPL-2006-38 IT service management driven by business objectives: an application to incident management - Bartolini, Claudio; Salle, Mathias; Trastour, David
• HPL-2006-40 Generating k Best Solutions to Winner Determination Problems: Algorithms & Application to Procurement - Kelly, Terence; Byde, Andrew
• HPL-2006-42 Local Temperature Control in Data Center Cooling: Part I, Correlation Matrix - Chen, Keke; Auslander, David M.; Bash, Cullen E.; Patel, Chandrakant D.
• HPL-2006-43 Local Temperature Control in Data Center Cooling: Part II, Statistical Analysis - Chen, Keke; Bash, Cullen E.; Auslander, David M.; Patel, Chandrakant D.
• HPL-2006-44 A Systemic Approach to Privacy Enforcement and Policy Compliance Checking in Enterprises - Casassa Mont, Marco; Pearson, Siani; Thyne, Robert
• HPL-2006-45 Towards Scalable Management of Privacy Obligations in Enterprises - Casassa Mont, Marco
• HPL-2006-46 Local Temperature Control in Data Center Cooling: Part III, Application - Chen, Keke; Auslander, David M.; Bash, Cullen E.; Patel, Chandrakant D.
• HPL-2006-47 Control Strategies for Plenum Optimization in Raised Floor Data Centers - Chen, Keke; Federspiel, Clifford C.; Auslander, David M.; Bash, Cullen E.; Patel, Chandrakant D.
• HPL-2006-48R1 Quantifying Trends Accurately Despite Classifier Error and Class Imbalance - Forman, George
• HPL-2006-50R1 Predictive Modelling for Meaningful Security SLAs - Mike Yearworth, Brian Monahan, David Pym
• HPL-2006-51 A Systemic Approach to Automate Privacy Policy Enforcement in Enterprises - Casassa Mont, Marco; Thyne, Robert
• HPL-2006-53 A prototype Semantic Web-based digital content exchange for schools in Singapore - Shabajee, Paul; McBride, Brian; Steer, Damian; Reynolds, Dave
• HPL-2006-54 A Content Integrity Service For Long-Term Digital Archives - Haber, Stuart; Kamat, Pandurang
• HPL-2006-55 Energy Flow in the Information Technology Stack: Coefficient of Performance of the Ensemble and its Impact on the Total Cost of Ownership - Patel, Chandrakant D.; Sharma, Ratnesh K.; Bash, Cullen E.; Beitelmal, Monem
• HPL-2006-56 A Customizable Privacy Assurance System based on Active Feedback - Casassa Mont, Marco; Crane, Stephen
• HPL-2006-57 Configuring Workload Manager Control Parameters for Resource Pools - Rolia, Jerome; Cherkasova, Ludmila; McCarthy, Clifford
• HPL-2006-58 R-Opus: A Composite Framework for Application Performability and QoS in Shared Resource Pools - Cherkasova, Ludmila; Rolia, Jerome
• HPL-2006-60R1 Pragmatic Text Mining: Minimizing Human Effort to Quantify Many Issues in Call Logs - Forman, George; Kirshenbaum, Evan; Suermondt, Jaap
• HPL-2006-65 Bunching for Regions and Locations - Collinson, Matthew; Pym, David
• HPL-2006-67 Model-Based Approach for Optimizing a Data Center Centralized Cooling System - Beitelmal, Monem H.; Patel, Chandrakant D.
• HPL-2006-69 On the Computational Complexity of 2D Maximum- Likelihood Sequence Detection - Ordentlich, Erik; Roth, Ron M.
• HPL-2006-71 Lower Limits of Discrete Universal Denoising - Viswanathan, Krishnamurthy; Ordentlich, Erik
• HPL-2006-72 Privacy Policy Enforcement in Enterprises with Identity Management Solutions - Casassa Mont, Marco; Thyne, Robert
• HPL-2006-74 On the Determination of Optimal Parameterized Prefix Codes for Adaptive Entropy Coding - Said, Amir
• HPL-2006-75 Universal Filtering Via Prediction - Weissman, Tsachy; Ordentlich, Erik; Weinberger, Marcelo J.; Somekh-Baruch, Anelia; Merhav, Neri
• HPL-2006-76 Predicting Performance in Distributed Enterprise Applications - Kelly, Terence; Zhang, Alex
• HPL-2006-77 Enforcing Performance Isolation Across Virtual Machines in Xen - Gupta, Diwaker; Cherkasova, Ludmila; Gardner, Rob; Vahdat, Amin
• HPL-2006-78 Predictive Text Fitting - Lin, Xiaofan
• HPL-2006-80 A Robust Reversed-Complexity Wyner-Ziv Video Codec Introducing Sign-Modulated Codes - Mukherjee, Debargha
• HPL-2006-82 A Fresh Look at the Reliability of Long-term Digital Storage - Baker, Mary; Shah, Mehul; Rosenthal, David S.H.; Roussopoulos, Mema; Maniatis, Petros; Giuli, TJ; Bungale, Prashanth
• HPL-2006-83R1 An Application Framework for Efficient, Reliable and Secure Access to Memory Spot - Li, Jun; Ghosh, Riddhiman; Durante, Elsa
• HPL-2006-84 A Reciprocation-Based Economy for Multiple Services in Peer-to-Peer Grids - Mowbray, Miranda; Brasileiro, Francisco; Andrade, Nazareno; Santana, Jaindson; Cirne, Walfredo
• HPL-2006-86 CACTI 4.0 - Tarjan, David; Thoziyoor, Shyamkumar; Jouppi, Norman P.
• HPL-2006-88 Optimizing SP-Frames for Error Resilience in Video Streaming - Tan, Wai-tian; Cheung, Gene
• HPL-2006-89 Architectural Principles for Secure Streaming & Secure Adaptation in the Developing Scalable Video Coding (SVC) Standard - Apostolopoulos, John G.
• HPL-2006-90 On the Complexity of Variants of Cooperative Peer-to- peer Repair for Wireless Broadcasting - Cheung, Gene; Li, Danjue; Chuah, Chen-Nee
• HPL-2006-95 DataBank: An Economics Based Privacy Preserving System for Distributing Relevant Advertising and Content - Lukose, Rajan M.; Lillibridge, Mark
• HPL-2006-92 Business-driven decision support for change management: planning and scheduling of changes - Sauve, Jacques; Rebroucas, Rodrigo; Moura, Antao; Bartolini, Claudio; Boulmakoul, Abdel; Trastour, David
• HPL-2006-99 Grand Challenges for Systems and Services Sciences - Monahan, Brian; Pym, David; Taylor, Richard; Tofts, Chris; Yearworth, Mike
• HPL-2006-100 Engineering the Polymath Innovation in Systems and Services Education - Monahan, Brian; Pym, David; Taylor, Richard; Tofts, Chris; Yearworth, Mike
• HPL-2006-103R1 Slicing the Transform - A Discriminative Approach for Wavelet Denoising - Hel-Or, Yacov; Shaked, Doron
• HPL-2006-105 Augmenting Distance Learning on the Broadcast Networks With Synchronously Delivered Print Documents - Vennelakanti, Rama; Joshi, Hansa P.
• HPL-2006-107 Resolving Layout Interdependency with Presentational Variables - Lumley, John; Gimson, Roger; Rees, Owen
• HPL-2006-109 On Privacy-aware Information Lifecycle Management in Enterprises: Setting the Context - Casassa Mont, Marco
• HPL-2006-112 Systems and services sciences: a rationale and a research agenda - Pym, David; Taylor, Richard; Tofts, Chris; Yearworth, Mike; Monahan, Brian; Gittler, Frederic
• HPL-2006-115 LipiTk: A Generic Toolkit for Online Handwriting Recognition - Madhvanath, Sriganesh; Vijayasenan, Deepu; Kadiresan, Thanigai Murugan
• HPL-2006-116 How Emily Tamed the Caml - Stiegler, Marc; Miller, Mark
• HPL-2006-117 Design Rules for Quantum Imaging Devices: Experimental Progress Using CMOS Single Photon Detectors - Charbon, Edoardo; Gunther, Neil J.; Boiko, Dmitri L.; Beretta, Giordano B.
• HPL-2006-118 Handwritten Gesture Recognition for Gesture Keyboard - Raghavan, Balaji; Vijayasenan, Deepu; Madhvanath, Sriganesh; Prabhakaran, Jayasree
• HPL-2006-120 "You Are Here" - Experiences with Located Symbols - Kindberg, Tim; O'Hara, Kenton
• HPL-2006-121 Exploiting strong attractors to slaughter monsters - taming 10^1500 states and beyond. - Tofts, Chris
• HPL-2006-123 Optimizing Grid Site Manager Performance with Virtual Machines - Cherkasova, Ludmila; Gupta, Diwaker; Ryabinkin, Eygene; Kurakin, Roman; Dobretsov, Vladimir; Vahdat, Amin
• HPL-2006-124 Active-DTW: A Generative Classifier that combines Elastic Matching with Active Shape Modeling for Online Handwritten Character Recognition - Sridhar, Muralikrishna; Mandalapu, Dinesh; Patel, Mehul
• HPL-2006-125 Predictive Modelling for Security Operations Economics - Yearworth, Mike; Monahan, Brian; Pym, David
• HPL-2006-126 Automated Heuristic RDF Repair - Coetzee, Peter
• HPL-2006-128 Privacy-Preserving Verification of Aggregate Queries on Outsourced Databases - Haber, Stuart; Horne, William; Sander, Tomas; Yao, Danfeng
• HPL-2006-129 Analysis of Systems for Superimposing Projected Images - Said, Amir
• HPL-2006-132R1 Consuming Video on Mobile Devices - O'Hara, Kenton; Mitchell, April Slayden; Vorbau, Alex
• HPL-2006-135 The Impact of IEEE 802.11 MAC Strategies on Multi-Hop Wireless Mesh Networks - Kim, Seongkwan; Lee, Sung-Ju; Choi, Sunghyun
• HPL-2006-136 Bounds for binary codes with narrow distance distributions - Roth, Ron M.; Seroussi, Gadiel
• HPL-2006-140 Jena Property Table Implementation - Wilkinson, Kevin
• HPL-2006-141R1 MUPPET: Mobile Ubiquitous Privacy Protection for Electronic Transactions - Cheng, Winnie; Li, Jun; Moore, Keith; Karp, Alan H.
• HPL-2006-142 Manipulation of modified clay particles in a nematic solvent by a magnetic field - Connolly, Joan; van Duijneveldt, Jeroen S.; Klein, Susanne; Pizzey, Claire; Richardson, Robert M.
• HPL-2006-143 Regularization of Least Square Problems via Prior Information - Fozunbal, Majid
• HPL-2006-144R1 Jumbo Store: Providing Efficient Incremental Upload and Versioning for a Utility Rendering Service - Eshghi, Kave; Lillibridge, Mark; Wilcock, Lawrence; Belrose, Guillaume; Hawkes, Rycharde
• HPL-2006-145 Efficiently Generating k-Best Solutions for Procurement Auctions - Byde, Andrew; Kelly, Terence
> HPL-2006-146 A large scale fault-tolerant grid information service - Brasileiro, Francisco; Costa, Lauro Beltrao; Andrade, Alisson; Cirne, Walfredo; Basu, Sujoy; Banerjee, Sujata
• HPL-2006-147 Building distributed applications using Sinfonia - Aguilera, Marcos K.; Karamanolis, Christos; Merchant, Arif; Shah, Mehul; Veitch, Alistair
• HPL-2006-148R1 Using Assurance Models in IT Audit Engagements - Baldwin, Adrian; Beres, Yolanta; Shiu, Simon
• HPL-2006-149 What next for Semantic Blogging? - Cayzer, Steve
• HPL-2006-151R1 "My iPod is my Pacifier": An Investigation on the Everyday Practices of Mobile Video Consumption - Vorbau, W. Alex; Mitchell, April Slayden; O'Hara, Kenton
• HPL-2006-155 Exploratory Video Search by Augmented Playback - Gargi, Ullas; Banerjee, Somnath
• HPL-2006-156 Full Packet Capture and Offline Analysis on 1 and 10 Gb/s Networks - Anderson, E.; Arlitt, M.
• HPL-2006-157 Selecting Discriminative Facets for Guided Navigation - Gargi, Ullas
• HPL-2006-159 Generic Architecture for Professional Authoring Environments to Export XML Based Formats - Giannetti, Fabio
• HPL-2006-160R1 Achieving Scalable Automated Diagnosis of Distributed Systems Performance Problems - Huang, Chengdu; Cohen, Ira; Symons, Julie; Abdelzaher, Tarek
• HPL-2006-166 Content selection based on compositional image quality - Obrador, Pere
• HPL-2006-168 Surface ordering at the air-nematic interface. Part 2: a spectroscopic ellipsometry study of orientational order - Lau, Y.G.J.; Klein, Susanne; Newton Christopher J.P.; Richardson, Robert, M.
• HPL-2006-172 Performance Engineering for Enterprise Software Systems in Next Generation Data Centres - Rolia, Jerome; Cherkasova, Ludmila; Friedrich, Richard
• HPL-2006-173 Format-Independent Authentication of Arbitrary Scalable Bit-Streams Using One-Way Accumulators - Mukherjee, Debargha
• HPL-2006-175 A Simple Reversed-Complexity Wyner-Ziv Video Coding Mode Based on a Spatial Reduction Framework - Mukherjee, Debargha; Machiavello, Bruno; de Queiroz, Ricardo L.
• HPL-2006-179 Interpolation of Non-Linear Retinex Type Algorithms - Shaked, Doron
• HPL-2006-181 A Model-based Simulation Approach to Error Analysis of IT Services - Wang, Long; Sahai, Akhil; Pruyne, James
• HPL-2006-178 neXus - designing a dedicated mediascape device - Diepenmaat, Pieter; Geelhoed, Erik
• HPL-2006-182 Blades as a General-Purpose Infrastructure for Future System Architectures: Challenges and Solutions - Leigh, Kevin; Ranganathan, Parthasarathy
• HPL-2006-183 SE3D User Study - Barfield, Lon; Belrose, Guillaume; Hawkes, Rycharde; Toft, Peter; Geelhoed, Erik
• HPL-2006-184 Proportional Service Allocation in Distributed Storage Systems - Wang, Yin; Merchant, Arif
• HPL-2006-185 A System for Privacy-Aware Resource Allocation and Data Processing in Dynamic Environments - Pearson, Siani; Casassa Mont, Marco
• HPL-2006-186 Adaptive color artwork - Giordano, Beretta
• HPL-2006-187 Web-based vs. controlled environment psychophysics experiments - Zuffi, Silvia; Scala, Paolo; Brambilla, Carla; Beretta, Giordano