Libmonitor is a library that provides hooks into a program and provides callback functions for monitoring the begin and end of processes and threads and maintains control across fork, exec and in the presence of signals. It provides a layer on which to build first-party profiling tools for performance or correctness. Libmonitor is lightweight, fully scalable, easy to use and does not require ac...

Introduction Ordinal TM Nsort TM is a high-performance sort program for SGI IRIX, Sun Solaris and HP-UX servers. Nsort allows its users to realize the full processing potential of their multi-processor, multi-disk Unix systems for sorting data. Unlike the slow, single-threaded Unix sort utility or other third-party sort programs that achieve only minor processing parallelism, only Nsort can use...

1Austin, J.A., Jr., Christie-Blick, N., Malone, M.J., et al., 1998. Proc. ODP, Init. Repts., 174A: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program). 2Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, NY 10964, U.S.A. [email protected] 3University of Texas Institute for Geophysics, 4412 Spicewood Springs Road, Building 600, Aus...

We study a semi-supervised learning method based on the similarity graph and Regularized Laplacian. We give convenient optimization formulation of the Regularized Laplacian method and establish its various properties. In particular, we show that the kernel of the method can be interpreted in terms of discrete and continuous time random walks and possesses several important properties of proximi...

Secure multi-party computation (SMC) techniques are increasingly becoming more efficient and practical thanks to many recent novel improvements. The recent work have shown that different protocols that are implemented using different sharing mechanisms (e.g., boolean, arithmetic sharings, etc.) may have different computational and communication costs. Although there are some works that automati...

Demand-side load reduction is a key benefit of Smart Grids. However, existing demand response optimization (DR) programs fail to effectively leverage the near-realtime information available from smart meters and Building Area Networks to respond dynamically to changing energy use profiles. We investigate the use of semantic Complex Event Processing (CEP) patterns to model and detect dynamic sit...

Demand for Redistribution, Support for the Welfare State, and Party Identification in Austria This paper describes subjective wage inequality and the demand for redistribution in Austria using individuals' estimates of occupational wages from the International Social Survey Program. Although these estimates differ widely across individuals, the data clearly show that most individuals would like...

The CmapTools program, and concept mapping in general, have seen a steady growth in usage in the last few years. With new users come new requirements and needs for the software that we can’t always satisfy. Until now, the CmapTools architecture has been relatively closed to third party developers. In this paper we report on a new open architecture, KE (Knowledge Exchange Architecture), that pro...

We provide an economic analysis of the incentives created by an antitrust leniency program, with particular attention to incentives created for effort directed at the concealment of collusion. The results point to a need for competition authorities to consider the effects of concealment when evaluating economic evidence of collusion. The results also suggest possible benefits from increasing pe...