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Toward Characterizing the Performance of SOAP Toolkits

by Madhusudhan Govindaraju, Er Slominski, Kenneth Chiu, Pu Liu, Robert Van Engelen, Michael J. Lewis - In GRID ’04 , 2004
"... To make sure that there are no page numbers printed For final camera-ready version, uncomment the following line The SOAP protocol underpins Web services as the standard mechanism for exchanging information in a distributed environment. The XML-based protocol offers advantages including extensibilit ..."
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. Various SOAP implementations differ in their implementation language, invocation model and API, and supported performance optimizations. In this paper we compare and contrast the performance of widely used SOAP toolkits and draw conclusions about their current performance characteristics. We also provide

A Conceptual Framework and a Toolkit for Supporting the Rapid Prototyping of Context-Aware Applications

by Anind K. Dey, Gregory D. Abowd, Daniel Salber , 2001
"... Computing devices and applications are now used beyond the desktop, in diverse environments, and this trend toward ubiquitous computing is accelerating. One challenge that remains in this emerging research field is the ability to enhance the behavior of any application by informing it of the context ..."
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Computing devices and applications are now used beyond the desktop, in diverse environments, and this trend toward ubiquitous computing is accelerating. One challenge that remains in this emerging research field is the ability to enhance the behavior of any application by informing

Grid Information Services for Distributed Resource Sharing

by Karl Czajkowski , Steven Fitzgerald, Ian Foster, Carl Kesselman , 2001
"... Grid technologies enable large-scale sharing of resources within formal or informal consortia of individuals and/or institutions: what are sometimes called virtual organizations. In these settings, the discovery, characterization, and monitoring of resources, services, and computations are challengi ..."
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Grid technologies enable large-scale sharing of resources within formal or informal consortia of individuals and/or institutions: what are sometimes called virtual organizations. In these settings, the discovery, characterization, and monitoring of resources, services, and computations

Policy gradient methods for reinforcement learning with function approximation.

by Richard S Sutton , David Mcallester , Satinder Singh , Yishay Mansour - In NIPS, , 1999
"... Abstract Function approximation is essential to reinforcement learning, but the standard approach of approximating a value function and determining a policy from it has so far proven theoretically intractable. In this paper we explore an alternative approach in which the policy is explicitly repres ..."
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, but has several limitations. First, it is oriented toward finding deterministic policies, whereas the optimal policy is often stochastic, selecting different actions with specific probabilities (e.g., see In this paper we explore an alternative approach to function approximation in RL. Rather than

Steps toward artificial intelligence

by Marvin Minsky - Computers and Thought , 1961
"... Harvard University. The work toward attaining "artificial intelligence’ ’ is the center of considerable computer research, design, and application. The field is in its starting transient, characterized by many varied and independent efforts. Marvin Minsky has been requested to draw this wor ..."
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Harvard University. The work toward attaining "artificial intelligence’ ’ is the center of considerable computer research, design, and application. The field is in its starting transient, characterized by many varied and independent efforts. Marvin Minsky has been requested to draw

The gSOAP Toolkit for Web Services and Peer-To-Peer Computing Networks

by Robert A. Van Engelen, Kyle A. Gallivan - proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid2002) , 2002
"... This paper presents the gSOAP stub and skeleton compiler. The compiler provides a unique SOAP-to-C/C++ language binding for deploying C/C++ applications in SOAP Web Services, clients, and peer-to-peer computing networks. gSOAP enables the integratation of (legacy) C/C++/Fortran codes, embedded syste ..."
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This paper presents the gSOAP stub and skeleton compiler. The compiler provides a unique SOAP-to-C/C++ language binding for deploying C/C++ applications in SOAP Web Services, clients, and peer-to-peer computing networks. gSOAP enables the integratation of (legacy) C/C++/Fortran codes, embedded

Threatened egotism, narcissism, selfesteem, and direct and displaced aggression: Does self-love or self-hate lead to violence

by Brad J. Bushman, Roy F. Baumeister - Journal of Personality and Social Psychology , 1998
"... It has been widely asserted that low self-esteem causes violence, but laboratory evidence is lacking, and some contrary observations have characterized aggressors as having favorable self-opinions. In 2 studies, both simple self-esteem and narcissism were measured, and then individual participants w ..."
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It has been widely asserted that low self-esteem causes violence, but laboratory evidence is lacking, and some contrary observations have characterized aggressors as having favorable self-opinions. In 2 studies, both simple self-esteem and narcissism were measured, and then individual participants

Firmato: A Novel Firewall Management Toolkit

by Yair Bartal, Alain Mayer, KOBBI NISSIM, AVISHAI WOOL , 2004
"... In recent years packet-filtering firewalls have seen some impressive technological advances (e.g., stateful inspection, transparency, performance, etc.) and wide-spread deployment. In contrast, firewall and security management technology is lacking. In this paper we present Firmato, afirewall manage ..."
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In recent years packet-filtering firewalls have seen some impressive technological advances (e.g., stateful inspection, transparency, performance, etc.) and wide-spread deployment. In contrast, firewall and security management technology is lacking. In this paper we present Firmato, afirewall

Latency Performance of SOAP Implementations

by Dan Davis, Manish Parashar , 2002
"... This paper presents an experimental evaluation of the latency performance of several implementations of Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) operating over HTTP, and compares these results with the performance of JavaRMI, CORBA, HTTP, and with the TCP setup time. SOAP is an XML based protocol that s ..."
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of ine#- ciency in the current implementations of SOAP and discuss changes that can improve their performance. SOAP implementations studied include Microsoft SOAP Toolkit, the SOAP::Lite Perl module, and Apache SOAP. Keywords---Performance study, SOAP, JavaRMI, CORBA, Network programming I.

NetLogger: a Toolkit for Distributed System Performance Tuning and Debugging. In:

by Brian Tierney , Dan Gunter - IFIP/IEEE Eighth International Symposium on Integrated Network Management, , 2003
"... Abstract Developers and users of high-performance distributed systems often observe performance problems such as unexpectedly low throughput or high latency. Determining the source of the performance problems requires detailed end-to-end instrumentation of all components, including the applications ..."
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's behavior in order to characterize the performance of all aspects of the system and network in detail during actual operation. The monitoring is designed to facilitate identification of bottlenecks, performance tuning, and network performance research. It also allows accurate measurement of throughput and
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