Algorithms and data structures

Research oriented non-repudiation protocols have been active since the beginning of this millennium.

Over the past two decades, network technologies have been remarkably renovated and computer networks, particularly the Internet, have permeated into every facet of our daily lives.

A Modular Calculus for the Average Cost of Data Structuring introduces MOQA, a new domain-specific programming language which guarantees the average-case time analysis of its programs to be modular.

The Computer Science is relatively new field which is developing very fast not only because due to the huge interest of scientists and the market request, but also because this science has created possibilities for people of investigation and solved many problems that some time ago seemed to be insolvable.

Biometrics is becoming increasingly common in establishments that require high security such as state security and financial sectors.

This book helps practitioners gain a working understanding of issues involved in improving data quality through editing, imputation, and record linkage.

Telecommunications networks are a critical component of the economic and social infrastructures in which we live.

Smart Cards, Tokens, Security and Applications provides a broad overview of the many card systems and solutions that are in practical use today.

Cryptographic Engineering is the first book that discusses the design techniques and methods.

Biometrics is a rapidly evolving field with applications ranging from accessing one's computer to gaining entry into a country.

In recent years, a new class of applications has come to the forefront { p- marily due to the advancement in our ability to collect data from multitudes of devices, and process them e ciently.

Gluecklich, die wissen, dass hinter allen Sprachen das Unsaegliche steht.

Introduction The description, planning and governance of nanotechnology development require data on knowledge creation and innovation in various areas of application, how these evolve in time and what is the international context.

Terrorism informatics has been defined as the application of advanced methodologies, information fusion and analysis techniques to acquire, integrate process, analyze, and manage the diversity of terrorism-related information for international and homeland security-related applications.

Do-All Computing for Distributed Systems: Cooperation in the Presence of Adversity studies algorithmic issues associated with cooperative execution of multiple independent tasks by distributed computing agents including partitionable networks.

"e;Gratzer's book is a solution.

Online Business Security Systems applies the concept of synchronization to security of global heterogeneous and hetero-standard systems by modeling the relationship of risk access spots (RAS) between advanced and developing economies network platforms.

Group-oriented communications will play a significant role in the next generation of networks as many services, such as pay-per-view media broadcasts and the delivery of network control messages, will rely upon the ability to reliably deliver data simultaneously to a large group of users.

Botnets have become the platform of choice for launching attacks and committing fraud on the Internet.

The open design of the Internet has not only opened many new opp- tunities for communications, but it has also opened many new avenues for attackers against organisations network and computing resources.

Intuitively, a sequence such as 101010101010101010.

Computer and network security is an issue that has been studied for many years.

Hypercomputation is a relatively new theory of computation that is about computing methods and devices that transcend the so-called Church-Turing thesis.

The central theme of this book is the solution of Diophantine equations, i.

This book deals with several aspects of what is now called "e;explicit number theory.

"e;The book is outstanding and admirable in many respects.

Queueing Theory deals with systems where there is contention for resources, but the demands are only known probabilistically.

Genetic Programming Theory and Practice IV was developed from the fourth workshop at the University of Michigan's Center for the Study of Complex Systems to facilitate the exchange of ideas and information related to the rapidly advancing field of Genetic Programming (GP).

RSA is the first workable and practicable public-key cryptographic system, based on the use of large prime numbers.

Motivation for the book Database security has been gaining a great deal of importance as industry, military, and government organizations have increasingly adopted Internet-based techno- gies on a large-scale, because of convenience, ease of use, and the ability to take advantage of rapid advances in the commercial market.

Company network administrators are compelled today to aggressively pursue a robust network security regime.

Data warehousing and data mining provide techniques for collecting information from distributed databases and for performing data analysis.

The recent technological advances have made it possible to deploy small, l- power, low-bandwidth, and multi-functional wireless sensor nodes to monitor and report the conditions and events in their local environments.

Localization is a critical process in mobile ad hoc networks and wireless sensor networks.

Preserving Privacy for On-Line Analytical Processing addresses the privacy issue of On-Line Analytic Processing (OLAP) systems.

As postal liberalization gains momentum, traditional postage meter markets are being transformed into digital meter markets for enterprise mailers.

Shared resources, such as the Internet, have created a highly interconnected cyber-infrastructure.

One of the challenges for computational intelligence and biometrics is to understand how people process and recognize faces and to develop automated and reliable face recognition systems.

Power analysis attacks allow the extraction of secret information from smart cards.

Data and knowledge play a key role in both current and future GRIDs.

Multivariate public key cryptosystems (MPKC) is a fast-developing new area in cryptography.

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The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is the successor to the Data Encryption Standard, and is potentially the world's most important block cipher (a method for encrypting text).

Solving multi-objective problems is an evolving effort, and computer science and other related disciplines have given rise to many powerful deterministic and stochastic techniques for addressing these large-dimensional optimization problems.

Cryptographic solutions using software methods can be used for those security applications where data traffic is not too large and low encryption rate is tolerable.

Customer-Oriented Optimization in Public Transportation develops models, results and algorithms for optimizing public transportation from a customer-oriented point of view.

Smart Networks comprises the proceedings of Smartnet'2002, the seventh conference on Intelligence in Networks, which was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and organized by Working Group 6.

Intelligence in Networks is a concept, the meaning of which is highly related to the time-period when it is used.

1 This year marks the l0 h anniversary of the IFIP International Workshop on Protocols for High-Speed Networks (PfHSN).

The 7th Annual Working Conference of ISMSSS (lnformation Security Management and Small Systems Security), jointly presented by WG 11.