: With the increase in popularity of XML on the Internet, the requirements of database management systems have shifted from traditional transaction-based databases towards the kind...
—The rapid advances in a wide range of wireless access technologies along with an industry-wide IP-convergence have set up the stage for context-aware computing. The “locationâ...
In this paper we give a simple and uniform presentation of the rewriting calculus, also called Rho Calculus. In addition to its simplicity, this formulation explicitly allows us to...
Shannon [Sha48, Sha49] in celebrated works had shown that n bits of shared key is necessary and sufficient to transmit n-bit classical information in an information-theoretically ...
Andris Ambainis, Michele Mosca, Alain Tapp, Ronald...
The information security community has long debated the exact definition of the term `security'. Even if we focus on the more modest notion of confidentiality the precise def...