As software evolves, maintenance practices require a process of accommodating changing requirements while minimizing the cost of implementing those changes. Over time, incompatibi...
This paper describes PayCash, an Internet payment system that was designed to offer strong security and privacy protection. This system is based on the concept of electronic cash,...
In this paper, we propose four architectures for intrusion-tolerant database systems. While traditional secure database systems rely on prevention controls, an intrusion-tolerant ...
In this paper, we propose a new framework for mining frequent patterns from large transactional databases. The core of the framework is of a novel coded prefix-path tree with two...
The impact of pipeline length on the performance of a microprocessor is explored both theoretically and by simulation. An analytical theory is presented that shows two opposing ar...