Delayed acknowledgments were introduced to conserve network and host resources. Further reduction of the acknowledgment frequency can be motivated in the same way. However, reduci...
Uncontrolled overload can lead e-commerce applications to considerable revenue losses. For this reason, overload prevention in these applications is a critical issue. In this pape...
In recent years, a large amount of work on chaos-based cryptosystems have been published. However many of the proposed schemes fail to explain or do not possess a number of featur...
Partial rollback mechanism has been widely supported by many database management systems (DBMSs). It allows a transaction to be rolled back partially, that is, only back to a cert...
Abstract Reasoning about the termination of equational programs in sophisticated equational languages such as ELAN, MAUDE, OBJ, CAFEOBJ, HASKELL, and so on, requires support for ad...