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How to Get Multi-Agent Systems Accepted in Industry?
March 21, 2009, 12:00am PDT
With many researchers in the multi-agent system community, the authors share the opinion that too much of the quality and relevant research in the area of multi-agent systems is under-represented...
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An Architectural Strategy for Self-Adapting Systems
September 26, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Self-adaptation is the ability of a software system to adapt to dynamic and changing operating conditions autonomously. In this paper, the authors present an architectural strategy for...
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Computer Aided Modelling Exercises
January 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
The main goal of the course "Object-oriented business modelling" is to familiarise students with object-oriented analysis techniques and to have them acquire the necessary skills to actually...
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A Phased Deployment of a Workflow Infrastructure in the Enterprise Architecture
August 3, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Many organizations migrate to Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) since it caters for the demanded flexibility and reusability in information systems. Besides delineating appropriate business...
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On the Definition of Service Granularity and Its Architectural Impact
March 13, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Service granularity generally refers to the size of a service. The fact that services should be large-sized or coarse-grained is often postulated as a fundamental design principle of Service...
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Privacy Weaknesses in Biometric Sketches
April 7, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The increasing use of biometrics has given rise to new privacy concerns. Biometric encryption systems have been proposed in order to alleviate such concerns: rather than comparing the biometric...
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Provable Security of BLAKE With Non-Ideal Compression Function
November 17, 2011, 12:00am PST
Hash functions are a main building block for numerous cryptographic applications. Due to a series of attacks on the widely deployed SHA-1 hash function by Wang et al., the US National Institute...
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On Security Arguments of the Second Round SHA-3 Candidates
March 19, 2012, 12:00am PDT
In 2007, the US National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) announced a call for the design of a new cryptographic hash algorithm in response to vulnerabilities like differential...
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Somewhat Practical Fully Homomorphic Encryption
March 17, 2012, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors port Brakerski's fully homomorphic scheme based on the Learning With Errors (LWE) problem to the ring-LWE setting. They introduce two optimised versions of...
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On the Collision and Preimage Security of MDC-4 in the Ideal Cipher Model
February 24, 2012, 12:00am PST
The authors present the first collision and preimage security analysis of MDC-4, a 24 years old construction for transforming an n-bit block cipher into a 2n-bit hash function. These results then...
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Multi-Stage Aspect-Oriented Composition of Component-Based Applications
September 9, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The creation of distributed applications requires sophisticated compositions, as various components - supporting application logic or non-functional requirements - must be assembled and configured...
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SASHA: A Distributed Protocol for Secure Application Deployment in Shared Ad-HocWireless Sensor Networks
August 26, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Wireless ad-hoc sensor networks in industrial settings often consist of multiple independent parties, each owning a subset of the nodes. In order to reduce costs, minimize time to market and...
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MASY: MAnagement of Secret KeYs for Federated Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks
March 15, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Wireless Sensor Networks are becoming federated and mobile environments. These new capabilities pose a lot of new possibilities and challenges. One of these challenges is to create a secure...
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Policy-Driven Tailoring of Sensor Network
October 22, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The emerging reality of wireless sensor networks deployed as long-lived infrastructure mandates an approach to tailor developed arte-facts at run-time to avoid costly reprogramming. Support for...
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Applying a MultiParadigm Approach to Implementing Wireless Sensor Network Based River Monitoring
August 13, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper describes the application of the DisSeNT middleware to implement Wireless Sensor Network based river monitoring. DisSeNT provides LooCI, an efficient runtime reconfigurable component...
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Extending Middleware Frameworks for Wireless Sensor Networks
January 12, 2010, 12:00am PST
The authors define sensor middleware as the binding code mainly running between the sensor OS and applications providing programming abstractions to bridge the gap between application developers...
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Evolving Wireless Sensor Network Behavior Through Adaptability Points in Middleware Architectures
July 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Reflection has been proven to be a powerful mechanism to address software adaptation in middleware architectures; however this concept requires that the middleware be open and that modification of...
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Improving Memory Management Security for C and C++
March 20, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Memory managers are an important part of any modern language: they are used to dynamically allocate memory for use in the program. Many managers exist and depending on the operating system and...
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Security by Contract on the .NET Platform
May 16, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Over the last few years, the success of GPS-enabled PDAs has finally instigated a breakthrough of mobile devices. Many people now already have a device that can connect to the internet and run...
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Integrated Management of Network and Security Devices in IT Infrastructures
August 12, 2011, 12:00am PDT
IT infrastructures just needs to work and at the same time adapt to changing requirements. A significant amount of their downtime is caused by configuration errors and because all other subsystems...
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Middleware for Resource Sharing in Multi-Purpose Wireless Sensor Networks
October 20, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In order to improve application reaction times and decrease overall transmission overhead, Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) applications are being developed to push intelligence into the network. In...
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Expressing and Configuring Quality of Data in Multipurpose Wireless Sensor Networks
October 20, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are evolving towards interconnected, sensing, processing and actuating infrastructures that are expected to provide services for multiple concurrent applications....
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Security in Context: Analysis and Refinement of Software Architectures
April 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Security analysis methods can provide correct yet meaningless results if the assumptions underlying the model do not conform to reality. The authors present an approach to analyze the security of...
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HProxy: Client-Side Detection of SSL Stripping Attacks
August 2, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In today's world wide web hundreds of thousands of companies use SSL to protect their customers' transactions from potential eavesdroppers. Recently, a new attack against the common usage of SSL...
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Middleware for Adaptive Group Communication in Wireless Sensor Networks
October 14, 2010, 12:00am PDT
While the size and heterogeneity of wireless sensor networks confirm the need and benefit of group communication, an intelligent approach that exploits the interaction pattern and network context...
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Challenge-Response Based Secure Test Wrapper for Testing Cryptographic Circuits
March 29, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Cryptographic circuits need a special test infrastructure due to security constraints. Typical Design For Testability (DFT) methods, such as scan chains, as applied to most ASICs can not be...
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Secure and Privacy-Friendly Logging for eGovernment Services
March 11, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents a scheme for building a logging trail for processes related to eGovernment services. A citizen can reconstruct the trail of such a process and verify its status if he is the...
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A Self-Certified and Sybil-Free Framework for Secure Digital Identity Domain Buildup
April 30, 2009, 12:00am PDT
An attacker who can control arbitrarily many user identities can break the security properties of most conceivable systems. This is called a "Sybil attack". This paper presents a solution to this...
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Extended Abstract: The Butterfly PUF Protecting IP on Every FPGA
July 3, 2008, 12:00am PDT
IP protection of hardware designs is the most important requirement for many FPGA IP vendors. To this end, various solutions have been proposed by FPGA manufacturers based on the idea of bitstream...
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Demonstration of Unobservable Voice Over IP
April 22, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper describes UV: a two-node system for unobservable voice communication on the Internet. UV provides unobservability of communication by hiding the fact that there is a conversation taking...
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Anonymous ID-Based Group Key Agreement Scheme Applied in Virtual Private Ad Hoc Networks
August 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
As more and more mobile devices interconnect through large scale IP networks, new network architectures become important. A Virtual Private Ad Hoc Network (VPAN) provides such architecture in...
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Increased Resilience in Threshold Cryptography: Sharing a Secret With Devices That Cannot Store Shares
April 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Threshold cryptography has been used to secure data and control access by sharing a private cryptographic key over different devices. This means that a minimum number of these devices, the...
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Ethical Guidelines for Computer Security Researchers: "Be Reasonable"
February 27, 2010, 12:00am PST
For most of its existence, the field of computer science has been lucky enough to avoid ethical dilemmas by virtue of its relatively benign nature. The sub-disciplines of programming methodology...
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PKI Layer Cake: New Collision Attacks Against the Global X.509 Infrastructure
March 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Research unveiled in December of 2008 showed how MD5's long-known flaws could be actively exploited to attack the real-world Certification Authority infrastructure. This paper demonstrates two new...
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A Secure Low-Delay Protocol for Multi-Hop Wireless Body Area Networks
October 9, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The development of Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) for wireless sensing and monitoring of a person's vital functions, is an enabler in providing better personal health care whilst enhancing...
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Untraceable RFID Authentication Protocols: Revision of EC-RAC
March 13, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) systems are steadily becoming paramount due to their vast applications such as supply chains, inventory, tolling, baggage management, access control etc....
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Practical Experiences With NFC Security on Mobile Phones
June 19, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents the practical experiences in implementing a secure NFC application on mobile phones. First, the authors present the characteristics of the NFC technology and its security...
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Design Methods for Embedded Security
November 11, 2009, 12:00am PST
Embedded devices need both an efficient and a secure implementation of cryptographic algorithms. In this overview paper the authors show a typical top-down approach for secure and efficient...
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Efficient Implementation of Anonymous Credentials on Java Card Smart Cards
September 22, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The Direct Anonymous Attestation scheme allows mapping procedures with an imperative requirement for anonymity, such as voting, to the electronic world while offering provable security. However,...
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Security Properties of Domain Extenders for Cryptographic Hash Functions
December 6, 2010, 12:00am PST
Cryptographic hash functions reduce inputs of arbitrary or very large length to a short string of fixed length. All hash function designs start from a compression function with fixed length...
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Secure Remote Reconfiguration of FPGAs
December 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper presents a solution for secure remote reconfiguration of FPGAs. Communicating the bitstream has to be done in a secure manner to prevent an attacker from reading or altering the...
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A Compact Architecture for Montgomery Elliptic Curve Scalar Multiplication Processor
September 16, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper proposes a compact architecture of a Montgomery elliptic curve scalar multiplier in a projective coordinate system over GF (2m). To minimize the gate area of the architecture, the...
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Staying Home Or Moving Away? Effect Of Restructuring On Employment In Multinational Headquarters And Their Affiliates
March 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper analyzes employment growth in Belgian multinational enterprises' headquarters relative to their affiliates. The authors find that headquarters have on average 2.5% more employment...
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Business Ethics - What?
March 4, 2010, 12:00am PST
Business ethics is a branch of applied ethics. It treats ethical aspects of human actions within the sphere of business organizations and professional activities. As such, it is concerned with...
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The Future of Software Engineering and Multi-Agent Systems
March 21, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In spite of the massive research efforts by the multi-agent system community, the state of the art in multi-agent systems is insufficiently reflected in state of the practice of complex...
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Backup of Electricity From Wind Power: Operational Backup Methods Analysed
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The paper focuses on some methods for consideration of the backup requirements of wind power on the short term. The focus is therefore set on the operational backup. Insights are gained into the...
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Extending Programming Languages to Deal With the Challenges of Service-Oriented Computing
September 10, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Object-oriented programming languages ignore challenges introduced by implemented service-oriented applications. They force the programmer to implement non-functional code in order to realize...
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Detecting Known and New Salting Tricks in Unwanted Emails
April 11, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Spam and phishing emails are not only annoying to users, but are a real threat to internet communication and web economy. The fight against unwanted emails has become a cat-and-mouse game between...
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Protect Network-Based Power Grid Applications From Denial of Service Attacks
January 19, 2009, 12:00am PST
Today distributed industrial networks use Internet to transmit feedback and control signals between a plant and a controller. However there are several attacks on the Internet. From these attacks...
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Improving Intrusion Detection Through Alert Verification
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) suffer from a lack of scalability. Alert correlation has been introduced to address this challenge and is generally considered to be the major part of the...
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Multi-Relational Data Mining, Using UML for ILP
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Although there is a growing need for multi-relational data mining solutions in KDD, the use of obvious candidates from the field of Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) has been limited. In one's...
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Multi-Relational Data Mining
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
An important aspect of data mining algorithms and systems is that they should scale well to large databases. A consequence of this is that most data mining tools are based on machine learning...
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