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Peering Through the iFrame
January 14, 2011, 12:00am PST
Drive-by-download attacks have become the method of choice for cyber-criminals to infect machines with malware. Previous research has focused on developing techniques to detect web sites involved...
Provided by University of Birmingham
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White Papers
Untraceability in the Applied Pi-Calculus
September 23, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The use of RFID tags in personal items, such as passports, may make it possible to track a person's movements. Even RFID protocols that encrypt their identity may leak enough information to let an...
Provided by University of Birmingham
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White Papers
IP Transmission Over OCDMA-LAN
October 22, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper proposes a novel Internet Protocol (IP) traffic transmission over multiple array (M-ary) Frequency Shift Keying Optical Code-Division Multiple-Access (FSK-OCDMA) local area network...
Provided by University of Birmingham
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White Papers
Open Source Verification Under a Cloud
August 25, 2010, 12:00am PDT
An experiment in providing volunteer cloud computing support for automated audits of open source code is described here, along with the supporting theory. Certification and the distributed and...
Provided by University of Birmingham
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White Papers
How to Detect an Android
June 8, 2010, 12:00am PDT
A number of prominent researchers in Artificial Intelligence look forward to a time when androids will co-exist with humans. In such a world the question 'Can Machines Think?' will be answered in...
Provided by University of Birmingham
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White Papers
Self-Optimizing Architecture for Ensuring Quality Attributes in the Cloud
August 7, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper describes various challenges in ensuring Quality Attributes (QA) of applications hosted in the cloud and hence the perceived quality of service of the cloud as a whole. This paper...
Provided by University of Birmingham
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White Papers
Human Resource Management And Decentralization In Botswana And South Africa
November 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper seeks to understand the relationship between decentralization and human resource management in Botswana and South Africa. The study is situated within the context of the New Public...
Provided by University of Birmingham
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Assessing The Impact Of European Integration On The Foreign Policy-Making In Central And Eastern Europe: The Cases Of Hungary, Romania, And Slovakia
April 25, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper discusses how the European integration influences the domestic structures and processes of foreign policy-making in the new member states from Central and Eastern Europe, namely in...
Provided by University of Birmingham
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White Papers
Combination of GSM and GPS Signals for Mobile Positioning and Location Service Using Kalman Filter
July 4, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Location based services are becoming an emerging market due to technological advances achieved both at GSM phone operators and the multimedia nature of the mobile handsets. In this paper, a new...
Provided by University of Birmingham
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White Papers
Phase-Modulations Analyses in Coherent Homodyne Optical CDMA Network Using a Novel Prime Code Family
July 4, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines the Bit-Error Rate (BER) for an Optical direct-detection Code-Division Multiple-Access (OCDMA) system employing a novel prime code family, hereby referred to as 'Double-Padded...
Provided by University of Birmingham
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White Papers
Learning By Exporting: Evidence Based On Data Of Knowledge Flows From Innovation Surveys In Estonia
February 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper studies learning-by-exporting, based on survey data of knowledge flow indicators. Most of the earlier related papers investigate the effects of exporting on productivity of firms, and...
Provided by University of Birmingham
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White Papers
Designated Confirmer Signatures With Unified Verification
March 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
After the introduction of Designated Confirmer Signatures (DCS) by Chaum in 1994, considerable researches have been done to build generic schemes from standard digital signatures and construct...
Provided by University of Birmingham
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White Papers
Function Interface Models for Hardware Compilation: Types, Signatures, Protocols
July 4, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The problem of synthesis of gate-level descriptions of digital circuits from behavioral specifications written in higher-level programming languages (hardware compilation) has been studied for a...
Provided by University of Birmingham
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Using A Third Party In Business-To-Business (B2B) Communication: Towards A Terminology Framework
August 18, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The emphasis of this paper lies in the discussion of communications messages in which a third party is used to enhance the effect of messages transmitted by the business marketer to their target...
Provided by University of Birmingham
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Graphical Modeling for Simulation and Formal Analysis of Wireless Network Protocols
May 18, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The aim of this paper is to enhance performance analysis of wireless networks based on simulation with formal performance analysis. It is well-known that the performance of protocols for wireless...
Provided by University of Birmingham
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A Literature Review And Future Agenda For B2B Branding: Challenges Of Branding In A B2B Context
August 29, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Purpose of the paper and literature addressed: The existing body of research knowledge on brand management has been predominantly derived from business to consumer markets, particularly fast...
Provided by University of Birmingham
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Analysing Unlinkability and Anonymity Using the Applied Pi Calculus
June 28, 2010, 12:00am PDT
An attacker that can identify messages as coming from the same source can use this information to build up a picture of targets' behaviour, and so, threaten their privacy. In response to this...
Provided by University of Birmingham
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Composition of Password-Based Protocols
April 23, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors investigate the composition of protocols that share a common secret. This situation arises when users employ the same password on different services. More precisely they study whether...
Provided by University of Birmingham
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White Papers
Calculating Probabilistic Anonymity From Sampled Data
May 9, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper addresses the problem of calculating the anonymity of a system statistically from a number of trial runs. The authors show that measures of anonymity based on capacity can be estimated,...
Provided by University of Birmingham
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White Papers
A Traceability Attack Against e-Passports
March 8, 2010, 12:00am PST
Since 2004, many nations have started issuing "e-passports" containing an RFID tag that, when powered, broadcasts information. It is claimed that these passports are more secure and that the...
Provided by University of Birmingham
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White Papers
Statistical Measurement of Information Leakage
March 30, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Information theory provides a range of useful methods to analyze probability distributions and these techniques have been successfully applied to measure information flow and the loss of anonymity...
Provided by University of Birmingham
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White Papers
A Lifecycle Approach to Evaluating MyArtSpace
March 30, 2009, 12:00am PDT
MyArtSpace is a service on mobile phones for enquiry-led museum learning. It enables students to create their own interpretations of museum visits through descriptions of objects, images and...
Provided by University of Birmingham
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What Would Hume Make Of Our Current Theories And Our Current Economic Predicament? And What Should We Make Of His Views On Government Debt?
June 23, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper aims to offer observations on two things: first, what Hume would make of the present predicament of economics and the economy; and second, what today's economists should make of his...
Provided by University of Birmingham
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Chinese Monetary Policy And The Dollar Peg
December 21, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper investigates to what extent Chinese monetary policy is constrained by the dollar peg. To this end, the authors use a cointegration framework to examine whether Chinese interest rates...
Provided by University of Birmingham
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White Papers
Prediction-Based Opportunistic Greedy Routing for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks
September 11, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In recent years, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) applications e.g. active traffic management, safety application, etc. are gaining popularity. Again internet-based services are also...
Provided by University of Birmingham
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White Papers
An Authentication Framework for Wireless Sensor Networks Using Identity-Based Signatures
April 30, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), authentication is a crucial security requirement to avoid attacks against secure communication, and to mitigate DoS attacks exploiting the limited resources of...
Provided by University of Birmingham
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White Papers
Parameterless Broadcasting in Static to Highly Mobile Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor and Actuator Networks
February 17, 2008, 12:00am PST
In a broadcasting task, source node wants to send the same message to all the other nodes in the network. Existing solutions range from Connected Dominating Set (CDS) based for static networks, to...
Provided by University of Birmingham
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White Papers
An Active Constraint Method for Optimal Multicast Message Transmission in Wireless Networks
August 15, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Efficiently transmitting data in wireless networks requires joint optimization of routing, scheduling, and power control. Also, transmitting data to multiple destinations (multicasting) in an...
Provided by University of Birmingham
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White Papers
Securing Pseudo Identities in an Anonymous Peer-to-Peer File-Sharing Network
June 25, 2007, 12:00am PDT
MUTE is an anonymous peer-to-peer network that is used by hundreds of thousands of people to share files. Peers in this network are identified by randomly chosen pseudo identities and a...
Provided by University of Birmingham
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White Papers
A Test for the Two-Sample Problem Using Mutual Information to Fix Information Leak in e-Passports
February 8, 2011, 12:00am PST
For two independently drawn samples from continuous distributions, a statistical test based on the mutual information statistic is proposed for the null hypothesis that both the samples originate...
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A Statistical Test for Information Leaks Using Continuous Mutual Information
May 26, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors present a statistical test for detecting information leaks in systems with continuous outputs. They use continuous mutual information to detect the information leakage from trial runs...
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Efficient Identity-Based Threshold Signature Scheme From Bilinear Pairings in the Standard Model
February 19, 2012, 12:00am PST
The authors propose a new Identity-Based THreshold Signature (IBTHS) scheme from bilinear pairings enjoying the following advantages in efficiency, security and functionality. The round-complexity...
Provided by University of Birmingham
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An Automata-Theoretic Model of Objects
October 9, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors present a new model of class-based Algol-like programming languages inspired by automata-theoretic concepts. The model may be seen as a variant of the "Object-based"...
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Semantics of Parametric Polymorphism in Imperative Programming Languages
October 12, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Programming languages such as CLU, Ada and Modula-3 have included facilities for parametric polymorphism and, more recently, C++ and Java have also added similar facilities. In this paper, the...
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Semantics of Parametric Polymorphism in Imperative Programming Languages
October 12, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Programming languages such as CLU, Ada and Modula-3 have included facilities for parametric polymorphism and, more recently, C++ and Java have also added similar facilities. In this paper, the...
Provided by University of Birmingham
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White Papers
An Automata-Theoretic Model of Objects
October 9, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors present a new model of class-based Algol-like programming languages inspired by automata-theoretic concepts. The model may be seen as a variant of the "Object-based"...
Provided by University of Birmingham
-
White Papers
Efficient Identity-Based Threshold Signature Scheme From Bilinear Pairings in the Standard Model
February 19, 2012, 12:00am PST
The authors propose a new Identity-Based THreshold Signature (IBTHS) scheme from bilinear pairings enjoying the following advantages in efficiency, security and functionality. The round-complexity...
Provided by University of Birmingham
-
White Papers
A Statistical Test for Information Leaks Using Continuous Mutual Information
May 26, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors present a statistical test for detecting information leaks in systems with continuous outputs. They use continuous mutual information to detect the information leakage from trial runs...
Provided by University of Birmingham
-
White Papers
A Test for the Two-Sample Problem Using Mutual Information to Fix Information Leak in e-Passports
February 8, 2011, 12:00am PST
For two independently drawn samples from continuous distributions, a statistical test based on the mutual information statistic is proposed for the null hypothesis that both the samples originate...
Provided by University of Birmingham
-
White Papers
Securing Pseudo Identities in an Anonymous Peer-to-Peer File-Sharing Network
June 25, 2007, 12:00am PDT
MUTE is an anonymous peer-to-peer network that is used by hundreds of thousands of people to share files. Peers in this network are identified by randomly chosen pseudo identities and a...
Provided by University of Birmingham
-
White Papers
An Active Constraint Method for Optimal Multicast Message Transmission in Wireless Networks
August 15, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Efficiently transmitting data in wireless networks requires joint optimization of routing, scheduling, and power control. Also, transmitting data to multiple destinations (multicasting) in an...
Provided by University of Birmingham
-
White Papers
Parameterless Broadcasting in Static to Highly Mobile Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor and Actuator Networks
February 17, 2008, 12:00am PST
In a broadcasting task, source node wants to send the same message to all the other nodes in the network. Existing solutions range from Connected Dominating Set (CDS) based for static networks, to...
Provided by University of Birmingham
-
White Papers
An Authentication Framework for Wireless Sensor Networks Using Identity-Based Signatures
April 30, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), authentication is a crucial security requirement to avoid attacks against secure communication, and to mitigate DoS attacks exploiting the limited resources of...
Provided by University of Birmingham
-
White Papers
Prediction-Based Opportunistic Greedy Routing for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks
September 11, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In recent years, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) applications e.g. active traffic management, safety application, etc. are gaining popularity. Again internet-based services are also...
Provided by University of Birmingham
-
White Papers
Peering Through the iFrame
January 14, 2011, 12:00am PST
Drive-by-download attacks have become the method of choice for cyber-criminals to infect machines with malware. Previous research has focused on developing techniques to detect web sites involved...
Provided by University of Birmingham
-
White Papers
Chinese Monetary Policy And The Dollar Peg
December 21, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper investigates to what extent Chinese monetary policy is constrained by the dollar peg. To this end, the authors use a cointegration framework to examine whether Chinese interest rates...
Provided by University of Birmingham
-
White Papers
What Would Hume Make Of Our Current Theories And Our Current Economic Predicament? And What Should We Make Of His Views On Government Debt?
June 23, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper aims to offer observations on two things: first, what Hume would make of the present predicament of economics and the economy; and second, what today's economists should make of his...
Provided by University of Birmingham
-
White Papers
A Lifecycle Approach to Evaluating MyArtSpace
March 30, 2009, 12:00am PDT
MyArtSpace is a service on mobile phones for enquiry-led museum learning. It enables students to create their own interpretations of museum visits through descriptions of objects, images and...
Provided by University of Birmingham
-
White Papers
Statistical Measurement of Information Leakage
March 30, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Information theory provides a range of useful methods to analyze probability distributions and these techniques have been successfully applied to measure information flow and the loss of anonymity...
Provided by University of Birmingham
-
White Papers
A Traceability Attack Against e-Passports
March 8, 2010, 12:00am PST
Since 2004, many nations have started issuing "e-passports" containing an RFID tag that, when powered, broadcasts information. It is claimed that these passports are more secure and that the...
Provided by University of Birmingham
-
White Papers
Calculating Probabilistic Anonymity From Sampled Data
May 9, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper addresses the problem of calculating the anonymity of a system statistically from a number of trial runs. The authors show that measures of anonymity based on capacity can be estimated,...
Provided by University of Birmingham
-
White Papers
Composition of Password-Based Protocols
April 23, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors investigate the composition of protocols that share a common secret. This situation arises when users employ the same password on different services. More precisely they study whether...
Provided by University of Birmingham
-
White Papers
Analysing Unlinkability and Anonymity Using the Applied Pi Calculus
June 28, 2010, 12:00am PDT
An attacker that can identify messages as coming from the same source can use this information to build up a picture of targets' behaviour, and so, threaten their privacy. In response to this...
Provided by University of Birmingham
-
White Papers
A Literature Review And Future Agenda For B2B Branding: Challenges Of Branding In A B2B Context
August 29, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Purpose of the paper and literature addressed: The existing body of research knowledge on brand management has been predominantly derived from business to consumer markets, particularly fast...
Provided by University of Birmingham
-
White Papers
Graphical Modeling for Simulation and Formal Analysis of Wireless Network Protocols
May 18, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The aim of this paper is to enhance performance analysis of wireless networks based on simulation with formal performance analysis. It is well-known that the performance of protocols for wireless...
Provided by University of Birmingham
-
White Papers
Using A Third Party In Business-To-Business (B2B) Communication: Towards A Terminology Framework
August 18, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The emphasis of this paper lies in the discussion of communications messages in which a third party is used to enhance the effect of messages transmitted by the business marketer to their target...
Provided by University of Birmingham
-
White Papers
Function Interface Models for Hardware Compilation: Types, Signatures, Protocols
July 4, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The problem of synthesis of gate-level descriptions of digital circuits from behavioral specifications written in higher-level programming languages (hardware compilation) has been studied for a...
Provided by University of Birmingham
-
White Papers
Designated Confirmer Signatures With Unified Verification
March 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
After the introduction of Designated Confirmer Signatures (DCS) by Chaum in 1994, considerable researches have been done to build generic schemes from standard digital signatures and construct...
Provided by University of Birmingham
-
White Papers
Learning By Exporting: Evidence Based On Data Of Knowledge Flows From Innovation Surveys In Estonia
February 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper studies learning-by-exporting, based on survey data of knowledge flow indicators. Most of the earlier related papers investigate the effects of exporting on productivity of firms, and...
Provided by University of Birmingham
-
White Papers
Phase-Modulations Analyses in Coherent Homodyne Optical CDMA Network Using a Novel Prime Code Family
July 4, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines the Bit-Error Rate (BER) for an Optical direct-detection Code-Division Multiple-Access (OCDMA) system employing a novel prime code family, hereby referred to as 'Double-Padded...
Provided by University of Birmingham
-
White Papers
Combination of GSM and GPS Signals for Mobile Positioning and Location Service Using Kalman Filter
July 4, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Location based services are becoming an emerging market due to technological advances achieved both at GSM phone operators and the multimedia nature of the mobile handsets. In this paper, a new...
Provided by University of Birmingham
-
White Papers
Assessing The Impact Of European Integration On The Foreign Policy-Making In Central And Eastern Europe: The Cases Of Hungary, Romania, And Slovakia
April 25, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper discusses how the European integration influences the domestic structures and processes of foreign policy-making in the new member states from Central and Eastern Europe, namely in...
Provided by University of Birmingham
-
White Papers
Human Resource Management And Decentralization In Botswana And South Africa
November 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper seeks to understand the relationship between decentralization and human resource management in Botswana and South Africa. The study is situated within the context of the New Public...
Provided by University of Birmingham
-
White Papers
Self-Optimizing Architecture for Ensuring Quality Attributes in the Cloud
August 7, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper describes various challenges in ensuring Quality Attributes (QA) of applications hosted in the cloud and hence the perceived quality of service of the cloud as a whole. This paper...
Provided by University of Birmingham
-
White Papers
How to Detect an Android
June 8, 2010, 12:00am PDT
A number of prominent researchers in Artificial Intelligence look forward to a time when androids will co-exist with humans. In such a world the question 'Can Machines Think?' will be answered in...
Provided by University of Birmingham
-
White Papers
Open Source Verification Under a Cloud
August 25, 2010, 12:00am PDT
An experiment in providing volunteer cloud computing support for automated audits of open source code is described here, along with the supporting theory. Certification and the distributed and...
Provided by University of Birmingham
-
White Papers
IP Transmission Over OCDMA-LAN
October 22, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper proposes a novel Internet Protocol (IP) traffic transmission over multiple array (M-ary) Frequency Shift Keying Optical Code-Division Multiple-Access (FSK-OCDMA) local area network...
Provided by University of Birmingham
-
White Papers
Untraceability in the Applied Pi-Calculus
September 23, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The use of RFID tags in personal items, such as passports, may make it possible to track a person's movements. Even RFID protocols that encrypt their identity may leak enough information to let an...
Provided by University of Birmingham
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