Considerable research has been done on detecting and blocking portscan activities that are typically conducted by infected hosts to discover other vulnerable hosts. However, the f...
Time zones play an important and unexplored role in malware epidemics. To understand how time and location affect malware spread dynamics, we studied botnets, or large coordinated...
This paper formalizes the semantics of trust and studies the transitivity of trust. On the Web, people and software agents have to interact with “strangers”. This makes trust ...
The increasing complexity of clinical trials has generated an enormous requirement for knowledge and information specification at all stages of the trials, including planning, doc...
Ravi D. Shankar, Susana B. Martins, Martin J. O'Co...
In first person shooter (FPS) games the round trip time (RTT) (delay, or ‘lag’) between a client and server is an important criterion for players when deciding which server to ...
Grenville J. Armitage, Carl Javier, Sebastian Zand...