This paper presents a theoretical and experimental study on the limitations of copy-on-write snapshots and incremental backups in terms of data recoverability. We provide mathemat...
Scientists are increasingly using large distributed systems built from commodity off-the-shelf components to perform scientific computation. Grid computing has expanded the scale ...
In this paper we give a specification of a new block cipher that can be called the Courtois Toy Cipher (CTC). It is quite simple, and yet very much like any other known block ciph...
ct 7 Modern technology is succeeding in delivering more information to people at ever faster rates. Under traditional 8 views of rational decision making where individuals should e...
Knowledge discovery, that is, to analyze a given massive data set and derive or discover some knowledge from it, has been becoming a quite important subject in several fields incl...