When selecting alternatives from large amounts of data, trade-offs play a vital role in everyday decision making. In databases this is primarily reflected by the top-k retrieval p...
—A firewall is a security guard placed between a private network and the outside Internet that monitors all incoming and outgoing packets. The function of a firewall is to exam...
Today’s network intrusion prevention systems (IPSs) must perform increasingly sophisticated analysis—parsing protocols and interpreting application dialogs rather than simply ...
— WLANs will become a major portion of the fourth generation (4G) cellular system. The seamless handoff problem in WLANs is a very important design issue to support the new astou...
To reason effectively about programs, it is important to have some version of a transitive-closure operator so that we can describe such notions as the set of nodes reachable from ...
Neil Immerman, Alexander Moshe Rabinovich, Thomas ...