Abstract--We propose an automatic method for measuring content-based music similarity, enhancing the current generation of music search engines and recommender systems. Many previo...
We study the effectiveness of automatic patching and quantify the speed of patch or alert dissemination required for worm containment. We focus on random scanning as this is repres...
Tracing IP packets back to their origins is an important step in defending the Internet against denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. Two kinds of IP traceback techniques have been prop...
The upstream activities of software development projects are often viewed as both the most important, the least understood, and hence the most problematic. This is particularly no...
This paper presents a method for analyzing the survivability of distributed network systems and an example of its application. Survivability is the capability of a system to fulfi...
Robert J. Ellison, Richard C. Linger, Thomas A. Lo...