Large-scale web and text retrieval systems deal with amounts of data that greatly exceed the capacity of any single machine. To handle the necessary data volumes and query through...
Modern distributed information retrieval techniques require accurate knowledge of collection size. In non-cooperative environments, where detailed collection statistics are not av...
Single sign-on is critical for the usability of distributed systems. While there are several authentication mechanisms which support single sign-on (e.g. Kerberos and X.509), it m...
An Air Force evaluation of Multics, and Ken Thompson’s famous Turing award lecture “Reflections on Trusting Trust,” showed that compilers can be subverted to insert maliciou...
Signature-based schemes for detecting Internet worms often fail on zero-day worms, and their ability to rapidly react to new threats is typically limited by the requirement of som...
David Whyte, Paul C. van Oorschot, Evangelos Krana...