Hierarchical modularity is a familiar characteristic of a large class of natural dynamical systems. A normal interpretation of modularity is that interactions between subsystems a...
We present a novel definition of privacy in the framework of offline (retroactive) database query auditing. Given information about the database, a description of sensitive data, ...
Alexandre V. Evfimievski, Ronald Fagin, David P. W...
Abstract. In this paper, we identify some problems with current formalizations of conditional commitments, i.e. commitments to achieve a goal if some condition becomes true. We pre...
In this paper, we review some recent results about the use of dynamic observers for fault diagnosis of discrete event systems. Dynamic observers can switch sensors on or off, thus ...
Background: More and more disordered regions have been discovered in protein sequences, and many of them are found to be functionally significant. Previous studies reveal that dis...