Electronic institutions are a formalism to define and analyse protocols among agents with a view to achieving global and individual goals. In this paper we propose a definition of ...
The deferred update technique is a widely used approach for building replicated database systems. Its fame stems from the fact that read-only transactions can execute locally to a...
A key step in the semantic analysis of network traffic is to parse the traffic stream according to the high-level protocols it contains. This process transforms raw bytes into s...
Ruoming Pang, Vern Paxson, Robin Sommer, Larry L. ...
This paper presents a new multi-unit auction protocol (IR protocol) that is robust against false-name bids. Internet auctions have become an integral part of Electronic Commerce a...
Bad error handling is the cause of many service outages. We address this problem by a novel approach to detect and patch bad error handling automatically. Our approach uses error ...