This paper describes a prototype system, ZoneIT, for selectively controlling functionality of mobile devices, e.g. ringing of cellular telephones. ZoneIT exploits the fact that ma...
We show that although unconditionally secure quantum bit commitment is impossible, it can be based upon any family of quantum one-way permutations. The resulting scheme is uncondit...
This paper presents narrative pictograms, diagrams designed to convey the abstract concepts of a software agreement. Narrative pictograms arose out of a need to increase the chanc...
Thread pools are often used as a pattern to increase the throughput and responsiveness of software systems. Implementations of thread pools may differ considerably from each other...
Frank S. de Boer, Immo Grabe, Mohammad Mahdi Jagho...
In this paper, we address the tasks of recognition and interpretation of affect communicated through text messaging. The evolving nature of language in online conversations is a ma...
Alena Neviarouskaya, Helmut Prendinger, Mitsuru Is...