“Radio Frequency Identification” (RFID) and the related EPC standards promise to enable an automatic collection of supply chain data for optimization purposes. While extensive...
Verification of reachability properties for probabilistic systems is usually based on variants of Markov processes. Current methods assume an exact model of the dynamic behavior a...
In 1987, Gray and Putzolo presented the five-minute rule, which was reviewed and renewed ten years later in 1997. With the advent of flash memory in the gap between traditional RA...
A number of research studies show that the operating system has a substantial influence on communication delay in distributed environments. Thus, in order to provide applications w...
Cryptographic hash functions are often built on block ciphers in order to reduce the security of the hash to that of the cipher, and to minimize the hardware size. Proven secure co...