Abstract. A substantial number of micropayment schemes in the literature are based on distributing the cost of a digital signature over several successive micropayments (e.g. Paywo...
Abstract. We study the impact of malicious synchronization on computer systems that serve customers periodically. Systems supporting automatic periodic updates are common in web se...
Mun Choon Chan, Ee-Chien Chang, Liming Lu, Peng So...
Abstract. The Unified Modelling Language (UML) is intended to describe systems, but it is not clear what systems satisfy a given collection of UML diagrams. Stephen Mellor has desc...
Abstract E-commerce, web-based booking systems, and on-line auction systems are only a few examples that demonstrate how WWW sites are evolving from hypermedia information reposito...
c specifications provide a powerful method for the specification of abstract data types in programming languages and software systems. Completeness and ground confluence are fundam...