Contains papers from a May 2000 symposium, covering all areas of computer security and electronic privacy. Papers were selected on the basis of scientific novelty, importance to the field, and technical quality. Material is in sections on access control, applications to cryptography, achievability of electronic privacy, protocol analysis and design, open source in security, intrusion detection, assurance, and key management. Specific topics include efficient authentication and signing of multicast streams over lossy channels, engineering tradeoffs and the evolution of provably secure protocols, and robust nonproprietary software. Lacks a subject index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Logic Programming, ICLP 2003, held in Mumbai, India in December 2003. The 23 revised full papers and 19 poster papers presented together with 5 invited full contributions and abstracts of 4 invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from 81 submissions. All current issues in logic programming are addressed.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First European Public Key Infrastructure Workshop: Research and Applications, EuroPKI 2004, held on Samos Island, Greece in June 2004. The 25 revised full papers and 5 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 73 submissions. The papers address all current issues in PKI, ranging from theoretical and foundational topics to applications and regulatory issues in various contexts.

Since the 1980s, software agents and multi-agent systems have grown into what is now one of the most active areas of research and development activity in computing generally. One of the most important reasons for the current intensity of interest in the agent-based computing paradigm certainly is that the concept of an agent as an autonomous system, capable of interacting with other agents in order to satisfy its design objectives, is a natural one for software designers. This recognition has led to the growth of interest in agents as a new paradigm for software engineering. This book reflects the state of the art in the field by presenting 14 revised full papers accepted for the second workshop on this topic, AOSE 2001, together with five invited survey articles. The book offers topical sections on societies and organizations, protocols and interaction frameworks, UML and agent systems, agent-oriented requirements capture and specification, and analysis and design.

Computing and communication capabilities are increasingly embedded in diverse objects and structures in the physical environment. They will link the ‘cyberworld’ of computing and communications with the physical world. These applications are called cyber physical systems (CPS). Obviously, the increased involvement of real-world entities leads to a greater demand for trustworthy systems. Hence, we use "system trustworthiness" here, which can guarantee continuous service in the presence of internal errors or external attacks. Mobile CPS (MCPS) is a prominent subcategory of CPS in which the physical component has no permanent location. Mobile Internet devices already provide ubiquitous platforms for building novel MCPS applications. The objective of this Special Issue is to contribute to research in modern/future trustworthy MCPS, including design, modeling, simulation, dependability, and so on. It is imperative to address the issues which are critical to their mobility, report significant advances in the underlying science, and discuss the challenges of development and implementation in various applications of MCPS.