nodes. DSNs may be deployed in hostile areas where communication is monitored and nodes are subject to capture and surreptitious use by an adversary. Hence DSNs require cryptographic protection of communications, sensorcapture detection, key revocation and sensor disabling. In this paper, we present a

scale This work considers the problem of using multiple small, lowcost robots, with a limited range of local communication ability, to collaboratively search and engage an indeterminate number of tasks in an unknown large-scale hostile area. In this paper, we provide an approach, which we refer

A number of real-world security scenarios can be cast as a problem of transiting an area patrolled by a mobile adversary, where the transiting agent aims to choose its route so as to minimize the probability of encountering the patrolling agent, and vice versa. We model this problem as a twoplayer

of some earlier results where only k = 1 is assumed. Applications of the result include determining insufficiently covered areas in a sensor network, enhancing fault-tolerant capability in hostile regions, and conserving energies of redundant sensors in a randomly deployed network. Our solutions can

and on the notion of observational equivalence. 1 Introduction Wide area networks hold great promises in terms of distributed computing. Applications that scale to the size of the Internet and seamlessly provide access to massive amounts of information and value added services are now technically feasible

ii Hostile Media Effect This thesis investigated a new area in communication research—the hostile media effect (HME). HME is the tendency by partisans to perceive hostile bias in news coverage that appears evenhanded and objective to a neutral audience. This thesis argues that media consumers

Empirical research on anger and hostility has pervaded the academic literature for more than 50 years. Accurate measurement of anger/hostility and subse-quent interpretation of results requires that the instruments yield strong psy-chometric properties. For consistent measurement, reliability

to Adobe ® Acrobat® Reader ® version 5.0.1 provides a case study. The study applied 141,306 unique test cases and revealed 11 distinct indications of buffer overrun, numerous program lock-ups, and four steganographic possibilities. Research is on-going in the following areas: generalized buffer overrun

such communities from invasion. This suggests that geographical “edges of survivability ” may provide the conditions under which cooperation can emerge and discriminating mechanisms evolve. The evolution of economic altruism is one of the most vigorous areas of study at the intersection of biology, economics

Abstract International peacebuilding can improve the prospects that a civil war will be resolved. Although peacebuilding strategies must be designed to address particular conflicts, broad parameters that fit most conflicts can be identified. Strategies should address the local roots of hostility