This paper presents a new distributed approach to detecting DDoS (distributed denial of
services) flooding attacks at the traffic-flow level The new defense system is suitable for …

The disclosure relates to a method of authenticating a digital credential of a bearer by a
validating device, the method including capturing the bearer credential by the validating …

A self-adaptive software system modifies its behavior at runtime in response to changes
within the system or in its execution environment. The fulfillment of the system requirements …

Feature oriented programming (FOP) is an emerging paradigm for application synthesis,
analysis, and optimization. A target application is specified declaratively as a set of features …

Adaptive systems dynamically change their behavior or structure at runtime to respond to
environmental changes. This paper considers one class of adaptive systems-those that …

Self-adaptive software systems are capable of adjusting their behavior at runtime to achieve
certain functional or quality-of-service goals. Often a representation that reflects the internal …

The protection of privacy is an increasing concern in our networked society because of the
growing amount of personal information that is being collected by a number of commercial …

Model-driven engineering (MDE) often features quality assurance (QA) techniques to help
developers creating software that meets reliability, efficiency, and safety requirements. In this …

Dynamically changing environments and threat landscapes require adaptive information
security. Adaptive information security makes it possible to change and modify security …

We conduct more and more of our daily interactions over electronic media. The EC-funded
project PRIME (Privacy and Identity Management for Europe) envisions that individuals will …