Elements of Classical Information Theory -- Elements of Quantum Information Theory -- Classical, Quantum and Information-Driven Interactions -- The “Active” Role of Information in Biological Systems -- The ‘Passive’ Role of Information in Physics -- Information and the Brain.Infromation and Its Role in Nature presents an in-depth interdisciplinary discussion of the concept of informatio…
Logics for Epistemic Programs -- A Counterexample to Six Fundamental Principles of Belief Formation -- Comparing Semantics of Logics for Multi-Agent Systems -- A Characterization of Von Neumann Games in Terms of Memory -- An Evolutionary Game Theoretic Perspective on Learning in Mult-Agent Systems -- Evolution of Conventional Meaning and Conversational Principles -- Nonmonotonic Inferences and …
Working Late -- Keeping Secrets -- Data Encryption Standard -- Key Length -- Discovery -- RSA Crypto Challenges -- Congress Takes Note -- Supercomputer -- Organizing DESCHALL -- Needle in a Haystack -- Spreading the Word -- The Race Is On -- Clients -- Architecture -- Progress -- Trouble -- Milestones -- Gateways -- Network -- Download -- Short Circuit -- DESCHALL Community -- Proposal -- In th…
Channel Coding -- Error-Control Codes -- Check Digits for Error Detection -- Source Codes -- Statistical Methods -- Dictionary Methods -- Image Compression -- Secure Codes -- Basic Concepts -- Monoalphabetic Substitution Ciphers -- Transposition Ciphers -- Polyalphabetic Substitution Ciphers -- Stream Ciphers -- Block Ciphers -- Public-Key Cryptography -- Data Hiding -- Data Hiding in Images --…
Channel Codes -- Direct-Sequence Systems -- Frequency-Hopping Systems -- Code Synchronization -- Fading of Wireless Communications -- Code-Division Multiple Access -- Detection of Spread-Spectrum Signals.Originally adopted in military networks as a means of ensuring secure communication when confronted with the threats of jamming and interception, spread-spectrum systems are now the core of com…
to XML for Bioinformatics -- Fundamentals of XML and BSML -- DTDs for Bioinformatics -- XML Schemas for Bioinformatics -- Parsing NCBI XML in Perl -- The Distributed Annotation System (DAS) -- Parsing DAS Data with SAX -- Parsing DAS Data with JDOM -- Web Services for Bioinformatics.XML, or Extensible Markup Language, is rapidly becoming a critical tool in bioinformatics and biological data exc…
Invited Papers -- Patterns for the Pragmatic Web -- Conceptual Graphs for Semantic Web Applications -- Knowledge Representation and Reasoning in (Controlled) Natural Language -- What Is a Concept? -- Applications of Description Logics: State of the Art and Research Challenges -- Methodologies for the Reliable Construction of Ontological Knowledge -- Using Formal Concept Analysis and Information…
Invited Talks -- On Bluetooth Repairing: Key Agreement Based on Symmetric-Key Cryptography -- You Can Prove So Many Things in Zero-Knowledge -- Identity Based Cryptography -- Improvements on Security Proofs of Some Identity Based Encryption Schemes -- An ID-Based Verifiable Encrypted Signature Scheme Based on Hess’s Scheme -- ID-Based Signature Scheme Without Trusted PKG -- Security Modelling…
Short Tour Through the Book -- Simplicity & Uncertainty -- Universal Sequence Prediction -- Agents in Known Probabilistics Environments -- The Universal Algorithmic Agent AIXI -- Important Environmental Classes -- Computational Aspects -- Discussion.Decision Theory = Probability + Utility Theory + + Universal Induction = Ockham + Bayes + Turing = = A Unified View of Artificial Intelligence This…
Invited Talk -- All Sail, No Anchor III: Risk Aggregation and Time’s Arrow -- Network Security -- Traversing Middleboxes with the Host Identity Protocol -- An Investigation of Unauthorised Use of Wireless Networks in Adelaide, South Australia -- An Efficient Solution to the ARP Cache Poisoning Problem -- Cryptanalysis -- On Stern’s Attack Against Secret Truncated Linear Congruential Generat…