Taking a Break. Some Thoughts about Media Consumption

Some thoughts about classification

The paper contains some general remarks on the high art of data analysis, some philosophical thoughts about classification, a partial review of outliers and robustness from the point of view of applications, including a discussion of the problem of model choice, and a review of several aspects of robust estimation of covariance matrices, including the pragmatic choice of a weight function based...

Some Thoughts about Commitment Protocols

From the seminal paper by Singh [1], commitments protocols have been raising a lot of attention. The key feature of commitment protocols is their declarative nature, which allows specifying them in a way which abstracts away from any reference to the actual behaviour of the agents. By doing so, commitment protocols respect the autonomy of agents. After more than ten years from the introduction ...

Some thoughts about schizoid dynamics.

Some Thoughts About a Metadata Management System

Under the challenge set by the new technical possibilities, the concept of metadata and meta-information has grown in importance in a spectacular way. Congresses and work groups on various aspects of data processing pay attention to it, and it has become the subject of conferences of its own. Software for data management refers to metadata, and there is software specifically designed for metada...

Some Thoughts about Implementing a Cryptographic System

The majority of failures of cryptographic systems occur not in their design but rather in their implementation and use. Many of the errors and practices leading to these failures have been made repeatedly suggesting the existence of a fundamental problem. We discuss some of the weaknesses which have been introduced into otherwise presumably secure cryptographic systems during these phases and l...