OF THE DISSERTATION Data Stream Processing and Query Optimization Techniques

The eStream project has given us a number of insights into design criteria for stream ciphers. Some of them were disputed, on others everyone seemed to agree. In this paper, the author describes what he has learned and what he considers as possible consequences for stream cipher design. The paper does not contain any groundbreaking new results; it is merely meant as a collection of ideas and an...

Pufendorf’s major work on “The Law of Nature and of Nations” has never been considered to have had much influence on economics and on the development of economics as a science. The present paper by no means attempts to propagate a different view. This would be inappropriate. However, what Pufendorf says about the importance of contracts among the members of a community and the formation of supr...

Intelligence analysis involves routinely monitoring and correlating large amount of data streaming from multiple sources. In order to detect important patterns, the analyst normally needs to look at data gathered over a certain time window. Given the size of data and rate at which it arrives, it is usually impossible to manually process every record or case. Instead, automated filtering (classi...