As an academic consultant advising industry, two contrasting experiences are frequent. One is that the industry practitioners have strong domain knowledge that the consultant lacks. The other is that the industry practitioners often suffer from paradigm paralysis, using models of thinking that are either fundamentally inappropriate, or, perhaps more commonly, have become inappropriate through t...

In the 1960s and 70s, researchers paid a great deal of attention to schematic memory, or memory for thematic information. In the 1980s and 90s, this research ground to a halt, in large part because researchers lacked a strong theoretical framework for the study of schematic memory. We suggest that structure-mapping theory, a theory of analogy and similarity comparisons, may provide such a frame...

A tunable and differential treatment of security is needed to achieve the best possible balance between security and performance for wireless applications. In this paper, we present a tunable encryption service that is based on a selective encryption paradigm in which applications can request a desired encryption level. Encryption levels are selected at the inception of a session, but can be ch...