This paper describes the low-interaction server honeypot Amun. Through the use of emulated vulnerabilities Amun aims at capturing malware in an automated fashion. The use of the scriping language Python, a modular design, and the possibility to write vulnerability modules in XML allow the honeypot to be easily maintained and extended to personal needs.

Services that are delivered over the Internet—e-services— pose unique problems yet offer unprecedented opportunities. In this paper, we classify e-services along the dimensions of their level of digitization and the nature of their target markets (business-to-business, business-toconsumer, consumer-to-consumer). Using the case of application services, we analyze how they differ from traditional...

S-1.1 More About Planning Experiments Coleman and Montgomery (1993) present a discussion of methodology and some guide sheets useful in the pre-experimental planning phases of designing and conducting an industrial experiment. The guide sheets are particularly appropriate for complex, highpayoff or high-consequence experiments involving (possibly) many factors or other issues that need careful ...

FDBG (short for Finite domain DeBuGger) is a tool addressing the problems of debugging nite domain (FD) constraint programs. Implemented as a SICStus Prolog library, it allows CLP(FD) programmers to trace FD variable domain changes. FDBG is capable of detecting the wake-up of constraints as well as the steps of labeling, and it reports the e ects of these events on the variables. The simplest w...

The ubiquity of the Internet and e-mail has resulted in a burgeoning interest in their potential for academic research. This paper summarizes the existing practices of Internet research and suggests extensions to them based on the design and administration of a large-scale, national Web survey. These extensions include consideration of new capabilities such as adaptive questions and higher leve...

On-the-fly replacement of software may require simultanous distributed updates of components. If an update changes some interfaces or protocols, the update must be performed in a globally consistent manner. This paper describes an architecture of a dynamically updatable component-based system that unifies research within architecture definitions, architecture configuration, and dynamic software...

Software transformation methods are enacted during a migration project to perform the technical transition of a legacy system to a new environment. A critical task of each project is to construct a situation-specific transformation method. In this paper, we categorize current Situational Method Engineering (SME) approaches that support the construction of situation-specific transformation metho...

A system is described which digests large volumes of text, filtering out irrelevant articles and distilling the remainder into templates that represent information from the articles in simple slot/filler pairs. The system is highly modular in that it consists of a series of programs, each of which contributes information to the text to help in the final analysis of determining which strings con...

We consider a class of systems influenced by perturbations that are nonlinearly parameterized by unknown constant parameters, and develop a method for estimating the unknown parameters. The method applies to systems where the states are available for measurement, and perturbations with the property that an exponentially stable estimate of the unknown parameters can be obtained if the whole pert...

Convention dictates that the design of a language begins with its syntax. The authors of this chapter argue that early emphasis should be placed instead on the identification of general, compositional semantic domains, and that grounding the design process in semantics leads to languages with more consistent and more extensible syntax. They demonstrate this semantics-driven design process throu...