In 1999, when most of the computer industry’s cautionary buzz centered on finding and fixing Y2K flaws, a small group of MITRE engineers began work on the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures dictionary. Prior to CVE, no standard nomenclature existed for network security holes. In fact, the security landscape was rife with different names for the same vulnerability, as vendors strove to differe...

y now you have probably heard more than you really care to about the " millennium crisis, " also known as the Year 2000 problem or—license plate style —Y2K. If you haven't brushed off the whole thing altogether, you've probably included in your New Year's resolution plan for January 1, 2000, to wait a little before rushing to the airport, stepping into an elevator, or cashing in on your mutual ...

2 Running title: Uropathogenic E. coli from pregnant women 3 4 Nubia L. Ramos*, Musa Sekikubo*, Dang Thi Ngoc Dzung, Corinna Kosnopfel, Fred 5 Kironde, Florence Mirembe, Annelie Brauner# 6 7 Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Division of Clinical Microbiology, 8 Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital, 17176 Stockholm, Sweden 9 Department of Obstetrics and Gyna...

A variety of laser applications in space, past, present, future and far future are reviewed together with the contributions of some of the scientists and engineers involved, especially those that happen to have South African connections. Historically, two of the earliest laser applications in space, were atmospheric LIDAR and lunar ranging. These applications involved atmospheric physicists, se...

Until the global economic downturn of the new millennium, demand for information technology (IT) professionals exceeded supply mostly due to specific skill sets such as integrating legacy applications with Web development, project management , telecommunications, mobile commerce, and enterprise resource planning. More firms are turning externally not only to local vendors but also to services a...

0 7 4 0 7 4 5 9 / 0 1 / $ 1 0 . 0 0 © 2 0 0 1 I E E E problem; this impediment became known as the 500-Language Problem. In 1998, we realized that we had discovered a breakthrough in solving the 500LP— so we had something to offer regarding the Y2K problem. We immediately informed all the relevant Y2K solution providers and people concerned with the Y2K awareness campaign. In answer to our emai...

In this paper we develop a sound, complete and terminating superposition calculus plus a query answering calculus for the BSH-Y2 fragment of the Bernays – Schönfinkel Horn class of first-order logic. BSH-Y2 can be used to represent expressive ontologies. In addition to checking consistency, our calculus supports query answering for queries with arbitrary quantifier alternations. Experiments on ...

A broken snapshot represents a snapshot from a project’s change history that cannot be compiled. Broken snapshots can have significant implications for researchers, as they could hinder any analysis of the past project history that requires code to be compiled. Noticeably, while some broken snapshots may be observable in change history repositories (e.g., no longer available dependencies), some...

Selfish users are known to be a severe security threat for wireless ad-hoc networks. In particular, they can exploit mechanisms designed to assure QoS in the network. In this paper the problem of backoff misbehavior in IEEE 802.11 EDCA networks is studied using a game-theoretic approach. First, it is shown how this selfish behavior can disrupt traffic differentiation. Then, a solution is propos...

3 INTRODUCTION The security of our nation, the viability of our economy, and the health and well being of our citizens rely today on infrastructures for communication, finance, energy distribution, and transportation. All of these infrastructures depend increasingly on networked information systems. That dependence, with its new levels and kinds of vulnerabilities, is attracting growing attenti...