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Constraining Pictures with Pictures

This paper presents a visual language called Miro for specifying and restricting operating system security configurations. A Miro picture specifies exactly what rights users have on files. A Miro constraint, also stated visually, restricts the set of Miro pictures which are considered legal. Such constraints on pictures give an exact specification of security policies and a practical method for...

The statistical laws of popularity: universal properties of the box-office dynamics of motion pictures

Are there general principles governing the process by which certain products or ideas become popular relative to other (often qualitatively similar) competitors? To investigate this question in detail, we have focused on the popularity of movies as measured by their box-office income. We observe that the log-normal distribution describes well the tail (corresponding to the most successful movie...

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The charter of SRC is to advance both the state of knowledge and the state of the art in computer systems. From our establishment in 1984, we h a v e performed basic and applied research to support Digital's business objectives. Our current w ork includes exploring distributed personal computing on multiple platforms, networking, programming technology, system modelling and management technique...

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