The past 20 years of criminal law and practice have produced much heat but little light on the issue of when, if ever, the accused in a criminal case can legitimately seek disclosure of a victim's privileged files that exist exclusively in the custody of a private third party. In many jurisdictions, forced disclosure is routine, and victims must choose between justice and privacy, resulting in ...

In recent years, intelligent building systems have become standard in residential buildings as well as commercial buildings. This chapter presents a novel system for controlling such buildings using natural user interfaces. Due to advanced logic, it is capable of identifying people occupying defined areas and recognizing their gestures. The system cooperates with a Domatiq System – Intelligent ...

In this paper, we develop new subgradient methods for solving nonsmooth convex optimization problems. These methods are the first ones, for which the whole sequence of test points is endowed with the worst-case performance guarantees. The new methods are derived from a relaxed estimating sequences condition, which allows reconstruction of the approximate primal-dual optimal solutions. Our metho...

We present a new, misuse-resistant scheme for online authenticated encryption, following the framework set forth by Fleischmann et al. (FSE 2012). Our scheme, COBRA, is roughly as efficient as the GCM mode of operation for nonce-based authenticated encryption, performing one block cipher call plus one finite field multiplication per message block in a parallelizable way. The major difference fr...

Active participation of demand-side resources in power system control tasks, i.e., demand response, is expected to facilitate the integration of renewable energy sources in the grid. In this paper, we present a novel hierarchical control scheme to enable provision of frequency control reserves by a pool of office buildings managed by an aggregator. The reserves are provided by controlling the c...

The electronic order (e-Ordering) service as an e-business process allows the true business-to-business secure collaboration by giving the opportunity to salesmen and purchasers to execute trustful processes of electronic trading opening new markets. The W3C working draft “Web Service Architecture (WSA) Requirements” and a set of EU Directives impose several security and privacy requirements th...

We further the understanding of the relationship between process calculi and non-commutative logic. This work focuses on, a first-order extension of the proof calculus BV featuring a de Morgan dual pair of nominal quantifiers, called BV1. An embedding of π-calculus process as predicates in BV1 is defined, and a procedure is provided for extracting successful executions from proofs of embedded p...

2.1. The Professional Role of Epidemiologists 2.2. Minimizing Risks and Protecting the Welfare of Research Participants 2.3. Providing Benefits 2.4. Ensuring an Equitable Distribution of Risks and Benefits 2.5. Protecting Confidentiality and Privacy 2.6. Obtaining the Informed Consent of Participants 2.6.1. Elements of informed consent 2.6.2. Avoidance of manipulation or coercion 2.6.3. Conditi...

Many scheduling problems in industry practice are considered as Decentralized Resource-Constrained Multi-Project Scheduling Problem (DRCMPSP). Given its characteristics, the problem must be solved in a decentralized manner while respecting information privacy of projects. However, existing approaches fail in satisfying these requirements, and encounter difficulties in dealing with large cases. ...

Children undergoing long-term hospital care face problems of isolation from their familiar home and school environments. This isolation has an impact on the emotional wellbeing of the child. In this paper we report on research that explores the design of technologies that mitigate some of the negative aspects of separation, while respecting the sensitivities of the hospital, school and home con...