We describe how any two-party quantum computation, specified by a unitary which simultaneously acts on the registers of both parties, can be privately implemented against a quantum version of classical semi-honest adversaries that we call specious. Our construction requires two ideal functionalities to garantee privacy: a private SWAP between registers held by the two parties and a classical pr...

Developers use various methods and approaches to find bugs and performance bottlenecks in their programs. One of the effective and widely used approach is application profiling by dynamic instrumentation. There are many various tools based on dynamic instrumentation. Each tool has its own benefits and limitations what often forces developers to use several of them for profiling. For example, in...

Order-independent (OI) queues, introduced by Berezner, Kriel, and Krzesinski in 1995, expanded the family of multi-class queues that are known to have a product-form stationary distribution allowing for intricate class-dependent service rates. This paper further broadens this introducing pass-and-swap (P&S) an extension OI where, upon completion, customer completes is not necessarily one leaves...

This paper tests a model based on Wall's (Wall, L., 1989. Journal of Banking and Finance 13, 261±270) hypothesis of agency cost reduction using interest rate swaps. We ®nd a signi®cant positive relationship between the risk of the ®rm and the reduction of agency costs measured by the continuously compounded excess return (CAR) of the ®rm. Our ®ndings are consistent with WallÕs hypothesis and ot...

The forensics community is increasingly embracing the use of memory analysis to enhance traditional storage-based forensics techniques, because memory analysis yields a wealth of information not available on non-volatile storage. Memory analysis involves capture of a system's physical memory so that the live state of a system can be investigated, including executing and terminated processes, ap...