Power-law correlations have been observed in packet flow over the Internet. The possible origin of these correlations includes demand for Internet services. We observe the demand for e-mail services in an organization, and analyze correlations in the flow and the sequence of send requests using a Detrended Fluctuation Analysis (DFA). The correlation in the flow is found to be weaker than that i...

This paper presents Secure MultiMedia Mail System (SMMM), a secure multimedia electronic mail system that deals with issues related to security, network traffic reduction and storage management of multimedia messages. The composition of M/H (multimedia/hypermedia) messages in SMMM is based on NCM (Nested Context Model), a conceptual model for hypermedia documents. SMMM provides support for mult...

*Division of Computer and Information Sciences, Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey, 110 Frelinghuysen Road, Piscataway, NJ 88854-8019, USA. E-mail: [email protected] **Department of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 2202 Kraft Dr. KWII, Blacksburg, VA 24060, USA. E-mail: [email protected] ***Department of Public Policy and Administration, Rutger...

Luciano Kay, Center for Nanotechnology in Society, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, e-mail: [email protected] Nils Newman, Intelligent Information Services Corporation, Atlanta, GA, USA, email: [email protected] Jan Youtie, Enterprise Innovation Institute & School of Public Policy, Atlanta, GA, USA, e-mail: [email protected] Alan L. Porter, School o...