In this paper we examine the problem of domain adaptation for protein name extraction. First we define the general problem of transfer learning and the particular subproblem of domain adaptation. We then describe some current state of the art supervised and transductive approaches involving support vector machines and maximum entropy models. Using these as inspiration, we turn to the unsupervis...

A network covert channel is a mechanism that can be used to leak information across a network in violation of a security policy and in a manner that can be difficult to detect. Detecting and preventing covert channels is particularly important for multilevel security systems in which processes working with classified information may leak information to processes with a lower classification leve...

Systematic approaches to making decisions in the public sector are becoming very common. Most often, these approaches concern expert decision models. The expansion of the idea of the development of e-participation and e-democracy was influenced by the development of technology. All stakeholders are supposed to participate in decision making, so this brings a new feature to the decision-making p...