The paper extends the idea of negative representations of information for enhancing privacy. Simply put, a set DB of data elements can be represented in terms of its complement set. That is, all the elements not in DB are depicted and DB itself is not explicitly stored. We review the negative database (NDB) representation scheme for storing a negative image compactly and propose a design for de...

The Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) is a transport protocol that provides bidirectional unicast connections of congestion-controlled unreliable datagrams. DCCP is suitable for applications that transfer fairly large amounts of data, but can benefit from control over the tradeoff between timeliness and reliability. Kohler/Handley/Floyd [Page 1] INTERNET-DRAFT Expires: 28 May 2006 Nov...

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This document describes a framework for preparing Unicode text strings in order to increase the likelihood that string input and string comparison work in ways that make sense for typical users throughout the world. The stringprep protocol is useful for protocol identifier values, company and personal names, internationalized domain names, and other text strings. This document does not specify ...

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This article provides a formalization of the W3C Draft Core SHACL Semantics specification using Z notation. This formalization exercise has identified a number of quality issues in the draft. It has also established that the recursive definitions in the draft are well-founded. Further formal validation of the draft will require the use of an executable specification technology.

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