In Escherichia coli cells, the origin of chromosomal replication is temporarily inactivated after initiation has occurred. Origin sequestration is the first line of defence against over-initiation, providing a time window during which the initiation potential can be reduced by: (i) titration of DnaA proteins to newly replicated chromosomal elements; (ii) regulation of the activity of the DnaA i...

We enumerate requirements and give constructions for the vote storage unit of an electronic voting machine. In this application, the record of votes must survive even an unexpected failure of the machine; hence the data structure should be durable. At the same time, the order in which votes are cast must be hidden to protect the privacy of voters, so the data structure should be history-indepen...

There are numerous applications that require on–line access to a history of business events. Ideally, both historical and current data should be logically integrated into some form of temporal database, also known as a multi– version database, historical database, or rollback database. The underlying access method should support the migration of old record versions onto inexpensive write–once m...

This paper proposed a novel method to protect logging information more securely. The method, named NIGELOG, produces multiple backups of the logging information, hides them in arbitrary directories, and periodically moves these backups to other directories. Also, NIGELOG can automatically restore the original logging information by using the backups even if the original le is altered or deleted...

DS is a dependable and secure data storage for mobile, wireless networks based on a peer-to-peer paradigm. DS provides support to create and share files under a write-once model, and ensures data confidentiality and dependability by encoding files in a Redundant Residue Number System. The paper analyzes the code efficiency of DS using a set of moduli allowing for efficient encoding and decoding...

PressPot is a system that adds annotations to Java .class files. [3] These annotations are used by an “annotation-aware” Java Virtual Machine (JVM) which uses these annotations to generate high-quality machine code quickly. If these annotated .class files are sent to a normal JVM, they are ignored and the program runs normally. One of the annotations, used for assigning machine registers, is ca...

DS is a dependable and secure data storage for mobile, wireless networks based on a peer-to-peer paradigm. DS provides support to create and share files under a write-once model, and ensures data confidentiality and dependability by encoding files in a Redundant Residue Number System. The paper analyzes the code efficiency of DS using a set of moduli allowing for efficient encoding and decoding...