Nowadays the current network-centric world has given rise to several security concerns regarding the access control management, which en- sures that only authorized users are given access to certain resources or tasks. ...

Several real-life problems as well as problems of theoretical importance within the field of Operations Research are combinatorial in nature. Combinatorial Optimization deals with decision-making problems defined on a ...

The era of Big Data is leading the generation of large amounts of data, which require storage and analysis capabilities that can be only ad- dressed by distributed computing systems. To facilitate large-scale distributed ...

This thesis is focused on synthesis. In formal veri cation synthesis can be referred to the controller synthesis and the system synthesis. This work combines both this area of research. First we focus on synthesizing ...

The Internet is an extraordinary communications medium but it is not free from problems that are limiting its potential further development. In this dissertation we analyze and address some of the issues that make it an ...