Preventing abusive resource consumption is indispensable for all kinds of systems that
execute untrusted mobile coee, such as mobile object sytems, extensible web servers, and …

Language run-time systems are increasingly being embedded in systems to support run-
time extensibility via mobile code. Such systems raise a number of concerns when the code …

This paper deals with a new approach to build a completely distributed and decentralized
Intrusion Detection and Response System (IDRS) in computer networks. This approach is …

Temporal databases naturally contain a wealth of information that can be unearthed by
knowledge discovery and data mining techniques. Discovering association rules in market …

The Java resource accounting framework, second edition (J-RAF2), is a portable CPU-
management framework for Java environments. It is based on fully automated program …

Disclosed is a method for managing resource usage of a particular resource by a set of
related code, such as code executed on behalf of a downloaded applet. A resource indicator …

Java is the predominant language for mobile agent systems, both for implementing mobile
agent execution environments and for writing mobile agent applications. This is due to …

Disclosed is a method for executing a remote method. Each argument of the remote method
is wrapped when the argument is a remote object (eg the argument's declared class …

Bytecode rewriting is a portable way of altering Java's behavior by changing Java classes
themselves as they are loaded. This mechanism allows us to modify the semantics of Java …

Accounting for the CPU consumption of applications is crucial for software development to
detect and remove performance bottlenecks (profiling) and to evaluate the performance of …