Generating a string of random numbers is easy. The hard part is proving that they’re random. As Dilbert creator Scott Adams once pointed out, “that’s the problem with randomness: you can never be sure ...

Deployment of more and more applications on the cloud and use of the Internet demand careful attention to cyber security threats. Attacks against web applications are the most frequent challenge. To ...

Quantum computers promise enormous computational power, but the nature of quantum states makes computation and data ...

Consider the number of steps needed by algorithms to locate the minimum of functions defined on the d-cube, where the functions are known to have no local minima except the global minimum. Regard this ...

Consider a survival experiment where individuals within a certain subset of the population share a common, unobservable, random frailty. Such a frailty could be an unobservable genetic or early ...