Functionality defense by heterogeneity: A new paradigm for securing systems

Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn 37, Issue , 2004, Pages 2937-2946

  Sharman, Raj ^a   Rao, H R ^a   Upadhyaya, Shambhu ^b   Khot, Partha ^b   Manocha, Sumit ^b   Ganguly, Saumitra ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b the State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER VIRUSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; FUNCTIONALITY DEFENSE; HUMAN COMMUNITIES; SELF HEALING MECHANISM;

SECURITY SYSTEMS;

EID: 12344324603     PISSN: 10603425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/hicss.2004.1265448     Document Type: Conference Paper

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