As the aspirations of the two rising Asian powers collide, the China-India rivalry is likely to shape twenty-first-century international politics in the region and far beyond.This volume by T.V. Paul and an international group of leading scholars examines whether the rivalry between the two countries that began in the 1950s will intensify or dissipate in the twenty-first century. The China-India relationship is important to analyze because past experience has shown that when two ri...

This work illustrates China’s values and how they are practiced. After introducing readers to the theories, systematical structure, historical status, and influence of traditional Chinese values, it points out major developmental trends in connection with modernization. Further, it explores the significance of the contemporary reconstruction of Chinese values and argues that these values can be divided into three layers: values-based goals of national development, Chinese values concepts, ...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Applications and Techniques in Information Security, ATIS 2015, held in Beijing, China, in November 2015.The 25 revised full papers and 10 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 103 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on invited speeches; cryptograph; evaluation, standards and protocols; trust computing and privacy protection; cloud security and applicat...

The experts of the International Working Group-Landau Network Centro Volta (IWG-LNCV) discuss aspects of cyber security and present possible methods of deterrence, defense and resilience against cyber attacks. This SpringerBrief covers state-of-the-art documentation on the deterrence power of cyber attacks and argues that nations are entering a new cyber arms race. The brief also provides a technical analysis of possible cyber attacks towards critical infrastructures in the chemical indust...

Malicious software (i.e., malware) has become a severe threat to interconnected computer systems for decades and has caused billions of dollars damages each year. A large volume of new malware samples are discovered daily. Even worse, malware is rapidly evolving becoming more sophisticated and evasive to strike against current malware analysis and defense systems.Automatic Malware Analysis presents a virtualized malware analysis framework that addresses common challenges i...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed conference proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Risk Assessment and Risk-Driven Quality Assurance, RISK 2016, held in conjunction with ICTSS 2016, in Graz, Austria, in October 2016.The revised 9 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 11 submissions. They focus on research studying, developing and evaluating innovative techniques, tools, languages and methods risk assessment and risk-driven quality engineeri...

Today, when a security incident happens, the top three questions a cyber operation center would ask are: What has happened? Why did it happen? What should I do? Answers to the first two questions form the core of Cyber Situation Awareness (SA). Whether the last question can be satisfactorily addressed is largely dependent upon the cyber situation awareness capability of an enterprise.The goal of this book is to present a summary of recent research advances in the development of hig...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Post-Quantum Cryptography, PQCrypto 2016, held in Fukuoka, Japan, in February 2016.The 16 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions. The papers cover all technical aspects of multivariate polynomial cryptography, code-based cryptography, lattice-based cryptography, quantum algorithms, post-quantum protocols, and implementations.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science, SOFSEM 2016, held in Harrachov, Czech Republic, in January 2016.The 43 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 116 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: foundations of computer science; software engineering: methods, tools, applications; and data, information, and knowledge engineering. Th...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Principles of Security and Trust, POST 2016, which took place in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in April 2016, held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2016.The 12 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 35 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: information flow; models and applications; protocols.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Selected Areas in Cryptography, SAC 2013, held in Burnaby, Canada, in August 2013. The 26 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 98 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: lattices; discrete logarithms; stream ciphers and authenticated encryption; post-quantum (hash-based and system solving); white box crypto; block ciphers; elliptic curves, pairings and RSA; ...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Information Systems Security, ICISS 2015, held in Kolkata, India, in December 2015.The 24 revised full papers and 8 short papers presented together with 4 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 133 submissions. The papers address the following topics: access control; attacks and mitigation; cloud security; crypto systems and protocols; information flow control; sensor networks a...