In the quest for an elegant formulation of the notion of "polycategory" we develop a more symmetric counterpart to Burroni's notion of "T-category", where ...
A simple variant of a priority queue, called a soft heap, is introduced. The data structure supports the usual operations: insert, delete, meld, and findmin. Its novelty is to beat...
Givena Hermitian,non-negativede nitekernelK and a character of the symmetric group on n letters, de ne the corresponding immanant function K x1;::: ;xn := P Qn i=1 Kxi;x i, where ...
Agents (hardware or software) that act autonomously in an environment have to be able to integrate three basic behaviors: planning, execution, and learning. This integration is man...
Abstract. Since the appearance of public-key cryptography in the seminal DiffieHellman paper, many new schemes have been proposed and many have been broken. Thus, the simple fact t...