Generalized Vickrey mechanisms have received wide attention in the literature because they are efficient and strategyproof, i.e. truthful bidding is optimal whatever the bids of o...
—In the routing and cost sharing of multicast towards a group of potential receivers, cross-monotonicity is a property that states a user’s payment can only be smaller when ser...
In this paper we present techniques by which each mix in a mix network can be paid for its services by message senders, in a way that ensures fairness and without sacrificing anon...
A fair network payment protocol plays an important role in electronic commerce. The fairness concept in payments can be illustrated as that two parties (e.g. customers and merchant...
This paper focuses on the problem of how to allow sharing of copyrighted content between a set of authorised devices and preventing unauthoried copying of content to other devices...