In automated negotiation systems consisting of selfinterested agents, contracts have traditionally been binding, i.e., impossible to breach. Such contracts do not allow the agents...
Abstract. Agent interaction protocols are usually specified in terms of permissible sequences of messages. This representation is, unfortunately, brittle and does not allow for ...
Abstract. Distributed transactional systems require an atomic commitment protocol to preserve atomicity of the ACID properties. However, the industry leading standard, 2PC, is slow...
Abstract Benny Pinkas HP Labs Abstract. We demonstrate a transformation of Yao’s protocol for secure two-party computation to a fair protocol in which neither party gains any sub...
We study the two-party commitment problem, where two players have secret values they wish to commit to each other. Traditional commitment schemes cannot be used here because they d...
Moses Liskov, Anna Lysyanskaya, Silvio Micali, Leo...