We have investigated two major issues in Distributed Information Retrieval (DIR), namely: collection selection and search results merging. While most published works on these two ...
This paper deals with the problem of constructing a Hamiltonian cycle of optimal weight, called TSP. We show that TSP is 2/3-differential approximable and can not be differential a...
Conflict resolution is a critical problem in distributed and collaborative multi-agent systems. Negotiation via argumentation (NVA), where agents provide explicit arguments or ju...
In this paper, we describe new results on the security, in the Luby-Rackoff paradigm, of two modified Feistel constructions, namely the L-scheme, a construction used at various l...
Abstract. At the first ICVS, we presented SA-C (“sassy”), a singleassignment variant of the C programming language designed to exploit both coarse-grain and fine-grain parallel...