Abstract. In considering a problem in access control for scalable multimedia formats, we have developed new methods for constructing a key assignment scheme. Our first contribution...
Some manipulations with vague quantities consist in an aggregation of vague amounts where the resulting aggregated quantity (in our case a sum of vague summands) is expected to be...
A fundamental difficulty faced by groups of agents that work together is how to efficiently coordinate their efforts. This paper presents techniques that allow heterogeneous agent...
This contribution presents a new class of MRF, that is inspired by methods of statistical physics. The new energy function assumes full-connectivity in the neighborhood system and...
We consider the challenge of preference elicitation in systems that help users discover the most desirable item(s) within a given database. Past work on preference elicitation foc...