Our research is motivated by a strong conviction that business processes in electronic enterprises can be designed to deliver high levels of performance through the use of mathemat...
With inherent problem complexity, ever increasing instance size and ever decreasing layout area, there is need in physical design for improved heuristics and algorithms. In this in...
A well-known result due to Vickery gives a mechanism for selling a number of goods to interested buyers in a way that achieves the maximum social welfare. In practice, a problem wi...
Regular cash systems provide both the anonymity of users and the transferability of coins. In this paper, we study the anonymity properties of transferable e-cash. We define two n...
— A rateless code—i.e., a rate-compatible family of codes—has the property that codewords of the higher rate codes are prefixes of those of the lower rate ones. A perfect fa...