Genetic Algorithms have worked fairly well for the VLSI cell placement problem, albeit with significant run times. Two parallel models for GA are presented for VLSI cell placemen...
Sadiq M. Sait, Mohammed Faheemuddin, Mahmood R. Mi...
It has recently been shown that fair exchange, a security problem in distributed systems, can be reduced to a fault tolerance problem, namely a special form of distributed consensu...
Carole Delporte-Gallet, Hugues Fauconnier, Felix C...
We introduce the concept of concurrent signatures. These allow two entities to produce two signatures in such a way that, from the point of view of any third party, both signatures...
Abstract. A contract signing protocol lets two parties exchange digital signatures on a pre-agreed text. Optimistic contract signing protocols enable the signers to do so without i...
Rohit Chadha, John C. Mitchell, Andre Scedrov, Vit...
Efficient discovery and resource allocation is one of the challenges of current Peer-to-Peer systems. In centralized approaches, the user requests can be matched to the fastest, ch...
Oscar Ardaiz, Pau Artigas, Torsten Eymann, Felix F...