A reason to distribute constraint satisfaction is privacy: agents may not want to share their values, and they may wish to keep constraints as private as possible. In this paper, w...
Abstract. This paper studies algorithms for the Disjunctive Temporal Problem (DTP) a quite general temporal reasoning problem introduced in [12]. This problem involves the satisfac...
In many applications, such as decision support, negotiation, planning, scheduling, etc., one needs to express requirements that can only be partially satisfied. In order to expres...
A group signature scheme allows a group member of a given group to sign messages on behalf of the group in an anonymous and unlinkable way. In case of a dispute, however, a design...
This paper aims to categorize some of the fundamental information systems (IS) challenges with the development of consumer-oriented electronic commerce or online retailing. With th...