—A major challenge faced by today’s information systems is that of evolution as data usage evolves or new data resources become available. Modern organizations sometimes exchan...
We regularly operate under the notion that one agent assists another when the first does something for the second. However, the story behind this is much more complicated. In thi...
Fair exchange is one of the most fundamental problems in secure distributed computation. Alice has something that Bob wants, and Bob has something that Alice wants. A fair exchang...
Sensor networks have attracted intensive interests due to its extendable capability. In this paper, we attempt to answer a fundamental but practical question:” how should we dep...
If Kolmogorov complexity [25] measures information in one object and Information Distance [4, 23, 24, 42] measures information shared by two objects, how do we measure information...