The tension between privacy and awareness has been a persistent difficulty in distributed environments that support opportunistic and informal interaction. For example, many aware...
Moving object databases (MOD) have gained much interest in recent years due to the advances in mobile communications and positioning technologies. Study of MOD can reveal useful i...
Roman Yarovoy, Francesco Bonchi, Laks V. S. Lakshm...
Inspired by the drawings of "impossible" objects by artists such as M.C. Escher, we describe a mathematical theory which captures some of the underlying principles of th...
We pose a fundamental question in understanding how to identify and design successful communities: What factors predict whether a community will grow and survive in the long term?...
We develop an abstract framework that encompasses the key properties of bilinear groups of composite order that are required to construct secure pairing-based cryptosystems, and we...