A Private Information Retrieval (PIR) protocol allows a user to retrieve a data item of its choice from a database, such that the servers storing the database do not gain informat...
In wireless ad hoc networks, autonomous nodes are reluctant to forward others' packets because of the nodes' limited energy. However, such selfishness and noncooperation ...
Social insect societies and more specifically ant colonies, are distributed systems that, in spite of the simplicity of their individuals, present a highly structured social organi...
Abstract. Given a partially ordered set P = (X; P ), a function F which assigns to each x 2 X a set F (x) so that x y in P if and only if F (x) F (y) is called an inclusion represe...
Stefan Felsner, Peter C. Fishburn, William T. Trot...
This paper examines the relationship between wavelet-based image processing algorithms and variational problems. Algorithms are derived as exact or approximate minimizers of varia...
Antonin Chambolle, Ronald A. DeVore, Nam-Yong Lee,...