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PODC
2004
ACM
14 years 25 days ago
Group membership: a novel approach and the first single-round algorithm
We establish a new worst-case upper bound on the Membership problem: We present a simple algorithm that is able to always achieve Agreement on Views within a single message latenc...
Roger I. Khazan
SAC
2004
ACM
14 years 25 days ago
Towards a flexible, process-oriented IT architecture for an integrated healthcare network
Healthcare information systems play an important role in improving healthcare quality. As providing healthcare increasingly changes from isolated treatment episodes towards a cont...
Mario Beyer, Klaus Kuhn, Christian Meiler, Stefan ...
SAC
2004
ACM
14 years 25 days ago
Web Services for E-commerce: guaranteeing security access and quality of service
Being E-commerce one of the most critical Internet application, it is fundamental to employ technologies which guarantee not only secure transactions but also an adequate quality ...
Mario Bravetti, Roberto Lucchi, Gianluigi Zavattar...
SPAA
2004
ACM
14 years 25 days ago
Lower bounds for graph embeddings and combinatorial preconditioners
Given a general graph G, a fundamental problem is to find a spanning tree H that best approximates G by some measure. Often this measure is some combination of the congestion and...
Gary L. Miller, Peter C. Richter
DRM
2004
Springer
14 years 24 days ago
Analysis of an incentives-based secrets protection system
Once electronic content has been released it is very difficult to prevent copies of the content from being widely distributed. Such distribution can cause economic harm to the con...
N. Boris Margolin, Matthew Wright, Brian Neil Levi...