We introduce a new cryptographic primitive called the blind coupon mechanism (BCM). In effect, the BCM is an authenticated bit commitment scheme, which is AND-homomorphic. It has n...
Concast is a customizable many-to-one network-layer communication service. Although programmable services like concast can improve the efficiency of group applications, accompanyi...
Kenneth L. Calvert, Jim Griffioen, Billy Mullins, ...
An increasing number of Web-based systems, including brainstorming, decision-making, and negotiation support systems, are being developed to aid users in solving particular types ...
Margaret J. Kersten, Marlene Haley, Gregory E. Ker...
Peer-to-peer systems enable efficient resource aggregation and are inherently scalable since they do not depend on any centralized authority. However, lack of a centralized autho...
Customers of public computing sites and faculty who use the public computer classrooms to teach want diversity in computing. Inevitably, there’s a group that does not want to te...