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SIGECOM
2004
ACM
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Self-interested automated mechanism design and implications for optimal combinatorial auctions
Often, an outcome must be chosen on the basis of the preferences reported by a group of agents. The key difficulty is that the agents may report their preferences insincerely to m...
Vincent Conitzer, Tuomas Sandholm
AMAI
2004
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Approximate Probabilistic Constraints and Risk-Sensitive Optimization Criteria in Markov Decision Processes
The majority of the work in the area of Markov decision processes has focused on expected values of rewards in the objective function and expected costs in the constraints. Althou...
Dmitri A. Dolgov, Edmund H. Durfee
CIKM
2004
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Exploiting hierarchical relationships in conceptual search
As the number of available Web pages grows, users experience increasing difficulty finding documents relevant to their interests. One of the underlying reasons for this is that mo...
Devanand Ravindran, Susan Gauch
CRYPTO
2004
Springer
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Feistel Schemes and Bi-linear Cryptanalysis
Abstract. In this paper we introduce the method of bi-linear cryptanalysis (BLC), designed specifically to attack Feistel ciphers. It allows to construct periodic biased character...
Nicolas Courtois
EMSOFT
2004
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
A metrics system for quantifying operational coupling in embedded computer control systems
One central issue in system structuring and quality prediction is the interdependencies of system modules. This paper proposes a novel technique for determining the operational co...
De-Jiu Chen, Martin Törngren