: Design of secure systems can often be expressed as ensuring that some property is maintained at every step of a distributed computation among mutually-untrusting parties. Special...
Information retrieval systems have to deal with uncertain knowledge and query results should reflect this uncertainty in some manner. However, Semantic Web ontologies are based on...
One of the main reasons of the recent success of peer to peer (P2P) file sharing systems such as BitTorrent is its built-in tit-for-tat mechanism. In this paper, we model the band...
Diffusion-type algorithms have been integrated in recent years successfully into the toolbox of image processing. We introduce a new more flexible and powerful family of parabolic...
Abstract— We develop an economic model for networks offering tiered services and we formulate the problem of selecting the service tiers from three perspectives: one that conside...