Due to the growing popularity of XML as a data exchange and storage format, the need to develop efficient techniques for storing and querying XML documents has emerged. A common ap...
Let X be a compact metric space. A closed set K X is located if the distance function d(x, K) exists as a continuous realvalued function on X; weakly located if the predicate d(x,...
Coalition formation is an important capability of automated negotiation among self-interested agents. In order for coalitions to be stable, a key question that must be answered is...
Abstract. Many relevant Web mining tasks translate into classical algorithms on the Web graph. Compact Web graph representations allow running these tasks on larger graphs within m...
Abstract. Known compact e-cash schemes are constructed from signature schemes with efficient protocols and verifiable random functions. In this paper, we introduce a different ap...