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IAT
2009
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Offline Planning for Communication by Exploiting Structured Interactions in Decentralized MDPs
Variants of the decentralized MDP model focus on problems exhibiting some special structure that makes them easier to solve in practice. Our work is concerned with two main issues...
Hala Mostafa, Victor R. Lesser
CSFW
2004
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Modelling Downgrading in Information Flow Security
Information flow security properties such as noninterference ensure the protection of confidential data by strongly limiting the flow of sensitive information. However, to deal wi...
Annalisa Bossi, Carla Piazza, Sabina Rossi
ER
2004
Springer
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14 years 1 months ago
From Ontology to Relational Databases
The semantic web envisions a World Wide Web in which data is described with rich semantics and applications can pose complex queries. Ontologies, a cornerstone of the semantic web,...
Anuradha Gali, Cindy X. Chen, Kajal T. Claypool, R...
CONCUR
2006
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Event Structure Semantics for Nominal Calculi
Event structures have been used for giving true concurrent semantics to languages and models of concurrency such as CCS, Petri nets and graph grammars. Although certain nominal cal...
Roberto Bruni, Hernán C. Melgratti, Ugo Mon...
FOCS
2004
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Hardness of Approximating the Shortest Vector Problem in Lattices
Let p > 1 be any fixed real. We show that assuming NP RP, there is no polynomial time algorithm that approximates the Shortest Vector Problem (SVP) in p norm within a constant ...
Subhash Khot