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MASA
2001
Springer
14 years 28 days ago
2001
Springer
In this paper we present a fairly complex example of how the social model for agent conversations based on social commitments we have developed in the past formally supports the im...
NIPS
2007
13 years 10 months ago
2007
A non–linear dynamic system is called contracting if initial conditions are forgotten exponentially fast, so that all trajectories converge to a single trajectory. We use contra...
ENTCS
2006
13 years 8 months ago
2006
The maintenance of organisation is a prerequisite for all viable systems in dynamic environments. In many living systems this organisation is, in part, achieved through coordinati...
ATAL
2007
Springer
14 years 14 days ago
2007
Springer
In this paper, we present a new protocol to address multilateral multi-issue negotiation in a cooperative context. We consider complex dependencies between multiple issues by mode...
ASIACRYPT
2006
Springer
14 years 6 days ago
2006
Springer
In this paper, we describe generic attacks on unbalanced Feistel schemes with contracting functions. These schemes are used to construct pseudo-random permutations from kn bits to ...