—In this paper, we propose P3 -coupon, a Prompt and Privacy-preserving electronic coupon distribution system based on a Probabilistic one-ownership forwarding algorithm. In this ...
Boying Zhang, Jin Teng, Xiaole Bai, Zhimin Yang, D...
Trust negotiation is an approach to establishing trust between strangers through the bilateral, iterative disclosure of digital credentials. Under automated trust negotiation, acc...
Social insect societies and more specifically ant colonies, are distributed systems that, in spite of the simplicity of their individuals, present a highly structured social organi...
Thin plate splines are a well known entity of geometric design. They are defined as the minimizer of a variational problem whose differential operators approximate a simple notio...
In the usual models of cooperative game theory, the outcome of a coalition formation process is either the grand coalition or a coalition structure that consists of disjoint coali...