Abstract. This paper describes how high level implementations of (needed) narrowing into Prolog can be improved by analysing definitional trees. First, we introduce a refined repre...
A fair network payment protocol plays an important role in electronic commerce. The fairness concept in payments can be illustrated as that two parties (e.g. customers and merchant...
This material was presented in a series of lectures at fosad, a summer school on Foundations of Security Analysis and Design, at the University of Bologna Center at Bertinoro in Se...
Abstract. Efficient secure time-stamping schemes employ a 2-level approach in which the time-stamping service operates in rounds. We say that a time-stamping service is accountable...
The present paper deals with the learnability of indexed families of uniformly recursive languages from positive data as well as from both, positive and negative data. We consider...