While mobile handheld devices, such as cell phones and PDAs, provide productivity benefits, they also pose new risks. A vital safeguard against unauthorized access to a device’s...
A multi-party contract signing (MPCS) protocol allows a set of parties to exchange messages with each other to arrive in a state in which either each of them has a pre-agreed cont...
Customers are usually passive in an electronic commerce transaction. Based on a new two times concurrent signature, this article presents a fair electronic payment (E-payment) pro...
When a paid price discount activity occurs, the decisionmaker must decide whether or not and when to pay the additional fees for preferential price in an online fashion. This prob...
Abstract— We prove that the number of Pareto-optimal solutions in any multiobjective binary optimization problem with a finite number of linear objective functions is polynomial...