Identifying the patterns of large data sets is a key requirement in data mining. A powerful technique for this purpose is the principal component analysis (PCA). PCA-based clusteri...
We introduce a new cryptographic primitive called the blind coupon mechanism (BCM). In effect, the BCM is an authenticated bit commitment scheme, which is AND-homomorphic. It has n...
One of the difficulties to adapt MDPs for the control of cooperative multi-agent systems, is the complexity issued from Decentralized MDPs. Moreover, existing approaches can not ...
Abstract. This paper presents a middleware platform we designed in order to allow the deployment of component-based software applications on mobile devices (such as laptops or pers...
We define and instantiate a cryptographic scheme called “private counters”, which can be used in applications such as preferential voting to express and update preferences (or...