This paper initiates research on the foundations of ranking systems, a fundamental ingredient of basic e-commerce and Internet Technologies. In order to understand the essence and...
In this paper we formulate the fixed budget resource allocation game to understand the performance of a distributed marketbased resource allocation system. Multiple users decide ...
Recent work on key establishment for sensor networks has shown that it is feasible to employ limited Elliptic Curve Cryptography in sensor networks through hybrid protocols. In th...
Amongst provably secure signature schemes, two distinct classes are of particular interest: the ones with tight reduction (e.g., RSA-PSS), and those which support the use of coupon...
In the design of resource bounded agents, high-level cognitive activities, such as reasoning, raise important problems related both to the adaptive ability and to the computationa...