The securities market is the fundamental theoretical framework in economics and finance for resource allocation under uncertainty. Securities serve both to reallocate risk and to ...
A contract is a non-repudiable agreement on a given contract text, i.e., a contract can be used to prove agreement between its signatories to any verifier. A contract signing sche...
Birgit Pfitzmann, Matthias Schunter, Michael Waidn...
Abstract--With General Purpose programmable GPUs becoming more and more popular, automated tools are needed to bridge the gap between achievable performance from highly parallel ar...
Several peer-to-peer systems for live streaming have been recently deployed (e.g. CoolStreaming, PPLive, SopCast). These all rely on distributed, epidemic-style dissemination mech...
In this paper, we present the index-permutation (IP) graph model, and apply it to the systematic development of efficient hierarchical networks. We derive several classes of inter...