XML-relational systems with well defined XML and relational schemas are widely used in industry. In the presence of rapidly changing requirements both schemas of such a model need...
We present a new two-party identity-based key agreement that is more efficient than previously proposed schemes. It is inspired on a new identity-based key pair derivation algorith...
For many problems there is only suf£cient prior information for a Bayesian decision maker to identify a class of possible prior distributions. In such cases it is of interest to ...
Predicate detection is an important problem in distributed systems. Based on the temporal interactions of intervals, there exists a rich class of modalities under which global pred...
We study vindictive bidding, a strategic bidding behavior in keyword auctions where a bidder forces his competitor to pay more without affecting his own payment. We show that most...