In the last few years there has been much interest in the delivery of software-as-a-service. The concept of the remote delivery of software by Application Service Providers (ASPs)...
Existing task allocation algorithms generally do not consider the effects of task interaction, such as interference, but instead assume that tasks are independent. That assumptio...
Protection of copyrights and revenues of content owners in the digital world has been gaining importance in the recent years. This paper presents a way of fingerprinting text docu...
In PODC 2003, Park, Chong, Siegel and Ray [22] proposed an optimistic protocol for fair exchange, based on RSA signatures. We show that their protocol is totally breakable already...
In many data mining tools that support regression tasks, training data are stored in a single table containing both the target field (dependent variable) and the attributes (indepe...