— In this paper we present information about our experiment with a social network of students from one school class. Each pupil has characterized his/her relationships to all sch...
Integration is important in politics, business, and technology. In all these fields, the definition of integration is vague. We build a formal measure of integration based on the ...
Intelligent security protocols can verify whether the involved principals have properties that are defined based on certain functional and security policies. The property we focu...
We consider the model of population protocols introduced by Angluin et al. [2], in which anonymous finite-state agents stably compute a predicate of their inputs via twoway inter...
The number of probes needed by the best possible algorithm for locally or globally optimizing a bivariate function varies substantially depending on the assumptions made about the ...