Matchmaking will be an important component of future agent and agent-like systems, such as the semantic web. Most research on matchmaking has been directed toward sophisticated ma...
A team-based competitive environment is a complex multiagent environment, in which agents are required to coordinate with each other not only to enhance their collective behavior,...
When short queries and short image annotations are used in text-based cross-language image retrieval, small changes in word usage due to translation errors may decrease the retriev...
A t-private private information retrieval (PIR) scheme allows a user to retrieve the ith bit of an n-bit string x replicated among k servers, while any coalition of up to t server...
Forgery and counterfeiting are emerging as serious security risks in low-cost pervasive computing devices. These devices lack the computational, storage, power, and communication r...