Randomness extractors are important tools in cryptography. Their goal is to compress a high-entropy source into a more uniform output. Beyond their theoretical interest, they have ...
Micro-incentives represent a new but little-studied trend in participant compensation for user studies. In this paper, we use a combination of statistical analysis and models from...
Mohamed Musthag, Andrew Raij, Deepak Ganesan, Sant...
We put forward a framework for the modular design and analysis of multi-party protocols. Our framework is called “GNUC” (with the recursive meaning “GNUC’s Not UC”), alr...
—Code dissemination in wireless sensor networks refers to the process of disseminating a new code image via wireless links to all sensor nodes after they are deployed. It is desi...
—Outlier mining is a major task in data analysis. Outliers are objects that highly deviate from regular objects in their local neighborhood. Density-based outlier ranking methods...