The main goal of the bilingual and monolingual participation of the MIRACLE team at CLEF 2004 was testing the effect of combination approaches to information retrieval. The starti...
We study information elicitation mechanisms in which a principal agent attempts to elicit the private information of other agents using a carefully selected payment scheme based o...
In this paper we propose three smartcard-based variants of anonymous authentication using unique one-time pseudonyms. The first variant can be used to authenticate a user. However,...
Fast is a tool designed for the analysis of counter systems, i.e. automata extended with unbounded integer variables. Despite the reachability set is not recursive in general, Fast...
The application designers can usually define their own "virtual environments" by selecting the appropriate computing resources required, or reuse and compose existing en...