Abstract. In many settings, bidding agents for auctions do not know their preferences a priori. Instead, they must actively determine them through deliberation (e.g., information p...
Secret handshakes were recently introduced [BDS+ 03] to allow members of the same group to authenticate each other secretly, in the sense that someone who is not a group member ca...
Claude Castelluccia, Stanislaw Jarecki, Gene Tsudi...
Cyber security is a serious global concern. The potential of cyber terrorism has posed a threat to national security; meanwhile the increasing prevalence of malware and incidents o...
Abstract. Positioned at the confluence between human/machine and hardware/software integration and backed by a solid proof of concept realized through several scenarios encompassin...
Abstract. A long-running transaction is an interactive component of a distributed system which must be executed as if it were a single atomic action. In principle, it should not be...