The key limiting factor in graphical model inference and learning is the complexity of the partition function. We thus ask the question: what are the most general conditions under...
The authors have some experience in building virtual worlds for education purposes, in archaeology and for language learning. However, many mainstream world-building applications ...
A source model for secret key generation between terminals is considered. Two users, namely users 1 and 2, at one side communicate with another user, namely user 3, at the other si...
Somayeh Salimi, Mahmoud Salmasizadeh, Mohammad Rez...
Different types of data skewness can result in load imbalance in the context of parallel joins under the shared nothing architecture. We study one important type of skewness, join ...
Foto N. Afrati, Victor Kyritsis, Paraskevas V. Lek...
Differential Power Analysis (DPA) presents a major challenge to mathematically-secure cryptographic protocols. Attackers can break the encryption by measuring the energy consumed i...