We propose a general cryptographic primitive called lossy trapdoor functions (lossy TDFs), and use it to develop new approaches for constructing several important cryptographic to...
Cubegrades are generalization of association rules which represent how a set of measures (aggregates) is affected by modifying a cube through specialization (rolldown), generaliza...
Tomasz Imielinski, Leonid Khachiyan, Amin Abdulgha...
—In open multiagent systems, agents need to model their environments in order to identify trustworthy agents. Models of the environment should be accurate so that decisions about...
The Grid and agent communities both develop concepts and mechanisms for open distributed systems, albeit from different perspectives. The Grid community has historically focused o...
Ian T. Foster, Nicholas R. Jennings, Carl Kesselma...
As a consequence of the current trend towards consolidating computing, storage and networking infrastructures into large centralized data centers, applications compete for shared ...
Sandeep Uttamchandani, Guillermo A. Alvarez, Gul A...