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EUROPKI
2004
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
On the Use of Weber Polynomials in Elliptic Curve Cryptography
Abstract. In many cryptographic applications it is necessary to generate elliptic curves (ECs) with certain security properties. These curves are commonly constructed using the Com...
Elisavet Konstantinou, Yannis C. Stamatiou, Christ...
DAGSTUHL
2007
15 years 7 months ago
A Deeper Investigation of PageRank as a Function of the Damping Factor
PageRank is defined as the stationary state of a Markov chain. The chain is obtained by perturbing the transition matrix induced by a web graph with a damping factor α that spre...
Paolo Boldi, Massimo Santini, Sebastiano Vigna
IJCAI
2001
15 years 7 months ago
Exploiting Multiple Secondary Reinforcers in Policy Gradient Reinforcement Learning
Most formulations of Reinforcement Learning depend on a single reinforcement reward value to guide the search for the optimal policy solution. If observation of this reward is rar...
Gregory Z. Grudic, Lyle H. Ungar
EMMCVPR
2011
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
The Complex Wave Representation of Distance Transforms
The complex wave representation (CWR) converts unsigned 2D distance transforms into their corresponding wave functions. The underlying motivation for performing this maneuver is as...
Karthik S. Gurumoorthy, Anand Rangarajan, Arunava ...
POPL
2010
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
Contracts Made Manifest
Since Findler and Felleisen [2002] introduced higher-order contracts, many variants have been proposed. Broadly, these fall into two groups: some follow Findler and Felleisen in u...
Benjamin C. Pierce, Michael Greenberg, Stephanie W...