We carry forward the work described in our previous papers [3, 14, 12] on the application of data independence to the model checking of cryptographic protocols using CSP [13] and ...
In most electronic auctions conducted over the Internet today price is still the only decision criteria for the best bid. This is true for all sorts of auctions in the electronic ...
Birgit Burmeister, Tobias Ihde, Thomas Kittsteiner...
We present the first constant-factor approximation algorithm for network design with multiple commodities and economies of scale. We consider the rent-or-buy problem, a type of m...
We propose a web-based computer-assisted tool for diagnosing progress in international negotiation. The system is based on a general linear model. Innovative features of the progr...
It is apparent that perturbations of the North American electric power grid follow the patterns and characteristics of Self Organized Critical (SOC) systems. Published studies sho...