We recall the notions of weak and strong Euler characteristics on a first order structure and make explicit the notion of a Grothendieck ring of a structure. We define partially or...
In this paper, we describe a thread of research which we have followed off and on at Cambridge for about three years. Our topic is the security of electronic documents, in the bro...
In this paper we consider the cocircuit graph GM of an oriented matroid M, the 1-skeleton of the cell complex W formed by the span of the cocircuits of M. In general, W is not dete...
The past few years have witnessed increased interest in the potential use of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) in applications such as disaster management, combat field reconnaissa...
Ant colonies, and more generally social insect societies, are distributed systems that, in spite of the simplicity of their individuals, present a highly structured social organiz...