The paper analyzes auctions which are not completely enforceable. In such auctions, economic agents may fail to carry out their obligations, and parties involved cannot rely on ex...
After the failure of copy prevention methods, watermarking stays the main technical safeguard of electronic copyright. There are many properties that a watermarking scheme should ...
This paper addresses the recovery and the rollback problem in distributed collaborative transactions. We propose a solution to the problem in a generalized ARIES [9] framework. We...
The MILAN project, a joint effort involving Arizona State University and New York University, has produced and validated fundamental techniques for the realization of efficient, r...
This paper presents an extension of Bayesian networks (BN) applied to reliability analysis. We developed a general methodology for modelling reliability of complex systems based o...