We introduce a new cryptographic primitive called the blind coupon mechanism (BCM). In effect, the BCM is an authenticated bit commitment scheme, which is AND-homomorphic. It has n...
Provision of services within a virtual framework for resource sharing across institutional boundaries has become an active research area. Many such services encode access to compu...
General trust management model that we present is adapted for ad-hoc coalition environment, rather than for classic client-supplier relationship. The trust representation used in ...
In the past emotions have been dismissed as a distraction to the logical, scientific thought process. More recently however, the importance of emotion in human-like intelligence a...
Abstract. Clustering has become an increasingly important task in modern application domains. In many areas, e.g. when clustering complex objects, in distributed clustering, or whe...