In this paper, we develop a new language construct to address one of the pitfalls of parallel programming: precise handling of events across parallel components. The construct, te...
William Thies, Michal Karczmarek, Janis Sermulins,...
In this paper we consider a common form of the English auction that is widely used in online Internet auctions. This discrete bid auction requires that the bidders may only submit...
Esther David, Alex Rogers, Jeremy Schiff, Sarit Kr...
A large class of stochastic optimization problems can be modeled as minimizing an objective function f that depends on a choice of a vector x ∈ X, as well as on a random external...
Abstract. We introduce a new cryptographic problem called time capsule signature. Time capsule signature is a ‘future signature’ that becomes valid from a specific future time...
There is growing public concern about personal data collected by both private and public sectors. People have very little control over what kinds of data are stored and how such da...