—With the abundance of location-aware portable devices such as cellphones and PDAs, a new emerging application is to use this pervasive computing platform to learn about the wher...
We present a cryptographic protocol for conducting efficient, provably correct and secrecy-preserving combinatorial clock-proxy auctions. The “clock phase” functions as a trust...
David C. Parkes, Michael O. Rabin, Christopher Tho...
Web 2.0 Communities allow large amounts of users to interact with each others. In fact, new Web 2.0 technologies allow to share resources and information in an easy and timely mann...
Abstract—The operation of achieving authenticated key agreement between two human-operated mobile devices over a short range wireless communication channel, such as Bluetooth or ...
The existence of on-line social networks that include person specific information creates interesting opportunities for various applications ranging from marketing to community o...
Barbara Carminati, Elena Ferrari, Raymond Heatherl...