Before embarking upon a large web site project, whether creating a new site or just redesigning one, it is generally accepted practice not to begin work until all the problem spec...
The prediction of collisions amongst N rigid objects may be reduced to a series of computations of the time to first contact for all pairs of objects. Simple enclosing bounds and...
We give an efficient protocol for sequence comparisons of the edit-distance kind, such that neither party reveals anything about their private sequence to the other party (other t...
Mikhail J. Atallah, Florian Kerschbaum, Wenliang D...
Abstract. We study two closely related primitives: Broadcast Encryption and Key Predistribution Schemes (KPS). Broadcast Encryption allows a broadcaster to broadcast an encrypted m...
Auctions are an important means for purchasing material in the era of e-commerce. Research on auctions often studies them in isolation. In practice, however, auction agents are pa...