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EUSFLAT
2007
132views Fuzzy Logic» more  EUSFLAT 2007»
13 years 6 months ago
Shortfall-dependant Risk Measures (and Previsions)
Because of their simplicity, risk measures are often employed in financial risk evaluations and related decisions. In fact, the risk measure ρ(X) of a random variable X is a rea...
Pietro Baroni, Renato Pelessoni, Paolo Vicig
JASSS
2002
244views more  JASSS 2002»
13 years 5 months ago
Applications of Simulation to Social Sciences
What is the degree of sophistication that we have to put into the agents in agents based computer simulation models? Should we provide them with a "mind"? The answer ran...
Gérard Ballot, Gérard Weisbuch
SIGECOM
2003
ACM
97views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2003»
13 years 10 months ago
A robust open ascending-price multi-unit auction protocol against false-name bids
This paper presents a new ascending-price multi-unit auction protocol. As far as the authors are aware, this is the first protocol that has an open format, and in which sincere b...
Atsushi Iwasaki, Makoto Yokoo, Kenji Terada
CORR
2008
Springer
174views Education» more  CORR 2008»
13 years 5 months ago
Bounded Budget Connection (BBC) Games or How to make friends and influence people, on a budget
Motivated by applications in social networks, peer-to-peer and overlay networks, we define and study the Bounded Budget Connection (BBC) game - we have a collection of n players o...
Nikolaos Laoutaris, Laura J. Poplawski, Rajmohan R...
POPL
2001
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Mobile values, new names, and secure communication
We study the interaction of the "new" construct with a rich but common form of (first-order) communication. This interaction is crucial in security protocols, which are ...
Cédric Fournet, Martín Abadi