SOFSEM
2012
Springer
12 years 1 days ago
2012
Springer
The classical group testing problem asks to determine at most d defective elements in a set of n elements, by queries to subsets that return Yes if the subset contains some defecti...
CRYPTO
2011
Springer
12 years 4 months ago
2011
Springer
Abstract. A time-lock puzzle is a mechanism for sending messages “to the future”. The sender publishes a puzzle whose solution is the message to be sent, thus hiding it until e...
COCO
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2001
Springer
This paper explores the difference between parallel and serial queries to an NP-complete oracle, SAT, from the perspective of functions with a limited number of output bits. For ...
SIGMOD
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2010
ACM
Time-oriented progress estimation for parallel queries is a challenging problem that has received only limited attention. In this paper, we present ParaTimer, a new type of timere...