Traditional negotiation, conducted face-to-face and via mail or telephone, is often difficult to manage, prone to misunderstanding, and time consuming. Automated negotiation promis...
We describe a method for computing the likelihood that a completion joining two contour fragments passes through any given position and orientation in the image plane, that is, a m...
Key establishment plays a central role in authentication and encryption in wireless sensor networks, especially when they are mainly deployed in hostile environments. Because of t...
Cooperation among bidders in traditional auctions is generally forbidden because it is harmful to the interests of sellers. However, in a new type of online auction, the group-buy...
Jian Chen, Xilong Chen, Robert J. Kauffman, Xiping...
We introduce a deductive system Bal which models the logic of balance of opposing forces or of balance between conflicting evidence or influences. "Truth values" are int...