Decentralized control of a cooperative multi-agent system is the problem faced by multiple decision-makers that share a common set of objectives. The decision-makers may be robots...
A most critical and complex issue with regard to constrained devices in the ubiquitous and pervasive computing setting is secure key exchange. The restrictions motivate the invest...
DjVu is a document codec that uses a truncated embedded significance tree to achieve both resolution and image quality scalability. In this paper, the probability model for the t...
Task-specific groups are often formed in an ad-hoc manner within big structures, like companies. Take the following typical scenario: A high rank manager decides that a task force...
Abstract-- This paper is concerned with passwordauthenticated key agreement protocols. Designing such protocols represents an interesting challenge since there is no standard way o...