Thanks to their high performance and programmability, the latest graphics cards can now be used for scientific purpose. They are indeed very efficient parallel Single Instruction ...
Elliptic curve cryptosystems are usually implemented over fields of characteristic two or over (large) prime fields. For large prime fields, projective coordinates are more suitabl...
We resolve two long-standing open problems in distributed computation by describing polylogarithmic protocols for Byzantine agreement and leader election in the asynchronous full ...
Bruce M. Kapron, David Kempe, Valerie King, Jared ...
Computer worms -- malicious, self-propagating programs -- represent a significant threat to large networks. One possible defense, containment, seeks to limit a worm's spread ...
Background: Protein structure comparison is a key problem in bioinformatics. There exist several methods for doing protein comparison, being the solution of the Maximum Contact Ma...