Distributed Real-Time Embedded systems (DRE) increasingly rely on COTS middleware to meet their distribution needs. Yet, there is a technology gap between the design of COTS middl...
Much of hypertext narrative relies on links to shape a reader’s interaction with the text. But links may be too limited to express ambiguity, imprecision, and entropy, or to adm...
Abstract. At FC'05, Chen et al. introduced an elegant privacy protecting coupon (PPC) system, CESSS05 [13], in which users can purchase multi-coupons and redeem them unlinkabl...
The Ideal-Cipher Model of a blockcipher is a well-known and widely-used model dating back to Shannon [24] and has seen frequent use in proving the security of various cryptographi...
A large class of q-distributions is defined on the stochastic model of Bernoulli trials in which the probability of success (=advancing to the next level) depends geometrically on...