Abstract— We relax the monotonicity requirement of Lyapunov’s theorem to enlarge the class of functions that can provide certificates of stability. To this end, we propose two...
Bids during an online auction arrive at unequally-spaced discrete time points. Our goal is to capture the entire continuous price-evolution function by representing it as a functi...
Abstract. The open and dynamic nature of modern distributed systems and pervasive environments presents significant challenges to security management. One solution may be trust ma...
Future information, knowledge and content infrastructures which provide highly automated support in fulfilling users goals will most likely rely on some form of GRID computing. In ...
Abstract. Generally, there are two main streams of theories for studying uncertainties. One is probability theory and the other is fuzzy set theory. One of the basic ideas of fuzzy...