The general problem of robust optimization is this: one of several possible scenarios will appear tomorrow, but things are more expensive tomorrow than they are today. What should...
Fair exchange is one of the most fundamental problems in secure distributed computation. Alice has something that Bob wants, and Bob has something that Alice wants. A fair exchang...
Abstract--In business analysis, models are sometimes oversimplified. We pragmatically approach many problems with a single financial objective and include monetary values for non-m...
Charlotte J. C. Rietveld, Gijs P. Hendrix, Frank T...
In commerce search, the set of products returned by a search engine often forms the basis for all user interactions leading up to a potential transaction on the web. Such a set of...
Program Obfuscation is the problem of transforming a program into one which is functionally equivalent, yet whose inner workings are completely unintelligible to an adversary. Des...