Time, events, changes, and processes play a major role in medical conceptual modeling. Representation of time-structures and reasoning about time-oriented medical data are importan...
We introduce a new cryptographic primitive called the blind coupon mechanism (BCM). In effect, the BCM is an authenticated bit commitment scheme, which is AND-homomorphic. It has n...
Multi-agent systems are now being considered a promising architectural approach for building Internet-based applications. One of the most critical and important aspects of softwar...
Abstract: An effective processing and analysis of data streams is of utmost importance for a plethora of emerging applications like network monitoring, traffic management, and fi...
In vague queries, a user enters a value that represents some real world object and expects as the result the set of database values that represent this real world object even with ...
Raquel Kolitski Stasiu, Carlos A. Heuser, Roberto ...