Paxos is a well known algorithm for achieving consensus in distributed environments with uncertain processing and communication timing. Implementations of its variants have been s...
Chryssis Georgiou, Procopis Hadjiprocopiou, Peter ...
Automatic generation of taxonomies can be useful for a wide area of applications. In our application scenario a topical hierarchy should be constructed reasonably fast from a large...
An identity-based encryption (IBE) scheme can greatly reduce the complexity of sending encrypted messages. However, an IBE scheme necessarily requires a private-key generator (PKG)...
Copulas are used in finance and insurance for modeling stochastic dependency. They comprehend the entire dependence structure, not only the correlations. Here they are estimated ...
Forming effective coalitions is a major research challenge in AI and multi-agent systems (MAS). Coalition Structure Generation (CSG) involves partitioning a set of agents into coa...