Abstract. A class of probabilistic-logic models is considered, which increases the expressibility from HMM's and SCFG's regular and contextfree languages to, in principle...
As the IT industry is becoming more and more interested in service oriented business models and upcoming technologies like Web Services or Grid Computing, the need for automated c...
We present a single-database private information retrieval (PIR) scheme with communication complexity O(k+d), where k ≥ log n is a security parameter that depends on the database...
The assignment problem originally arising from parallel and distributed computing has been investigated intensively since the 70’s when Harold Stone proposed a method to solve i...
Planning and scheduling attracts an unceasing attention of computer science community. However, despite of similar character of both tasks, in most current systems planning and sch...