The central mechanism design problem is to develop incentives for agents to truthfully reveal their preferences over different outcomes, so that the system-wide outcome chosen by ...
Mechanism design has found considerable application to the construction of agent-interaction protocols. In the standard setting, the type (e.g., utility function) of an agent is n...
Exception handling mechanisms are intended to help developers build robust systems. Although an exception handling mechanism provides a basis for structuring source code dealing w...
With the recent advances in mobile technologies and infrastructures, citizens start to demand for not just mobile but also ubiquitous access to e-government services. Further with...
Dickson K. W. Chiu, Dan Hong, S. C. Cheung, Eleann...
Several architectures have been recently proposed that store relational data in encrypted form on untrusted relational databases. Such architectures permit the creation of novel I...
Ernesto Damiani, Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati,...