Graph theory provides a powerful set of metrics and conceptual ideas to model and investigate the behavior of communication networks. Most graph-theoretical frameworks in the netw...
We present a novel problem of searching for `familiar strangers' in a social network. Familiar strangers are individuals who are not directly connected but exhibit some simil...
Abstract. We present a public-key encryption scheme with the following properties. Given a branching program P and an encryption c of an input x, it is possible to efficiently com...
This article describes a finite-state cascade for the extraction of person names in texts in French. We extract these proper names in order to categorize and to cluster texts with...
Some systems interact with their environment at physically distributed interfaces, called ports, and in testing such a system it is normal to place a tester at each port. Each test...