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PUK
2001
15 years 2 months ago
Web-based Commerce of Complex Products and Services with Multiple Suppliers
The sales of customisable products and services over the internet is a challenging task within the area of electronic commerce. In this chapter we will present a case study which s...
Liliana Ardissono, Alexander Felfernig, Gerhard Fr...
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FSTTCS
2009
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Non-Local Box Complexity and Secure Function Evaluation
ABSTRACT. A non-local box is an abstract device into which Alice and Bob input bits x and y respectively and receive outputs a and b respectively, where a, b are uniformly distribu...
Marc Kaplan, Iordanis Kerenidis, Sophie Laplante, ...
CORR
2011
Springer
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14 years 7 months ago
Possibilities and impossibilities in Kolmogorov complexity extraction
Randomness extraction is the process of constructing a source of randomness of high quality from one or several sources of randomness of lower quality. The problem can be modeled ...
Marius Zimand
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DLT
2008
15 years 2 months ago
The Average State Complexity of the Star of a Finite Set of Words Is Linear
We prove that, for the uniform distribution over all sets X of m (that is a fixed integer) non-empty words whose sum of lengths is n, DX , one of the usual deterministic automata r...
Frédérique Bassino, Laura Giambruno,...
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IAT
2006
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
A Multi-stage Graph Decomposition Algorithm for Distributed Constraint Optimisation
In this paper, we propose a novel approach to solving the distributed constraint optimisation problem (DCOP) that guarantees completeness, while having linear communication comple...
Terence H.-W. Law, Adrian R. Pearce