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ICICS
2010
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
Unconditionally Secure First-Price Auction Protocols Using a Multicomponent Commitment Scheme
Due to the rapid growth of e-commerce technology, secure auction protocols have attracted much attention among researchers. The main reason for constructing sealed-bid auction prot...
Mehrdad Nojoumian, Douglas R. Stinson
ATAL
2003
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Self-Organisation: Paradigms and Applications
Abstract. A self-organising system functions without central control, and through contextual local interactions. Components achieve a simple task individually, but a complex collec...
Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, Noria Foukia, Salima ...
GECCO
2008
Springer
160views Optimization» more  GECCO 2008»
14 years 10 months ago
Self-managing agents for dynamic scheduling in manufacturing
The main purpose of this paper is to propose a Multi-Agent Autonomic and Bio-Inspired based framework with selfmanaging capabilities to solve complex scheduling problems using coo...
Ana Madureira, Filipe Santos, Ivo Pereira
ICIP
2000
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Fast Code Enhancement with Local Search for Fractal Image Compression
Optimal fractal coding consists of finding in a finite set of contractive affine mappings one whose unique fixed point is closest to the original image. Optimal fractal coding is ...
Raouf Hamzaoui, Dietmar Saupe, Michael Hiller
ICCAD
2001
IEEE
101views Hardware» more  ICCAD 2001»
15 years 6 months ago
Instruction Generation for Hybrid Reconfigurable Systems
In this work, we present an algorithm for simultaneous template generation and matching. The algorithm profiles the graph and iteratively contracts edges to create the templates. ...
Ryan Kastner, Seda Ogrenci Memik, Elaheh Bozorgzad...