This paper describes the presumed-either two-phase commit protocol. Presumed-either exploits log piggybacking to reduce the cost of committing transactions. If timely piggybacking ...
One approach to supply chain coordination is early order commitment, whereby a retailer commits to purchase a fixedorder quantity at a fixed delivery time before demand uncertai...
Unit commitment is a complex decision-making process because of multiple constraints which must not be violated while nding the optimal or a near-optimal commitment schedule. This...
Introduced by Micali, Rabin and Kilian (MRK), the basic primitive of zero-knowledge sets (ZKS) allows a prover to commit to a secret set S so as to be able to prove statements such...
Joint action by a team does not consist merely of simultaneous and coordinated individual actions; to act together, a team must be aware of and care about the status of the group ...