Abstract. The practical utility of optimization technologies is often impacted by factors that reflect how these tools are used in practice, including whether various real-world c...
William E. Hart, Jonathan W. Berry, Erik G. Boman,...
The characteristics of mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) determine that the authentication approaches to protect routing and data packet transmission in MANETs should be lightweight...
A fair network payment protocol plays an important role in electronic commerce. The fairness concept in payments can be illustrated as that two parties (e.g. customers and merchant...
The lack of trust amongst consumers and concerns about disclosing personal information are commonly seen as a major impediment to the growth of e-commerce. This is a consequence o...
—In an adversarial environment, various kinds of security attacks become possible if malicious nodes could claim fake locations that are different from where they are physically ...