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SIGSOFT
2003
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
Refinements and multi-dimensional separation of concerns
1 Step-wise refinement (SWR) asserts that complex programs can be derived from simple programs by progressively adding features. The length of a program specification is the number...
Don S. Batory, Jia Liu, Jacob Neal Sarvela
AC
2003
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
The Importance of Aggregation
Abstract—The dynamics of the survival of recruiting fish are analyzed as evolving random processes of aggregation and mortality. The analyses draw on recent advances in the phys...
Robbert van Renesse
ASIACRYPT
2003
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Almost Uniform Density of Power Residues and the Provable Security of ESIGN
Abstract. ESIGN is an efficient signature scheme that has been proposed in the early nineties (see [14]). Recently, an effort was made to lay ESIGN on firm foundations, using the...
Tatsuaki Okamoto, Jacques Stern
AWIC
2003
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
From Search Engines to Question-Answering Systems - The Need for New Tools
Abstract Search engines, with Google at the top, have many remarkable capabilities. But what is not among them is the deduction capability—the capability to synthesize an answer ...
Lotfi A. Zadeh
CIAC
2003
Springer
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15 years 5 months ago
Improving Customer Proximity to Railway Stations
Abstract. We consider problems of (new) station placement along (existing) railway tracks, so as to increase the number of users. We prove that, in spite of the NP-hardness for the...
Evangelos Kranakis, Paolo Penna, Konrad Schlude, D...