Group key agreement (GKA) allows a set of players to establish a shared secret and thus bootstrap secure group communication. GKA is very useful in many types of peer group scenar...
We study the access control integration problem for web services. Organizations frequently use many services, each with its own access control policies, that must interoperate whi...
Data models and encoding formats for syntactically annotated text corpora need to deal with syntactic ambiguity; underspecified representations are particularly well suited for th...
We consider how to combine the preferences of multiple agents despite the presence of incompleteness and incomparability in their preference orderings. An agent’s preference orde...
Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, Kristen Brent ...
Abstract. We consider the single machine scheduling problem to minimize the average weighted completion time under precedence constrains. Improving on the various 2-approximation a...