A problem of arranging n points as uniformly as possible, which is equivalent to that of packing n equal and non-overlapping circles in a unit square, is frequently asked. In this ...
Abstract Privacy has become a factor of increasing importance in auction design. We propose general techniques for cryptographic first-price and (M + 1)st-price auction protocols t...
A conjecture by D. Seese states that if a set of graphs has a decidable monadic second-order theory, then it is the image of a set of trees under a transformation defined by monad...
7 We prove for a large class of parameters t and r that a multiset of at most t d−k + r d−k−2 points in PG(d, q) that blocks every k-dimensional subspace at least t times mu...
Instead of selling advertisement spots one by one, some French satellite channels decided in 2002 to modify their commercial offer in order to sell packages of spots. These new g...