Businesses deal with huge databases over a geographically distributed supply network. When this is combined with scheduling and planning needs, it becomes too difficult to handle. Recently, Fast Consumer Goods sector tends ...

A method is proposed, called channel polarization, to construct code sequences that achieve the symmetric capacity I(W) of any given binary-input discrete memoryless channel (B-DMC) W. The symmetric capacity I(W) is the ...

This article presents a new form of exemplar-based learning method, based on overlapping feature intervals. In this model, a concept is represented by a collection of overlappling intervals for each feature and class. ...

ID-based cryptography has been a very active area of research in cryptography since bilinear pairings were introduced as a cryptographic tool, and there have been many proposals for ID-based signatures recently. In this ...

A frequently encountered problem in peer review systems is to facilitate pairwise comparisons of a given set of documents by as few experts as possible. In [7], it was shown that, if each expert is assigned to review k ...

We propose novel parallel preconditioning schemes for the iterative solution of integral equation methods. In particular, we try to improve convergence rate of the ill-conditioned linear systems formulated by the electric-field ...

Data management in Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems is a complicated and challenging issue due to the scale of the network and highly transient population of peers. In this paper, we identify important research problems in P2P ...

Threshold Broadcast Encryption (TBE) is a promising extension of threshold cryptography with its advantages over traditional threshold cryptosystems, such as eliminating the need of a trusted party, the ability of setting ...