The Secure Multi-Party Computation (SMC) model provides means for balancing the use and confidentiality of distributed data. This is especially important in the field of privacy-preserving data analysis (PPDA). Increasing security concerns have led to a surge in work on practical secure...

A new approach to passive detection and avoidance of collision and near-collision with moving obstacles by Uninhabited Aerial Systems (UAS) is proposed in this paper. It takes as inputs the bearings between the ownship and the moving obstacles (intruders) only. Bearings can be measured by...

The reality of pervasive computing has nearly been realized, if it has not already. Pervasive computing environments promise ubiquitous connectivity, a plethora of information, and seamless computing support. Despite the advances in infrastructure to deliver on Weiser's original vision for...

We study variants of the classical stable marriage problem in which the preferences of the men or the women, or both, are derived from a master preference list. This models real-world matching problems in which participants are ranked according to some objective criteria. The master list(s) may...

Since the much-hyped dot.com crash, treading the e-business path can be daunting. In these increasingly uncertain and cynical times, this useful text unpicks the challenges of e-Marketing for many types of business. It uses topical case studies and accompanying web material to provide an...

This research focuses on the design and verification of inter-organizational controls. Instead of looking at a documentary procedure, which is the flow of documents and data among the parties, the research examines the underlying deontic purpose of the procedure, the so-called deontic process,...

Many applications require predicting not a just a single variable, but multiple variables that depend on each other. Recent attention has therefore focused on structured prediction methods, which combine the modeling flexibility of graphical models with the ability to employ complex, dependent...