Basic science (April 2006)

Cover Vol.3, No.1, April 2006

Magdeburg , April - July 2006

Introduction In the end of the fifties as N. Chomsky has introduced the well-known classes of regular , context-free and context-sensitive languages. The aim was to model the syntax of natural languages. Based on the Backus-Naur form for the description of the syntax of programming languages, in the beginning of the sixties S. Ginsburg and H.G. Rice noticed that the grammars introduced by Choms...

Françoise Forges † April 2006

A mistake in ”Five legitimate definitions of correlated equilibrium in games with incomplete information” motivates a re-examination of some extensions of the solution concept that Aumann introduced.

PASPCR Commentary, April 2006

How did you begin working in this area? I got my first permanent job, following my post doc, as a bench scientist with the skin biology group of the Pharmaceutical Research Institute of Johnson & Johnson. I was involved in basic research of hair growth and epidermal differentiation. We found that a delicate balance of endogenous serine proteases and their inhibitors is essential for skin homeos...

PEP 2006 Montréal , Quebec 22 April 2006

Privacy is an important challenge facing the growth of the Web and the propagation of various transaction models supported by it. Decentralized distributed models of computing are used to mitigate privacy breaches by eliminating a single point of failure. However, end-users can still be attacked in order to discover their private information. This work proposes using distributed hierarchical ne...