This paper presents a non-interactive verifiable secret sharing scheme (VSS) tolerating a dishonest majority based on data predistributed by a trusted authority. As an application of this VSS scheme we present very efficient unconditionally secure multiparty protocols based on pre-distributed data which generalize two-party computations based on linear pre-distributed bit commitments. The main ...

− Variable Structure Systems (VSS) Theory, which is particularly well developed for tracking control of uncertain nonlinear systems, has inspired the scientists in developing solutions to ill-posed problems like the design of training criteria under a set of conditions and performance metrics. The underlying idea has been to exploit the invariance properties introduced by the theory together wi...

Verifiable Secret Sharing (VSS) is a fundamental tool of cryptography and distributed computing in Internet Things. Since network bandwidth scarce resource, minimizing the number verification data will improve performance VSS. Existing VSS schemes, however, face limitations meeting energy consumptions for low-end devices, which make their adoption challenging resource-limited IoTs. To address a...

The reality of COVID-19 public health concerns and increasing demand for distance education have forced educators to move online delivery their courses. Particularly in construction education, the majority physical location-based educational activities (e.g., labs, site visits, or field trips) been canceled during pandemic that results reducing students’ engagement, learning motivation, cogniti...

We recently found that direct stimulation of visual cortex using TMS could result in phosphenes that extended outside the visual field (Wu et al, VSS 2006). Brightness was perceived to emanate from positions inside the mouth, beneath the head, or even behind the ear. Though previous studies using retinal stimulation had failed to produce similar results (Hayhoe & Williams 1984, Cavanagh & Barto...

The intracranial venous sinus is an important component of vascular disease. Many diseases involve the venous sinus and are accompanied by venous sinus stenosis (VSS), which leads to increased venous pressure and high intracranial pressure. Recent research has focused on stenting as a treatment for VSS related to these diseases. However, a systematic understanding of venous sinus stenting (VS-S...

Two-dimensional (TD) adaptive filtering is a technique that can be applied to many image, and signal processing applications. This paper extends the one-dimensional adaptive filter algorithms to TD structures and the novel TD adaptive filters are established. Based on this extension, the TD variable step-size normalized least mean squares (TD-VSS-NLMS), the TD-VSS affine projection algorithms (...