Thwarting unlawful redistribution of information sold electronically is a major problem of information-based electronic commerce. Anonymous fingerprinting has appeared as a technique for copyright protection which is compatible with buyer anonymity in electronic transactions. However, the complexity of known algorithms for anonymous fingerprinting deters their practical implementation, since th...

Oblivious transfer (OT) is a powerful primitive in modern cryptography, often used in a context of semi-honest adversaries. Committed oblivious transfer (COT) is an enhancement involving the use of commitments, which can be used in many applications of OT covering particular malicious adversarial behavior. For OT, many protocols are known that cover the transfer of bit strings rather than just ...

We consider models of stochastic evolution in two-strategy games in which agents employ imitative decision rules. We introduce committed agents: for each strategy, we suppose that there is at least one agent who plays that strategy without fail. We show that unlike the standard imitative model, the model with committed agents generates unambiguous infinite horizon predictions: the asymptotics o...

Galway, Ireland Combining Electrospinning and Fused Deposition Modelling for the Fabrication of Multilayered Vascular Grafts M. Centola, A. Rainer, C. Spadaccio, S. De Porcellinis, J.A. Genovese and M. Trombetta *Corresponding Author: [email protected] Laboratory of Chemistry & Biomaterials, Area of Cardiovascular Surgery, CIR-Center Integrated of Research, University Campus Bio-Medico o...

In this work, we analyze two important and simple models of short rates, namely Vasicek and CIR models. The models are described and then the sensitivity of the models with respect to changes in the parameters are studied. Finally, we give the results for the estimation of the model parameters by using two different ways.