xor Goal 1

The identified security areas comprise protecting hosts against malicious agents, protecting the agent’s transmission and protecting agents against malicious hosts. The first two security issues and the protection of the agent’s code state can be solved by applying traditional security techniques. Even though there are some works that manage the privacy of execution, their implementation is alm...

In this document I respond to three sections of Prof. Milgrom and Prof. Ausubel’s analysis in their Comments on the Second Wye River Package Bidding Conference. First I examine the expressivity of the auction #31 bidding language. Second I discuss some computational issues that arise from the choice of bidding language, concentrating on computational benefits of the OR-of-XOR language and on ho...

As EXOR (Exclusive-OR) expansions of binary output functions, the ESOP (EXOR Sum of Products) form and its extension, the ESCT (EXOR Sum of Complex Terms) form, have been studied extensively in the literature. An efficient algorithm for minimizing ESOP forms is known for two-variable multiple-valued input functions. On the other hand, no ESCT minimization algorithm is known for such functions. ...

In this paper, a general concept called n+k/n method is introduced. In n+k/n method, a special mapping function is defined to map an intermediate set with n+k bits into n bits information set. In the embedding process, the intermediate set is embedded into cover image rather than embedding the information set. If the distance between the features of cover image and the bits of intermediate set ...

In this paper, we propose a novel method for increasing the entropy of a sequence of independent, discrete random variables with arbitrary distributions. The method uses an auxiliary table and a novel theorem that concerns the entropy of a sequence in which the elements are a bitwise exclusive-or sum of independent discrete random variables.

The Boolean expression of an analogical proportion, i.e., a statement of the form “a is to b as c is to d”, expresses that “a differs from b as c differs from d, and vice-versa. This is the basis of an analogical inference principle, which is shown to be a particular instance of the analogical “jump”: from P (s), P (t), and Q(s), deduceQ(t). Roughly speaking, an analogical proportion sounds lik...

This paper examines interbrand competition between a domestic and a foreign manufacturer who market their products through intermediaries. The contracts manufacturers o¤er these intermediaries are endogenous. In equilibrium contracts may specify exclusive territories (ET), depending on the degree of substitutability between products and the level and degree of transparency of trade barriers. Tr...