In their paper, “Rational Secure Computation and Ideal Mechanism Design,” Izmalkov, Lepinski and Micali show that any one-shot mediated game can be simulated by the players themselves, without the help of a trusted mediator, using physical envelopes and a ballot-box. We show that communication between the players is not essential to the ILM protocol. That is, we provide a protocol for rational ...

We present a solution for identification and reduction of malicious conduct by Trusted Third parties (TTPs) in Secure Multiparty Computing Protocol. This paper also proposes a secured protocol for computation and defines encryption to be performed before sending inputs for computation. Our protocol uses eenvelopes for sharing keys between parties and TTPs. This key sharing is done on the basis ...

the protest of a third party generally involves three categories of actions: tierce opposition; third party's declaration; and third person's protest such as mentioned in fifth section of civil judgment enforcement act. therefore, there are some differences between third party's opposition to a judgment and third person's protest to enforcement proceedings in regard of conce...

We investigated automatic action item detection from transcripts of multi-party meetings. Unlike previous work (Gruenstein et al., 2005), we use a new hierarchical annotation scheme based on the roles utterances play in the action item assignment process, and propose an approach to automatic detection that promises improved classification accuracy while enabling the extraction of useful informa...

Party politicians in dominant party autocracies are not always in charge of taking the most important authoritative decisions in a country. Instead, it is the bureaucracy -staffed by non-party menthe one in charge of deciding the policies of the country and party politicians the ones in charge of controlling the opposition and implementing some of these policies. This role differentiation affec...

This paper examines how three Dutch political parties employ the Internet as a tool to enhance ‘digital democracy’. The potential of digital democracy is considered to be strongest in the sphere of collective action outside the domain of political institutions. In this article, however, attention is given to how institutionalized channels might be supportive of digital democracy. Three componen...