RFID technology often is suspected to provide means of undesired surveillance and observation of people in their roles, e.g., as private persons, customers of any business or employees. Here, an opposite scope of application sample shows how such technology based on intelligent smart cards can help improving secrecy in a sensitive environment. The annual election runs for the representatives of...

A majority of truth-seeking voters wants to choose the alternative that better matches state world, but may disagree on which is best match due private information. When we have an arbitrary number alternatives and sophisticated partisan exist in electorate, electing correct challenging. We show multi-round runoff voting achieves asymptotically full-information equivalence. That is, when societ...

In this paper, we propose a blind multisignature scheme based on an extension of the RSA cryptosystem (called the ERSA system). Taking advantage of the scheme, we then present a new multiauthority electronic election system, which can meet all of the following requirements: eligibility, collision free, vigorousness of authorities, accuracy, privacy, verifiability, robustness, fairness, and prev...

The complexity of distributed computing systems and their increasing interaction with the physical world impose challenging requirements in terms of adaptation, robustness, and resilience to attack. Given the ability of natural organisms to respond to adversity, many researchers have investigated biologicallyinspired approaches to designing robust distributed systems. Examples include biomimeti...

The goal of the standards is to “address what a voting system should reliably do, not how system components should be configured to meet these requirement” [7, Vol I §1.1]. The standards present a certification procedure involving testing by Independent Testing Authorities (ITAs or, simply, Testing Authorities), and many jurisdictions cannot use systems that are uncertified. Virtually all vendo...

In IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) a specific node (called the PAN coordinator or sink) controls the whole network. When the network operates in a multihop fashion, the position of the PAN coordinator has a significant impact on the performance: it strongly affects network energy consumption for both topology formation and data routing. The development of efficient self-man...

T he 2008 annual Math Awareness Month theme features the unusual combination of “Mathematics and Voting”. The importance of voting is obvious; indeed, with the United States election season hard upon us, discussions about voting are seemingly nonstop. More generally, on almost any day of any year the news media reports on some consequential election going on somewhere in the world. But what doe...

Abstract French presidential elections 2022 have significantly strengthened anti-EU populists. Traditional mainstream centrists are not among the big three election winners, while far-right Marine Le Pen deftly addressed plight of disengaged. The country’s rural-urban divide masks significant differences in voting motives; Paris is a stark outlier. Unemployment rates, low skills, and car depend...

Analyses of the effects of election outcomes on the economy have been hampered by the problem that economic outcomes also influence elections. We sidestep these problems by analyzing movements in economic indicators caused by clearly exogenous changes in expectations about the likely winner during Election Day. Analyzing high frequency financial fluctuations following the release of flawed exit...