Design optimization of structures with discrete and continuous search spaces is a complex optimization problem with lots of local optima. Metaheuristic optimization algorithms, due to not requiring gradient information of the objective function, are efficient tools for solving these problems at a reasonable computational time. In this paper, the Doppler Effect-Mean Euclidian Distance Threshold ...

Preface A secret sharing scheme starts with a secret and then derives from it certain shares (or shadows) which are distributed to users. The secret may be recovered only by certain predetermined groups which belong to the access structure. Secret sharing schemes have been independently introduced by Blakley [12] and Shamir [134] as a solution for safeguarding cryptographic keys. Secret sharing...

In this paper we construct a subclass of the composite access structure introduced in [9] based on schemes realizing the structure given by the set of codewords of minimal support of linear codes. This class enlarges the iterated threshold class studied in the same paper. Furthermore all the schemes on this paper are ideal (in fact they allow a vector space construction) and we arrived to give ...

Data structures for combinatorial objects are traditionally designed to handle objects up to a certain size. We introduce the idea of threshold data structures: representations that allow a richer collection of operations on small objects than large ones. As illustrations of the general concept we discuss threshold data structures for sets and multisets, and show how the former can be applied t...

Convergent replicated data types, or CvRDTs, are latticebased data structures for enforcing the eventual consistency of replicated objects in a distributed system. Although CvRDTs are provably eventually consistent, queries of CvRDTs nevertheless allow inconsistent intermediate states of replicas to be observed; and although in practice, many systems allow a mix of eventually consistent and str...

In this work, an oblivious transfer with complex access control scheme that is constructed based on ciphertext policy attribute based encryption (CP-ABE) scheme is proposed. In this scheme, the database server can enforce fine grained access control for each record where the authorized user is allowed to access, but the unauthorized user cannot, whereas it learns neither which record a user acc...

We propose an asymptotically optimal multiversion B-tree. In our setting, insertions and deletions of data items are allowed only for the present version, whereas range queries and exact match queries are allowed for any version, present or past. The technique we present for transforming a (usual single version) B-tree into a multiversion B-tree is more general: it applies to a number of spatia...

Several applications require management of data which is spatially dynamic, e.g., tracking of battle ships or moving cells in a blood sample. The capability of handling the temporal aspect, i.e., the history of such type of data, is also important. This paper presents and evaluates three temporal extensions of the R-tree, the 3D R-tree, the 2+3 R-tree and the HR-tree, which are capable of index...