In this paper we provide a quantum public-key cryptosystem based on super dense coding technology. A user Alice shares a set of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) pairs with a key management center (KMC) in which the particles hold by Alice are the private key and the particle hold by KMC are the public key. By the help of the key management center any other user can send encrypted message to Alice....

In her article "Pullinger's and Joseph's Inanimate Alice and Intercultural Engagement" Ana Abril analyzes Kate Pullinger's and Chris Joseph's digital graphic novel and game. Inanimate Alice offers a model for online education environments and has been widely acclaimed. However, Abril's analysis suggests possible ways for improving the empathic and educational potential of the novel/game for int...

monitoring interface; concrete implementations for MySQL [8] and MonALISA [9] are already available. The PROOF basic scheduler implementation provides the possibility to assign the worker nodes based on the load and the group priority according to the simple formula: Nworkers = N f ree CPU · f · P̄j + Nmin where N f ree CPU is the number of free CPUs on the cluster nodes, f and Nmin are, respect...