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Open-source software is a complex system; its development depends on the self-coordinated action of a large number of agents. This study follows the size of the building blocks, called "packages", of the Ubuntu Linux operating system over…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-03-04 Marco Gherardi , Salvatore Mandrà , Bruno Bassetti , Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino

The widespread adoption of open source libraries and frameworks can be attributed to their licensing. Open Source Software Licenses (OSS licenses) ensure that software can be sold or distributed as part of aggregate programs from various…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Raula Gaikovina Kula , Brittany Anne Reid , Christoph Treude

We propose a novel perspective on varied-density clustering for high-dimensional data by framing it as a label propagation process in neighborhood graphs that adapt to local density variations. Our method formally connects density-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Ninh Pham , Yingtao Zheng , Hugo Phibbs

Device-independent quantum key distribution does not need a precise quantum mechanical model of employed devices to guarantee security. Despite of its beauty, it is still a very challenging experimental task. We compare a recent proposal by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Marcos Curty , Tobias Moroder

The software development lifecycle depends heavily on the testing process, which is an essential part of finding issues and reviewing the quality of software. Software testing can be done in two ways: manually and automatically. With an…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Hussein Mohammed Ali , Mahmood Yashar Hamza , Tarik Ahmed Rashid

Memoryless computation is a new technique to compute any function of a set of registers by updating one register at a time while using no memory. Its aim is to emulate how computations are performed in modern cores, since they typically…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-10-23 Peter J. Cameron , Ben Fairbairn , Maximilien Gadouleau

Device-independent quantum key distribution aims to provide key distribution schemes whose security is based on the laws of quantum physics but which does not require any assumptions about the internal working of the quantum devices used in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-03-18 Lluis Masanes , Stefano Pironio , Antonio Acin

We present MPWide, a platform independent communication library for performing message passing between computers. Our library allows coupling of several local MPI applications through a long distance network and is specifically optimized…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-08-18 Derek Groen , Steven Rieder , Paola Grosso , Cees de Laat , Simon Portegies Zwart

This review investigates the pivotal role of distributed architectures and intelligent resource allocation in enabling robust and scalable wireless systems, with a particular emphasis on backscatter communication, indoor localization,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Tonghuan Xiao , Jiecheng Zhou

In all existing protocols of private communication with encryption and decryption, the pre-shared key can be used for only one time. We give a deterministic quantum key expansion protocol where the pre-shared key can be recycled. Our…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 X. B. Wang

Random scale-free overlay topologies provide a number of properties like for example high resilience against failures of random nodes, small (average) diameter as well as good expansion and congestion characteristics that make them…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-07-16 Ingo Scholtes

A continuous key distribution scheme is proposed that relies on a pair of canonically conjugate quantum variables. It allows two remote parties to share a secret Gaussian key by encoding it into one of the two quadrature components of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 N. J. Cerf , M. Levy , G. Van Assche

Computer systems have evolved over the years starting from sizable, single-user, slow, and expensive machines to multi-user, fast, cheaper, and small-sized machines. The use of multi-user computer networks has given rise to a new paradigm…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Aneesh Khole , Atharva Thakar , Avadhoot Kulkarni , Hrithik Jadhav , Shreyas Shende , Varad Karajkhede

We develop a model for practical, entanglement-based long-distance quantum key distribution employing entanglement swapping as a key building block. Relying only on existing off-the-shelf technology, we show how to optimize resources so as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-02-23 Artur Scherer , Barry C. Sanders , Wolfgang Tittel

In this paper, we uncover the untapped potential of diffusion U-Net, which serves as a "free lunch" that substantially improves the generation quality on the fly. We initially investigate the key contributions of the U-Net architecture to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Chenyang Si , Ziqi Huang , Yuming Jiang , Ziwei Liu

The dynamic establishment of shared information (e.g. secret key) between two entities is particularly important in networks with no pre-determined structure such as wireless sensor networks (and in general wireless mobile ad-hoc networks).…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2008-12-18 V. Liagkou , E. Makri , P. Spirakis , Y. C. Stamatiou

In this paper, we present a simple model of scale-free networks that incorporates both preferential & random attachment and anti-preferential & random deletion at each time step. We derive the degree distribution analytically and show that…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-05-23 Dinghua Shi , Xiang Zhu , Liming Liu

Direct-sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) has been recognized as an effective jamming resilient technique. However, the effectiveness of DSSS relies on the use of either pre-shared unique secret keys or a bank of public codes, which can be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-21 Jay Prakash , Chenxi Liu , Jemin Lee , Tony Q. S. Quek

Although we have tons of machine learning tools to analyze data, most of them require users have some programming backgrounds. Here we introduce a SaaS application which allows users analyze their data without any coding and even without…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-04-05 Chaochen Wu

Open source projects play a significant role in software production. Most of the software projects reuse and build upon the existing open source projects and libraries. While reusing is a time and cost-saving strategy, some of the key…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Javad Ghofrani , Paria Heravi , Kambiz A. Babaei , Mohammad Soorati