A social multi-criteria evaluation framework for solving a real-case problem of selecting a wind farm location in the regions of Urgell and Conca de Barberá in Catalonia (northeast of Spain) is studied. This paper applies ...

Codes with the Identifiable Parent Property (IPP codes) form a very useful tool in traitor tracing schemes since they guarantee (with probability 1) identification of at least one of the traitors. We consider a natural ...

Performance measurement is a key issue when a company is designing new strategies to improve resource allocation. This paper offers a new methodology inspired by classic importance-performance analysis (IPA) that provides ...

An estimate of the net direction of climate interactions in different geographical regions is made by constructing a directed climate network from a regular latitude-longitude grid of nodes, using a directionality index ...

Nos encontramos en una sociedad que tiene como motor un cambio tecnológico que permite comunicarse mucho más rápido y mucho más lejos que nunca antes en la historia, pero los cambios tecnológicos son a su vez consecuencia ...

Attribute-based cryptography has emerged in the last years as a promising primitive for digital security. For instance, it provides good solutions to the problem of anonymous access control. In a ciphertextpolicy attribute-based ...

Despite its undeniable advantages, the exponential growth of data analytic capabilities implies a significant increase in the risk of personal privacy loss and re-identification of the individuals appearing in databases. ...

One important result in secret sharing is the Brickell-Davenport Theorem: every ideal perfect secret sharing scheme de nes a matroid that is uniquely determined by the access structure. Even though a few attempts have been ...

Hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets were introduced to grasp the uncertainty existing in human reasoning. In this paper, inspired by absolute order-of-magnitude qualitative reasoning techniques, an extension of the set ...