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In a witness hiding protocol the prover tries to convince the verifier that he knows a witness to an instance of an NP problem without revealing the witness. We propose a new look at witness hiding based on the information conveyed in each particular instance of the protocol. We introduce the concept of individual witness hiding (IWH) and prove that zero-knowledge protocols for classical problems like HAM are not IWH. On the other hand, we show that all FewP problems have an IWH protocol. Finally, by introducing a Kolmogorov string commitment protocol we can show that all FewP problems have an IWH protocol that is zero-knowledge relative to an oracle.

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In the last decade blended learning activities become increasingly popular in the education. According to the current assumption that blended learning equates to the mixture of on-line conferencing and traditional face-to-face learning and contacting. This approach is useful as well as for teaching at institutions as well as for the mobility of students and teachers. Technological possibilities are especially important, while they enable the mobility of students and teachers, in the cases like economic reasons, time constraints, family needs or any other reasons. Without technological supported mobility, those participants would not be able to experience exchange. By mixing technologies and different learning approaches, much has changed in education. Among the new additional challenges of today's education are cross cultural challenges and preparation. Considering this awareness, project experiences and practices in various projects related to blended learning and cultural issues, we will present our suggestions and lessons learned in cross cultural preparation.

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Indoor localization systems typically determine a position using either ranging measurements, inertial sensors, environmental-specific signatures or some combination of all of these methods. Given a floor plan, inertial and signature-based systems can converge on accurate locations by slowly pruning away inconsistent states as a user walks through the space. In contrast, range-based systems are capable of instantly acquiring locations, but they rely on densely deployed beacons and suffer from inaccurate range measurements given non-line-of-sight (NLOS) signals. In order to get the best of both worlds, we present an approach that systematically exploits the geometry information derived from building floor plans to directly improve location acquisition in range-based systems. Our solving approach can disambiguate multiple feasible locations taking into account a mix of LOS and NLOS hypotheses to accurately localize with significantly fewer beacons. We demonstrate our geometry-aware solving approach using a new ultrasonic beacon platform that is able to perform direct time-of-flight ranges on commodity smartphones. The platform uses Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) for time synchronization and ultrasound for measuring propagation distance. We evaluate our system's accuracy with multiple deployments in a university campus and show that our approach shifts the 80% accuracy point from 4-8m to 1m as compared to solvers that do not use the floor plan information. We are able to detect and remove NLOS signals with 91.5% accuracy.

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The growth of intermittent renewable power generation has been drawing attention to the design of balancing markets. Portugal is an interesting case study because, while wind generation already accounts for a high fraction of demand (23%), there are still no economic incentives for efficient wind forecast (wind balancing costs are passed to end consumers). We analyze the evolution of the balancing market from 2012 to 2016. Using actual costs provided by the Portuguese TSO, we find wind imbalance costs in the range of 2 to 4 EUR/MWh. These results surprisingly suggest that, even with large wind penetration and socialized imbalance costs, wind forecast errors can have a relatively low cost.