Reputation systems have been popular in estimating the trustworthiness and predicting the future behavior of nodes in a large-scale distributed system where nodes may transact wit...
Abstract. The Unified Modelling Language (UML) is intended to describe systems, but it is not clear what systems satisfy a given collection of UML diagrams. Stephen Mellor has desc...
Distributed applications that lack a central, trustworthy authority for control and validation are properly termed decentralized. Multiple, independent agencies, or "partners...
Girish Suryanarayana, Justin R. Erenkrantz, Scott ...
Web-based collaboration systems typically require dynamic and context-based interactions between people and services. To support such complex interaction scenarios, we introduce a...
This paper contributes to the analysis of the question how altruistic behaviour can be in an agent’s own interest. The question is addressed by involving a temporal dimension in ...
Tibor Bosse, Martijn C. Schut, Jan Treur, David We...