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ATAL
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Distributed task allocation in social networks
This paper proposes a new variant of the task allocation problem, where the agents are connected in a social network and tasks arrive at the agents distributed over the network. W...
Mathijs de Weerdt, Yingqian Zhang, Tomas Klos
INFOCOM
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Optimal and Scalable Distribution of Content Updates over a Mobile Social Network
—We study the dissemination of dynamic content, such as news or traffic information, over a mobile social network. In this application, mobile users subscribe to a dynamic-conte...
Stratis Ioannidis, Augustin Chaintreau, Laurent Ma...
IPPS
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Improving cooperation in peer-to-peer systems using social networks
Rational and selfish nodes in P2P systems usually lack effective incentives to cooperate, contributing to the increase of free-riders, and degrading the system performance. Variou...
Wenyu Wang, Li Zhao, Ruixi Yuan
ACSAC
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Enabling Secure Secret Sharing in Distributed Online Social Networks
—We study a new application of threshold-based secret sharing in a distributed online social network (DOSN), where users need a means to back up and recover their private keys in...
Le-Hung Vu, Karl Aberer, Sonja Buchegger, Anwitama...
INFOCOM
2012
IEEE
11 years 10 months ago
SybilDefender: Defend against sybil attacks in large social networks
—Distributed systems without trusted identities are particularly vulnerable to sybil attacks, where an adversary creates multiple bogus identities to compromise the running of th...
Wei Wei, Fengyuan Xu, Chiu Chiang Tan, Qun Li