We give an overview of GRIP, a symmetry reduction tool for the probabilistic model checker PRISM, together with experimental results for a selection of example specifications. 1 ...
This paper formalizes the semantics of trust and studies the transitivity of trust. On the Web, people and software agents have to interact with “strangers”. This makes trust ...
As we progress, society must intelligently address the following question: How much risk is acceptable? How we answer this question could have important consequences for the futur...
U. S. Bhatt, David E. Newman, Benjamin A. Carreras...
We consider experiments to measure the quality of a web search algorithm based on how much total time users take to complete assigned search tasks using that algorithm. We first ...
We study computer virology from an abstract point of view. Viruses and worms are self-replicating programs, whose constructions are essentially based on Kleene's second recurs...