Abstract—In this paper we explore the incentive and architectural issues that arise in Consortia of Peer-to-Peer Wireless Local Area Networks. A P2P WLAN Consortium (PWC) is a co...
Panayotis Antoniadis, Costas Courcoubetis, Elias C...
The early 1980s saw the development of some rather sophisticated distributed systems. These were not merely networked file systems: rather, using remote procedure calls, hierarchi...
Public Key technology is about multiple parties across different domains making assertions that can be chained together to make trust judgments. Today, the need for more interoper...
Many sectors of the military are interested in Self-Organized (SO) systems because of their flexibility, versatility and economics. The military is researching and employing auto...
Dustin J. Nowak, Gary B. Lamont, Gilbert L. Peters...
In a reputation-based trust-management system, agents maintain information about the past behaviour of other agents. This information is used to guide future trust-based decisions...