Collaborative information systems in a P2P scenario are characterized by a set of independent peers that dynamically need to cooperate by sharing data and services. For effective c...
Devis Bianchini, Valeria De Antonellis, Michele Me...
Abstract. Nowadays, digital libraries are inherently dispersed over several peers of a steadily increasing network. Dedicated peers may provide specialized, computationally expensi...
Emerging approaches to enforce some form of protection in (pseudo)anonymous peer to peer systems propose the use of reputations as a means to establish the reliability of servents...
Ernesto Damiani, Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati,...
We present a novel hybrid communication protocol that guarantees mobile users' k-anonymity against a wide-range of adversaries by exploiting the capability of handheld devices...
Reputation mechanisms help peers in a peer-to-peer (P2P) system avoid unreliable or malicious peers. In application-level networks, however, short peer life-times mean reputations...
Gayatri Swamynathan, Ben Y. Zhao, Kevin C. Almerot...