Abstract. In the future it is likely that peer communities will be routinely established for the purpose of sharing electronic resources and targeted information among groups of pe...
This paper presents a framework for context-aware applications, with a particular focus on collaboration and pervasiveness. The framework relies on distributed ontologies, which ar...
Most applications that are in use today inter-operate with other applications, so-called peers, over a network. The analysis of such distributed applications requires that the effe...
In peer-to-peer (P2P) environments, trust is a very important issue when transactions/interactions occur between peers. In general, the trust evaluation on transactions/interactio...
We develop a model of the interaction of rational peers in an incentive-free Peer-to-Peer (P2P) network and use game theoretic analysis to derive results about peer and network be...