Abstract. Reputation systems help peers decide whom to trust before undertaking a transaction. Conventional approaches to reputation-based trust modeling assume that peers reputed ...
Gayatri Swamynathan, Ben Y. Zhao, Kevin C. Almerot...
Programmers of large-scale trusted systems need tools to simplify tasks such as replicating services or data. Group communication systems achieve this via various flavors of relia...
Through web service technology, distributed applications can be built in a exible manner, bringing tremendous power to applications on the web. However, this exibility poses sig...
After thirty years of work on computer security, why are almost all the systems in service today extremely vulnerable to attack? The main reason is that security is expensive to s...
We describe a design for a collaborative Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) to support massively multi-user and multi-institutional learning communities. This architecture extends...