In this paper, we present the idea of offline count-limited certificates (or clics for short), and show how these can be implemented using minimal trusted hardware functionality a...
Luis F. G. Sarmenta, Marten van Dijk, Jonathan Rho...
Provision of services within a virtual framework for resource sharing across institutional boundaries has become an active research area. Many such services encode access to compu...
Generating adequate recommendations for newcomers is a hard problem for a recommender system (RS) due to lack of detailed user profiles and social preference data. Empirical evide...
Patricia Victor, Chris Cornelis, Ankur Teredesai, ...
The Semantic Web is bound to be untrustworthy and inconsistent. In this paper, we present an initial approach for obtaining useful information in such an environment. In particular...
Ratings (also known as recommendations) provide an efficient and effective way to build trust relationship in the human society, by making use of the information from others rathe...