Despite the advantages offered by pure Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks (e.g. robustness and fault tolerance), a crucial requirement is to guarantee basic security properties, such as ...
Managing trust is a key issue for a wide acceptance of P2P computing, particularly in critical areas such as e-commerce. Reputation-based trust management has been identified in t...
Abstract. We present a scalable and flexible grouping service based on concast and best-effort single-source multicast. The service assigns participating end systems to specific gr...
A growing body of literature in networked systems research relies on game theory and mechanism design to model and address the potential lack of cooperation between self-intereste...
Honeybees coordinate foraging efforts across vast areas through a complex system of advertising and recruitment. One mechanism for coordination is the waggle dance, a movement patt...