We consider the problem of designing automated strategies for interactions with human subjects, where the humans must be rewarded for performing certain tasks of interest. We focu...
What do our computer systems do all day? How do we make sure they continue doing it when failures occur? Traditional approaches to answering these questions often involve inband m...
Dan Pelleg, Muli Ben-Yehuda, Richard Harper, Lisa ...
This paper introduces the PeerAccess framework for reasoning about authorization in open distributed systems, and shows how a parameterization of the framework can be used to reas...
Marianne Winslett, Charles C. Zhang, Piero A. Bona...
We introduce the concept of reflection principle as a knowledge representation paradigm in a computational logic setting. Reflection principles are expressed as certain kinds of l...
Jonas Barklund, Pierangelo Dell'Acqua, Stefania Co...
Authority flow is an effective ranking mechanism for answering queries on a broad class of data. Systems have been developed to apply this principle on the Web (PageRank and topic ...