This paper formalizes the semantics of trust and studies the transitivity of trust. On the Web, people and software agents have to interact with “strangers”. This makes trust ...
Despite the fact that software development is an inherently collaborative activity, a great deal of software development is spent with developers in isolation, working on their ow...
Isabella A. da Silva, Ping Chen, Christopher van d...
The increasing complexity of clinical trials has generated an enormous requirement for knowledge and information specification at all stages of the trials, including planning, doc...
Ravi D. Shankar, Susana B. Martins, Martin J. O'Co...
The design and development of social robots that interact and assist people in daily life requires moving into unconstrained daily-life environments. This presents unexplored meth...
Fumihide Tanaka, Javier R. Movellan, Bret Fortenbe...
The academic community has long acknowledged the existence of malicious botnets, however to date, very little is known about the behavior of these distributed computing platforms....
Moheeb Abu Rajab, Jay Zarfoss, Fabian Monrose, And...