Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) provide infrastructures to make resources available to other participants in the network as independent services. However, service providers, n...
Abstract— We present a distributed scheme for trust inference in peer-to-peer networks. Our work is in context of the NICE system, which is a platform for implementing cooperativ...
In this paper, we present some guidelines for implementing various financial instruments for the purposes of credit and payment, including protocols for commercial transactions, di...
The existing credit-based mechanisms mainly focus on stimulating the rational packet droppers to relay other nodes' packets, but they cannot identify the irrational packet dro...
We consider the problem of the exact simulation of random variables Z that satisfy the distributional identity Z L = V Y + (1 − V )Z, where V ∈ [0, 1] and Y are independent, an...