Coalition formation is a problem of great interest in AI, allowing groups of autonomous, rational agents to form stable teams. Furthermore, the study of coalitional stability conc...
— Currently used IP routing protocols calculate and only use a single path between two nodes of a network, or in the best case, only paths with the same cost (with OSPF2 or IS-IS...
-- To date, not enough attention has been paid to issues surrounding the description and enforcement of policies for controlling Grid resources. These policies define the permitted...
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) file sharing networks attract much attention from legal and research communities. The success and popularity of P2P networks provides a new paradigm for sharing...
Hao Shi, Yanchun Zhang, Jingyuan Zhang, Elizabeth ...
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 ...