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JAIR
2011
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13 years 2 months ago
A Probabilistic Approach for Maintaining Trust Based on Evidence
Leading agent-based trust models address two important needs. First, they show how an agent may estimate the trustworthiness of another agent based on prior interactions. Second, ...
Yonghong Wang, Chung-Wei Hang, Munindar P. Singh
IPAW
2010
13 years 5 months ago
Provenance of Decisions in Emergency Response Environments
Mitigating the devastating ramifications of major disasters requires emergency workers to respond in a maximally efficient way. Information systems can improve their efficiency by ...
Iman Naja, Luc Moreau, Alex Rogers
IEEEPACT
2008
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Characterizing and modeling the behavior of context switch misses
One of the essential features in modern computer systems is context switching, which allows multiple threads of execution to time-share a limited number of processors. While very ...
Fang Liu, Fei Guo, Yan Solihin, Seongbeom Kim, Abd...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
You've been warned: an empirical study of the effectiveness of web browser phishing warnings
Many popular web browsers now include active phishing warnings since research has shown that passive warnings are often ignored. In this laboratory study we examine the effectiven...
Serge Egelman, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Jason I. Hong
SAINT
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Fair Overload Handling Using Proof-of-Work Functions
Overload can reduce the overall performance of a computer system up to a point where the whole service might collapse. Thus, for example the load on a server must be controlled to...
Sebastian Golze, Gero Mühl