Abstract. E-government services usually process large amounts of confidential data. Therefore, security requirements for the communication between components have to be adhered in...
— Incentive protocols play a crucial role to encourage cooperation among nodes in networking applications. The aim of this paper is to provide a general analytical framework to a...
Abstract. This work considers the problem of approximating fixed predicate constraint satisfaction problems (MAX k-CSP(P)). We show that if the set of assignments accepted by P co...
Multi-agent systems where the members are developed by parties with competing interests, and where there is no access to a member’s internal state, are often classified as ‘o...
A fundamental aspect of rating-based recommender systems is the observation process, the process by which users choose the items they rate. Nearly all research on collaborative ...