Reputation-based mechanisms and policies are vulnerable to the submission of untruthful ratings. In this paper, we define and analyze a game-theoretic model that captures the dyn...
In this paper we analyze a novel paradigm of reliable communications which is not based on the traditional timeout-and-retransmit mechanism of TCP. Our approach, which we call FBP...
According to one common view, information security comes down to technical measures. Given better access control policy models, formal proofs of cryptographic protocols, approved ...
While You're Away (WYA) is a distributed system that aggregates the computational power of individual computer systems. WYA introduces the notion of Roaming Computations - Ja...
In this paper, we provide an analysis of the impacts of some reputation parameters that an agent-based Web service holds while being active in the environment. To this end, we depl...