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 ...
With the near ubiquity of mobile phones, people are reachable almost anywhere and at any time. The convenience this provides for people to more effectively combine different aspec...
Interconnected service providers constitute a highly dynamic, complex, distributed environment. Multi-agent system design-methodologies have been trying to address this kind of env...
Abstract. Although constraint programming offers a wealth of strong, generalpurpose methods, in practice a complex, real application demands a person who selects, combines, and ref...
The plethora of content available to the consumer has become overwhelming. Increasing amounts of information are being disseminated through terrestrial broadcast, satellite, and c...
Srinivas Gutta, Kaushal Kurapati, K. P. Lee, Jacqu...