In this paper we investigate how people use online rating information to inform decision making. We examine whether a theory of searching for information to discriminate between a...
Abstract. Context-awareness refers to a computing model where application behavior is driven by a continually-changing environment. Mobile computing poses unique challenges to cont...
Reputation systems facilitate cooperation in open environments. Centrality-based reputation systems use centrality measures to rank individuals, i.e., compute their reputation bas...
This paper addresses the challenge of recognizing behavior of groups of individuals in unconstraint surveillance environments. As opposed to approaches that rely on agglomerative ...
Grid environments enable users to share non-dedicated resources that lack performance guarantees. This paper describes the design of application-centric middleware components to a...