Abstract—Complex networks consisting of humans and software services, such as Web-based social and collaborative environments, typically require flexible and context-based inter...
We previously developed a social mechanism for distributed reputation management, in which an agent combines testimonies from several witnesses to determine its ratings of another...
Recently, there has been much excitement in the research community over using social networks to mitigate multiple identity, or Sybil, attacks. A number of schemes have been propo...
Bimal Viswanath, Ansley Post, P. Krishna Gummadi, ...
Abstract-- In peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, reputation aggregation and peer ranking are the most time-consuming and spacedemanding operations. This paper proposes a gossip-based rep...
Several operations of Web-based applications are optimized with respect to the set of resources that will receive the majority of requests in the near future, namely the hot set. U...