—This paper investigates the Direct Connect (DC) file sharing network, which to the best of our knowledge, has never been academically studied before. We developed a participati...
Knowledge engineering relies on a unified effort of two components for success: 1) a strong expert knowledge back-end, and 2) an effective user interface. We address the latter is...
Victor Chou Hung, Avelino J. Gonzalez, Ronald F. D...
Email client software is widely used for personal task management, a purpose for which it was not designed and is poorly suited. Past attempts to remedy the problem have focused o...
Michael Freed, Jaime G. Carbonell, Geoffrey J. Gor...
Online virtual worlds such as Second Life provide a rich medium for unstructured human interaction in a shared simulated 3D environment. However, many human interactions take place...
We study protocols to enable one user (the principal) to make potentially profitable but risky interactions with another user (the agent), in the absence of direct trust between ...