Agents are becoming a popular technology for the development of distributed, heterogeneous and always available systems. In those systems, interactions are essential, but semantic ...
In this paper we develop a novel probabilistic model of computational trust that explicitly deals with correlated multi-dimensional contracts. Our starting point is to consider an...
Steven Reece, Alex Rogers, Stephen Roberts, Nichol...
Since there is no method to verify the trustworthiness of shared files in P2P systems, malicious peers can spread untrustworthy files to the system. In order to prevent untrustw...
A new generation of distributed systems and applications rely on the cooperation of diverse user populations motivated by self-interest. While they can utilize “reputation syste...
Gayatri Swamynathan, Ben Y. Zhao, Kevin C. Almerot...
This paper introduces Online Alchemy's Otello technology as a way to enable reputational capabilities beyond any found in games or other online social contexts today. This te...