The current set of social networking platforms, e.g. Facebook and MySpace, has created a new class of Internet applications called social software. These systems focus on leveragi...
E. Michael Maximilien, Tyrone Grandison, Kun Liu, ...
SybilInfer is an algorithm for labelling nodes in a social network as honest users or Sybils controlled by an adversary. At the heart of SybilInfer lies a probabilistic model of h...
—The majority of security protocols employ public key cryptography for authentication at least in the connection setup phase. However, verifying digital signatures is an expensiv...
In many applications involving composite Web services, one or more component services may become unavailable. This presents us with the problem of identifying other components tha...
The popularity of social bookmarking sites has made them prime targets for spammers. Many of these systems require an administrator’s time and energy to manually filter or remo...