In an unpredictable, heterogeneous world, intelligent agents depend on accurate social information; reputation, among the preeminent artifacts to transmit social evaluations, has b...
Isaac Pinyol, Mario Paolucci, Jordi Sabater-Mir, R...
Today, a number of algorithms exist for constructing tag hierarchies from social tagging data. While these algorithms were designed with ontological goals in mind, we know very li...
BOINC is a middleware for Volunteer Computing. In BOINC projects, heterogeneous resources distributed across the Internet are used for large-scale scientific simulations. The larg...
James Atlas, Trilce Estrada, Keith Decker, Michela...
Abstract. We target application domains where the behavior of animals or humans is monitored using wireless sensor network (WSN) devices. The code on these devices is updated frequ...
Drawing on a sample of 493 respondents from 21 counties in a southeastern state, this study examines the rate of business start-ups in relation to various measures of community so...