Reasoning, problem solving, indeed the general process of acquiring knowledge, is not an isolated, homogenous affair involving a one agent using a single form of representation, b...
In this work we consider a distributed system formed by a master processor and a collection of n processors (workers) that can execute tasks; worker processors are untrusted and m...
Graphic cards performance increase and fast Internet connections are popularising Networked Virtual Environments. This immature paradigm of real-time applications has still to sol...
The role-based access control (RBAC) has significantly simplified the management of users and permissions in computing systems. In dynamic environments, systems are usually unde...
How is work created, assigned, and completed on large-scale, crowd-powered systems like Wikipedia? And what design principles might enable these federated online systems to be mor...
Michel Krieger, Emily Margarete Stark, Scott R. Kl...