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ATAL
2007
Springer
14 years 22 days ago
Resolving conflict and inconsistency in norm-regulated virtual organizations
Norm-governed virtual organizations define, govern and facilitate coordinated resource sharing and problem solving in societies of agents. With an explicit account of norms, openn...
Wamberto Weber Vasconcelos, Martin J. Kollingbaum,...
SIGMETRICS
2011
ACM
140views Hardware» more  SIGMETRICS 2011»
12 years 11 months ago
On the stability and optimality of universal swarms
Recent work on BitTorrent swarms has demonstrated that a bandwidth bottleneck at the seed can lead to the underutilization of the aggregate swarm capacity. Bandwidth underutilizat...
Xia Zhou, Stratis Ioannidis, Laurent Massouli&eacu...
CCS
2007
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Managing RBAC states with transitive relations
In this paper, we study the maintenance of role-based access control (RBAC) models in database environments using transitive closure relations. In particular, the algorithms that ...
Chaoyi Pang, David P. Hansen, Anthony J. Maeder
ACMICEC
2006
ACM
191views ECommerce» more  ACMICEC 2006»
14 years 2 months ago
An ontology of trust: formal semantics and transitivity
This paper formalizes the semantics of trust and studies the transitivity of trust. On the Web, people and software agents have to interact with “strangers”. This makes trust ...
Jingwei Huang, Mark S. Fox
SIAMCOMP
2011
13 years 3 months ago
The Chow Parameters Problem
Abstract. In the 2nd Annual FOCS (1961), Chao-Kong Chow proved that every Boolean threshold function is uniquely determined by its degree-0 and degree-1 Fourier coefficients. These...
Ryan O'Donnell, Rocco A. Servedio