This paper considers a distributed system of software agents who cooperate in helping their users to find services, provided by different agents. The agents need to ensure that th...
— Trust management, broadly intended as the ability to maintain belief relationship among entities, is recognized as a fundamental security challenge for autonomous and selforgan...
Traditional Public Key Infrastructures (PKI) have not lived up to their promise because there are too many ways to define PKIs, too many cryptographic primitives to build them wi...
Chris Lesniewski-Laas, Bryan Ford, Jacob Strauss, ...
We study the specification of access control policy in large-scale distributed systems. Our work on real-world policies has shown that standard policy idioms such as role hierarc...
Referral networks are a kind of P2P system consisting of autonomous agents who seek, provide services, or refer other service providers. Key applications include service discovery...