Compared to offline shopping, the online shopping experience may be viewed as lacking human warmth and sociability as it is more impersonal, anonymous, automated and generally dev...
Dianne Cyr, Khaled Hassanein, Milena M. Head, Alex...
Spontaneous interaction in wireless ad-hoc networks is often desirable not only between users or devices in direct contact, but also with devices that are accessible only via a wi...
—In this paper, we introduce an objective model of trust in peer-to-peer networks. Based on this model, we develop protocols that can be used by the peers in a peer-to-peer netwo...
An approach is suggested for arguing that a system is dependable. The key idea is to structure the system so that critical requirements are localized in small, reliable subsets of ...
In this paper we investigate the survivability of multilevel ad-hoc groups for critical operations through a case study. We aim to provide a formal trust framework for establishin...