We study protocols to enable one user (the principal) to make potentially profitable but risky interactions with another user (the agent), in the absence of direct trust between ...
As it lacks central management in Peer-to-Peer (P2P) e-commerce environments, prior to new transactions with an unknown peer, the trust evaluation is critical, which relies on the ...
Yan Wang 0002, Duncan S. Wong, Kwei-Jay Lin, Vijay...
In open environments in which autonomous agents can break contracts, computational models of trust have an important role to play in determining who to interact with and how inter...
Sarvapali D. Ramchurn, Nicholas R. Jennings, Carle...
Grid computing systems that have been the focus of much research activities in recent years provide a virtual framework for controlled sharing of resources across institutional bo...
Abstract— Structured peer-to-peer systems have grown enormously because of their scalability, efficiency and reliability. These systems assign a unique identifier to each user ...
Sunam Ryu, Kevin R. B. Butler, Patrick Traynor, Pa...