In distributed scenarios the robustness of a reputation mechanism depends on the data available for computation. Especially in ad-hoc networks the amount of available data is rest...
In the context of the Semantic Web, it may be beneficial for a user (consumer) to receive ratings from other users (advisors) regarding the reliability of an information source (pr...
As web-based online communities are rapidly growing, the agents in the communities need to know their measurable belief of trust for safe and successful interactions. In this pape...
Reputation systems play an important role in many Internet communities. They allow individuals to estimate other individual's behavior during interactions. However, a more pri...
We introduce transaction rate limiters, new mechanisms that limit (probabilistically) the maximum number of transactions a user of a peer-to-peer system can do in any given period...
Marcos Kawazoe Aguilera, Mark Lillibridge, Xiaozho...