This paper presents a novel mechanism that seeks to allow people to explore large collections of loosely structured audio. The approach provides a lightweight preview mechanism th...
Monica M. C. Schraefel, Maria Karam, Shengdong Zha...
To mitigate identity theft in SIP networks, an inter-domain authentication mechanism based on certificates is proposed in RFC 4474 [10]. Unfortunately, the design of the certificat...
Ge Zhang, Jordi Jaen Pallares, Yacine Rebahi, Simo...
We address long-term coalitions that are formed of both customer and vendor agents after evaluating their trust relationships with other agents in the system. We present a coalitio...
Many researchers are devising algorithms for task placement in distributed systems, but few are designing the necessary mechanisms to provide the information required by those alg...
Representation of negotiations in electronic markets and their support are important issues in today's e-commerce research. Whereas most activities are focused on automation ...