The formation of a Virtual Enterprise and the selection of its partners is an important process in the lifecycle of a Virtual Enterprise. In this paper, we present the Virtual Ent...
Sobah Abbas Petersen, Jinghai Rao, Mihhail Matskin
When people engage in conversation, they tailor their utterances to their conversational partners, whether these partners are other humans or computational systems. This tailoring...
Marilyn A. Walker, Steve Whittaker, Amanda Stent, ...
Computational Trust and Reputation (CTR) systems are platforms capable of collecting trust information about candidate partners and of computing confidence scores for each one of t...
Relational index structures, as for instance the Relational Interval Tree, the Relational R-Tree, or the Linear Quadtree, support efficient processing of queries on top of existing...
Hans-Peter Kriegel, Peter Kunath, Martin Pfeifle, ...
Online advertisers face substantial difficulty in selecting and supervising small advertising partners: Fraud can be well-hidden, and limited reputation systems reduce accountabili...