We previously developed a social mechanism for distributed reputation management, in which an agent combines testimonies from several witnesses to determine its ratings of another...
The Semantic Web consists of many RDF graphs nameable by URIs. This paper extends the syntax and semantics of RDF to cover such Named Graphs. This enables RDF statements that desc...
Jeremy J. Carroll, Christian Bizer, Patrick J. Hay...
A norm-governed agent takes social norms into account in its practical reasoning. Such norms characterise its role within a specific organisational context. By adopting a role, th...
In this paper, we propose a probabilistic framework targeting three important issues in the computation of quality and trust in decentralized systems. Specifically, our approach a...
: Nowadays many organisations share sensitive services through open network systems and this raises the need for an authorization framework that can interoperate even when the part...
Uche M. Mbanaso, G. S. Cooper, David W. Chadwick, ...