Peer-to-peer file-sharing networks are currently receiving much attention as a means of sharing and distributing information. However, as recent experience shows, the anonymous, o...
Sepandar D. Kamvar, Mario T. Schlosser, Hector Gar...
In commercial transactions, an intermediary might be involved to help transacting parties to conduct their business. Nevertheless, the intermediary may not be fully trusted. In th...
Jose Antonio Onieva, Jianying Zhou, Mildrey Carbon...
We examine a setting in which a buyer wishes to purchase probabilistic information from some agent. The seller must invest effort in order to gain access to the information, and m...
With the consolidation of the Internet and other computer networks, the need of sophisticated systems to retrieve information increased enormously. In these networks, information ...
Rafael T. de Sousa Jr., Alexandre C. V. de Oliveir...
Abstract. Collaborative Ubiquitous Environments (CUEs) are environments supporting collaboration among persons in a ubiquitous computing setting. This paper shows how results of th...