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CSE
2009
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Security and Trust through Electronic Social Network-Based Interactions
—The success of a Public Key Infrastructure such as the Web of Trust (WoT) heavily depends on its ability to ensure that public keys are used by their legitimate owners, thereby ...
Patrik Bichsel, Samuel Müller, Franz-Stefan P...
CCS
2003
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Using graphic turing tests to counter automated DDoS attacks against web servers
We present WebSOS, a novel overlay-based architecture that provides guaranteed access to a web server that is targeted by a denial of service (DoS) attack. Our approach exploits t...
William G. Morein, Angelos Stavrou, Debra L. Cook,...
CSE
2009
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Inferring Unobservable Inter-community Links in Large Social Networks
Abstract—Social networks can be used to model social interactions between individuals. In many circumstances, not all interactions between individuals are observed. In such cases...
Heath Hohwald, Manuel Cebrián, Arturo Canal...
KDD
2006
ACM
179views Data Mining» more  KDD 2006»
14 years 8 months ago
Group formation in large social networks: membership, growth, and evolution
The processes by which communities come together, attract new members, and develop over time is a central research issue in the social sciences -- political movements, professiona...
Lars Backstrom, Daniel P. Huttenlocher, Jon M. Kle...
GROUP
2010
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Searching for reputable source code on the web
Looking for source code on the Web is a common practice among software developers. Previous research has shown that developers use social cues over technical cues to evaluate sour...
Rosalva E. Gallardo-Valencia, Phitchayaphong Tanti...