Abstract. Since the Internet has become a commodity in both wired and wireless environments, new applications and paradigms have emerged to explore this highly distributed and wide...
Reputation is a fundamental instrument of partner selection. Developed within the domain of electronic auctions, reputation technology is being been imported into other applicatio...
—The non-data components of a visualization, such as axes and legends, can often be just as important as the data itself. They provide contextual information essential to interpr...
Automata models of learning systems introduced in the 1960s were popularized as learning automata (LA) in a survey paper in 1974 [1]. Since then, there have been many fundamental a...
Replication is a key mechanism to achieve scalability and fault-tolerance in databases. Its importance has recently been further increased because of the role it plays in achievin...