Reputation System provides a way to maintain trust through social control by utilizing feedbacks about the service providers’ past behaviors. Conventional Memory-based Reputatio...
Abstract— The deployment of converged services of TV, telephony, and Internet access over IP entails a significant initial investment for service providers. This investment is n...
Referral networks are a kind of P2P system consisting of autonomous agents who seek and provide services, or refer other service providers. Key applications include service discove...
We study the problem of agents attempting to find quality service providers in a distributed environment. While referrals from other agents can be used to locate high-quality prov...
Experience-based service selection refers to selection of service providers using others' experiences. An agent can represent its experience (its demand and received service) ...
Currently many service providers offer their services using a private and proprietary hard- and software infrastructure. These infrastructures often share many similarities. Hence...
Jeroen Famaey, Tim Wauters, Filip De Turck, Bart D...
There are many applications for Secure Multi-Party Computation (SMC), but practical adoption is still an issue. One reason is that the business model of the application does not m...
Recent advances in the wireless communication and mobile telecommunications have made mobile commerce possible. In the retail business under the evolving market, the users solicit...
Service providers and enterprises all over the world are rapidly deploying Voice over IP (VoIP) networks because of reduced capital and operational expenditure, and easy creation o...
Shipra Agrawal, P. P. S. Narayan, Jeyashankher Ram...
Abstract. Today we see more and more services being brought to connected homes, such as entertainment or home automation. These services are published and operated by a variety of ...