Virtual coordinate systems provide an accurate and efficient service that allows hosts on the Internet to determine the latency to arbitrary hosts without actively monitoring all ...
Abstract. In peer-to-peer based live streaming systems, a great number of participants have to cooperate to efficiently and reliably distribute a continuous flow of data. Each rec...
Michael Brinkmeier, Mathias Fischer, Sascha Grau, ...
Network attacks have become the fundamental threat to today's largely interconnected computer systems. Unauthorized activities and unauthorized access account for a large pro...
We introduce and investigate a natural extension of Dung’s well-known model of argument systems in which attacks are associated with a weight, indicating the relative strength o...
Paul E. Dunne, Anthony Hunter, Peter McBurney, Sim...
Traders in electronic marketplaces may behave dishonestly, cheating other agents. A multitude of trust and reputation systems have been proposed to try to cope with the problem of...