Service Oriented Computing is emerging as a reference model for a new class of distributed computing technologies such as Web Services and the Grid. We discuss three main aspects ...
Abstract— Evaluating and quantifying trust stimulates collaboration in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). Many existing reputation systems sharply divide the trust value into right...
Abstract The Internet provides a ubiquitous, standards-based substrate for global communications of all kinds. Rapid advances are now being made in agreeing protocols and machine-p...
In this paper we address the weaknesses of current EC applications related to their lack of support for the customer to recognize other people, either other customers or vendors o...
The challenges ensuing from the asymmetric communication capabilities of mobile environments have led to an increased interest in broadcast-based data dissemination. Among the conc...