Reputation mechanisms are a key technique to trust assessment in large-scale decentralized systems. The effectiveness of reputation-based trust management fundamentally relies on ...
The simulation of wireless networks has been an important tool for researchers and the industry in the last years. Especially in the field of Mobile Ad Hoc Networking, most curre...
Web Services emerge as a new paradigm for distributed computing. Model checking is an important verification method to ensure the trustworthiness of composite WS. abstraction and...
The growing success of wireless ad hoc networks and portable hardware devices presents many interesting problems to software engineers. Particular, coordination is a challenging t...
Marco Tulio de Oliveira Valente, Fernando Magno Qu...
Scalability of software engineering methods can be improved by application of the methods to individual components instead of complete systems. This is, however, possible only if ...