Abstract—The distributed nature and large scale of MapReduce programs and systems poses two challenges in using existing profiling and debugging tools to understand MapReduce pr...
This paper proposes a study of the IPTV world, focusing on network and system architectures, video codecs, network protocols, services and quality assurance. Based on this study, a...
We introduce the Consensual N-Player Prisoner’s Dilemma as a large-scale dilemma. We then present a framework for cooperative consensus formation in large-scale MAS under the N-P...
Deontic logic is appropriate to model a wide variety of legal arguments, however this logic suffers form certain paradoxes of which the so-called Chisholm is one of the most notor...
Abstract. In this paper, we examine a trust-based framework for promoting honesty in e-marketplaces that relies on buyers forming social networks to share reputation ratings of sel...