Abstract. The need for protecting the privacy of relationships in social networks has recently been stressed in the literature. Conventional protection mechanisms in those networks...
— As the number of online auction sites has increased, interest towards providing reliable summaries, reputations, about the past behaviour of sellers has risen. Existing approac...
— The potential of truly large scale grids can only be realized with grid architectures and deployment strategies that lower the need for human administrative intervention, and t...
— This paper proposes a new approach for handling overload in Publish/Subscribe systems. We focus on the fact that every service has to cope with the limitations imposed by the e...
In distributed scenarios the robustness of a reputation mechanism depends on the data available for computation. Especially in ad-hoc networks the amount of available data is rest...