This paper formalizes the semantics of trust and studies the transitivity of trust. On the Web, people and software agents have to interact with “strangers”. This makes trust ...
A blossoming paradigm for block-recursive matrix algorithms is presented that, at once, attains excellent performance measured by • time, • TLB misses, • L1 misses, • L2 m...
Standardized middleware is used to build large distributed real-time and enterprise (DRE) systems. These middleware are highly flexible and support a large number of features sin...
We evaluate response times, in N-user collaborations, of the popular centralized (client-server) and replicated (peer-to-peer) architectures, and a hybrid architecture in which ea...
This paper addresses the difficult problem of selecting representative samples of peer properties (e.g., degree, link bandwidth, number of files shared) in unstructured peer-to-p...
Daniel Stutzbach, Reza Rejaie, Nick G. Duffield, S...