We will examine in this paper three crucial aspects of trust dynamics: a) How A’s trusting B and relying on it in situation can actually (objectively) influence B’s trustworth...
Fred Brooks’ retelling of the biblical story of the Tower of Babel offers many insights into what makes building software difficult. The difficulty, according to common interp...
A mobile agent is regarded as an attractive technology when developing distributed applications in mobile and ubiquitous computing environments. In this paper, we present ODDUGI, a...
Markov Random Fields (MRFs) are proposed as viable stochastic models for the spatial distribution of gray level intensities for images of human faces. These models are trained usi...
In a recent work, we have shown that it is not possible to dependably build any type of distributed f fault or intrusiontolerant system under the asynchronous model. This result f...
Paulo Sousa, Nuno Ferreira Neves, Paulo Verí...