Abstract. The today's applications usually form a system of sub-applications, each being responsible for a particular functionality. Hence, the design and maintenance of such ...
We propose a mechanism for providing the incentives for reporting truthful feedback in a peer-to-peer system for exchanging services. This mechanism is to complement reputation me...
Very large systems have an architecture that is designed to allow them to evolve through a long life. Such systems are developed by teams of architects. One of the first things t...
The rise of GPS and broadband-speed wireless devices has led to tremendous excitement about a range of applications broadly characterized as "location based services". Cu...
- Recently, pervasive and ubiquitous computing evolved tremendously and has become an integral part of many fields. This is widely attributed to their efficiency in integrating wit...