Recommender systems base their operation on past user ratings over a collection of items, for instance, books, CDs, etc. Collaborative filtering (CF) is a successful recommendatio...
Abstract. Software systems evolve over time. From a component-based software engineering perspective, this means that either the components of the system need to change, or, if com...
Many distributed applications can be understood in terms of components interacting in an open environment such as the Internet. Open environments are subject to change in unpredic...
Managing trust is a key issue for a wide acceptance of P2P computing, particularly in critical areas such as e-commerce. Reputation-based trust management has been identified in t...
The idea of containment sets (csets) is due to Walster and Hansen, and the theory is mainly due to the first author. Now that floating point computation with infinities is widely a...