The emerging science of simulation enables us to explore the dynamics of large and complex systems even if a formal representation and analysis of the system is intractable and a ...
The need for efficient decentralized recommender systems has been appreciated for some time, both for the intrinsic advantages of decentralization and the necessity of integrating...
Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Vincent Leroy, Afshin Moin, ...
This paper describes the scheduling framework for a new operating system called “Quest”. The three main goals of Quest are to ensure safety, predictability and efficiency of ...
This paper presents a hierarchy of privacy notions that covers multiple anonymity and unlinkability variants. The underlying definitions, which are based on the idea of indistingu...
In this paper, we address an issue of design in online rating systems: how many items should be elicited from the ratings provider. Recommender and reputation systems have traditi...