Abstract. We are developing a decentralized approach to trust based on referral systems, where agents adaptively give referrals to one another to find other trustworthy agents. In...
We present a simple model of distributed multi-agent multi-issued contract negotiation for open systems where interactions are competitive and information is private and not shared...
Peyman Faratin, Mark Klein, Hiroki Sayama, Yaneer ...
We develop an approach in which we model communication protocols via commitment machines. Commitment machines supply a content to protocol states and actions in terms of the social...
Abstract. We present attacks on the anonymity and pseudonymity provided by a “lonely hearts” dating service and by the HushMail encrypted email system. We move on to discuss so...
Open-source software, usually created by volunteer programmers dispersed worldwide, now competes with that developed by software firms. This achievement is particularly impressive...