Trust negotiation is a process that establishes mutual trust by the exchange of digital credentials and/or guiding policies among entities who may have no pre-existing knowledge a...
Weifeng Chen, L. Clarke, James F. Kurose, Donald F...
— One of the challenges facing the networking industry today is to increase the profitability of Internet services. This calls for economic mechanisms that can enable providers ...
We present a novel indexing schema that provides efficient nearest-neighbor queries in multimedia databases consisting of objects described by multiple feature vectors. The bene...
Cooperation among autonomous agents involves an inherent degree of uncertainty. Agents determine for themselves when to initiate cooperation or to assist others, when to rescind c...
The performance of an automatic fingerprint authentication system relies heavily on the quality of the captured fingerprint images. In this paper, two new quality indices for fi...