Abstract. The emergence of complex network structures of relationships between autonomous agents occurs in a wide range of distributed systems. Many researchers have proposed model...
Micro-task platforms provide massively parallel, ondemand labor. However, it can be difficult to reliably achieve high-quality work because online workers may behave irresponsibly...
Steven Dow, Anand Pramod Kulkarni, Scott R. Klemme...
Self-protecting systems require the ability to instantaneously detect malicious activity at run-time and prevent execution. We argue that it is impossible to perfectly self-protec...
Ashvin Goel, Wu-chang Feng, Wu-chi Feng, David Mai...
We propose a new approach to ensure privacy in location based services, without requiring any support from a"trusted" entity. We observe that users of location based ser...
Web search engines discover indexable documents by recursively ‘crawling’ from a seed URL. Their rankings take into account link popularity. While this works well, it introduc...
Tom Rowlands, David Hawking, Ramesh Sankaranarayan...