Abstract. We present a variant of the snapshot model [1] for insect visual homing. In this model a snapshot image is taken by an agent at the goal position. The disparity between c...
Abstract For an information-agent-based system to support virtual (Internet-supported) organisations, changes in environmental conditions often demand changes in organisational beh...
We analyze a mechanism that provides strong incentives for the submission of truthful feedback in virtual communities where services are exchanged on a peer-to-peer basis. Lying pe...
Abstract— Ensuring the security of computers is a nontrivial task, with many techniques used by malicious users to compromise these systems. In recent years a new threat has emer...
In this paper, we propose a probabilistic framework targeting three important issues in the computation of quality and trust in decentralized systems. Specifically, our approach a...