This paper formalizes the semantics of trust and studies the transitivity of trust. On the Web, people and software agents have to interact with "strangers". This makes ...
Existing e-commerce applications on the web provide the users a relatively simple, browser-based interface to access available products. Customers are not provided with the same s...
Xiaojun Shen, T. Radakrishnan, Nicolas D. Georgana...
Online virtual worlds such as Second Life provide a rich medium for unstructured human interaction in a shared simulated 3D environment. However, many human interactions take place...
We present a novel application of structured classification: identifying function entry points (FEPs, the starting byte of each function) in program binaries. Such identification ...
Nathan E. Rosenblum, Xiaojin Zhu, Barton P. Miller...
This paper synthesizes two trends in the engineering of agent-based systems. One, modern agent-oriented methodologies deal with the key aspects of software development including re...