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 trust ...
Characterizing mobility or contact patterns in a campus environment is of interest for a variety of reasons. Existing studies of these patterns can be classified into two basic a...
Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing is gaining more and more significance due to its widespread use currently and potential deployments in future applications. In this paper, we propose ...
Abstract Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) provide an efficient support for serving http and streaming media content while minimizing the network impact of content delivery as well...
This paper is on the construction of a fault-tolerant and responsive server subsystem in an application context where the subsystem is accessed through an asynchronous network by ...