Abstract. Trust-management systems address the authorization problem in distributed systems. They offer several advantages over other approaches, such as support for delegation and...
Hao Wang, Somesh Jha, Thomas W. Reps, Stefan Schwo...
Recent techniques show the benefits of attaching communitygenerated knowledge to artifacts in an information space and presenting it to subsequent readers. We argue that such know...
Sybil attacks have been shown to be unpreventable except under the protection of a vigilant central authority. We use an economic analysis to show quantitatively that some applicat...
Distributed applications that lack a central, trustworthy authority for control and validation are properly termed decentralized. Multiple, independent agencies, or "partners...
Girish Suryanarayana, Justin R. Erenkrantz, Scott ...
Decision analytic methods are now used frequently to help articulate and structure debate and deliberations among citizens and stakeholders in societal decisions. Methods vary, bu...