Whenever rational agents form coalitions to execute tasks, doing so via a decentralized negotiation process—while more robust and democratic—may lead to a loss of efficiency ...
Georgios Chalkiadakis, Edith Elkind, Maria Polukar...
Since the last in-depth studies of measured TCP traffic some 68 years ago, the Internet has experienced significant changes, including the rapid deployment of backbone links wit...
Intended for network-wide dissemination of commands, configurations and code binaries, flooding has been investigated extensively in wireless networks. However, little work has ...
We present an incentive-based architecture for providing recommendations in a social network. We maintain a distinct reputation system for each individual and we rely on users to ...
Rajat Bhattacharjee, Ashish Goel, Konstantinos Kol...
Social network systems, like last.fm, play a significant role in Web 2.0, containing large amounts of multimedia-enriched data that are enhanced both by explicit user-provided an...
Ioannis Konstas, Vassilios Stathopoulos, Joemon M....