Trust, the fundamental basis of ‘cooperation’ – one of the most important characteristics for the performance of pervasive ad hoc network-- is under serious threat with the ...
Abstract— Privacy and security are two important but seemingly contradict objectives in pervasive computing environments (PCEs). On the one hand, service providers want to authen...
This paper describes an agent-based artificial market system whose underlying interaction protocols provide advanced features. Using the system, actors (i.e., customers and mercha...
We present a framework for dening trading scenarios based on sh market auctions. In these scenarios, agents of arbitrary complexity can participate in electronic auctions under ...
We study the multicast stream authentication problem when the communication channel is under control of an opponent who can drop, reorder and inject data packets. In this work, we...