Automated trust negotiation is an approach which establishes trust between strangers through the bilateral, iterative disclosure of digital credentials. Sensitive credentials are ...
In recent years, the gossip-based communication model in large-scale distributed systems has become a general paradigm with important applications which include information dissemi...
Current research activities in the area of trading digital products usually focus on specific legal or technical problems, neglecting the underlying business models and their impl...
Abstract. Under Social Tagging Systems, a typical Web 2.0 application, users label digital data sources by using freely chosen textual descriptions (tags). Mining tag information r...
Vassiliki A. Koutsonikola, Athena Vakali, Eirini G...
—In this paper we extend our previous work on soft probabilistic contracts for QoS management, from the particular case of “response time”, to general QoS parameters. Our stu...