Agents are a useful abstraction frequently employed as a basic building block in modeling service, information and resource sharing in global environments. The connecting of reques...
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 ...
- In multiview video coding, disparity compensated prediction exploits the correlation among different views. A common approach is to use the conventional motion compensated predic...
Abstract—Hyracks is a new partitioned-parallel software platform designed to run data-intensive computations on large shared-nothing clusters of computers. Hyracks allows users t...
Vinayak R. Borkar, Michael J. Carey, Raman Grover,...
—We introduce a novel hardware intellectual property acquisition protocol, show how it can support the transfer of provably trustworthy modules between hardware IP producers and ...