In a reputation-based trust management system an entity’s behaviour determines its reputation which in turn affects other entities interaction with it. We present a mathematical...
We present a formalism for provenance in distributed systems based on the -calculus. Its main feature is that all data products are annotated with metadata representing their prov...
Issam Souilah, Adrian Francalanza, Vladimiro Sasso...
We introduce mCP nets, an extension of the CP net formalism to model and handle the qualitative and conditional preferences of multiple agents. We give a number of different seman...
Francesca Rossi, Kristen Brent Venable, Toby Walsh
This paper introduces a study about managing the performance of virtual teams using intelligent agents. Through a review of previous research, the paper starts by contextually sit...
We take the position that large-scale distributed systems are better understood, at all levels, when locality is taken into account. When communication and mobility are clearly se...