Purpose – This paper aims to address some security issues in open systems such as service-oriented applications and grid computing. It proposes a security framework for these sy...
An ad-hoc network of wireless nodes is a temporarily formed network, created, operated and managed by the nodes themselves. It is also often termed an infrastructure-less, self-or...
Recommender Systems allow people to find the resources they need by making use of the experiences and opinions of their nearest neighbours. Costly annotations by experts are replac...
—Handheld devices have become sufficiently powerful that it is easy to create, disseminate, and access digital content (e.g., photos, videos) using them. The volume of such cont...
Trust learning is a crucial aspect of information exchange, negotiation, and any other kind of social interaction among autonomous agents in open systems. But most current probabil...