Abstract. Online reputation mechanisms need honest feedback to function effectively. Self interested agents report the truth only when explicit rewards offset the cost of reporting...
Conventionally, mobile robots are controlled through an action selection mechanism (ASM) that chooses among multiple proposed actions. This choice can be made in a variety of ways...
Brian P. Gerkey, Maja J. Mataric, Gaurav S. Sukhat...
—Anonymous communication protocols must achieve two seemingly contradictory goals: privacy (informally, they must guarantee the anonymity of the parties that send/receive informa...
The increasing popularity of Web Services (WS) has exemplified the need for scalable and robust discovery mechanisms. Although decentralized solutions for discovering WS promise ...
George Anadiotis, Spyros Kotoulas, Holger Lausen, ...
Providing robust decision support for software engineering (SE) requires the collection of data across multiple contexts so that one can begin to elicit the context variables that...
Daniela Cruzes, Victor R. Basili, Forrest Shull, M...