—The effectiveness of online feedback mechanisms for rating the performance of providers in electronic markets is vulnerable to the submission of dishonest ratings. In this paper...
Abstract— The use of many distributed, heterogeneous resources as a large collective platform offers great potential. A key issue for these grid platforms is middleware scalabili...
Although a significant amount of effort has been directed at discovering attacks against anonymity communication networks and developing countermeasures to those attacks, there i...
With the increased popularity of replica-based services in distributed systems such as the Grid, consistency control among replicas becomes more and more important. To this end, I...
Unstructured peer-to-peer infrastructure has been widely employed to support large-scale distributed applications. Many of these applications, such as locationbased services and m...