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 trust ...
Milgram’s experiment (1967) demonstrated that there are short chains of acquaintances between individuals, and that these chains can be discovered in a greedy manner. Kleinberg ...
This paper examines new forms of collaboration between producers and consumers that are emerging in the digital entertainment space. Taking the case of the video-game industry, we...
Structured P2P networks are vulnerable to the sybil attack. In this attack, a misbehaving person generates a huge number of node identifiers and possibly chooses some of them in ...
Abstract. In Distributed Problem-solving (DPS) systems a group of purposefully designed computational agents interact and co-ordinate their activities so as to jointly achieve a gl...