During the last few years there has been an increasing number of people-centric sensing projects, which combine location information with other sensors available on mobile devices,...
When involved in collaborative tasks, users often choose to use multi-synchronous applications in order to concurrently work in isolation. Hence, privacy of their changes is maint...
Cryptographic protocols are useful for trust engineering in distributed transactions. Transactions require specific degrees of confidentiality and agreement between the principal...
Joshua D. Guttman, Jonathan C. Herzog, John D. Ram...
Reputation mechanisms offer an efficient way of building the necessary level of trust in electronic markets. Feedback about an agent’s past behavior can be aggregated into a me...
We address the freerider problem on P2P networks. We first propose a specific participation metric, which we call a peer’s EigenTrust score. We show that EigenTrust scores accu...
Sepandar D. Kamvar, Mario T. Schlosser, Hector Gar...