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Mechanisms for Making Crowds Truthful

Boi Faltings, Radu Jurca

We consider schemes for obtaining truthful reports on a common but hidden signal from large groups of rational, self-interested agents. One example are online feedback mechanisms, where users provide observations about the quality of a product or service s ...

AI Access Foundation2009

Reputation-Based Content Dissemination for User Generated Wireless Podcasting

Jean-Yves Le Boudec

User-generated podcasting service over human-centric opportunistic network can facilitate user-generated content sharing while humans are on the move beyond the coverage of infrastructure networks. We focus on the aspects of designing efficient forwarding ...

2009

Specifying Services for ITIL Service Management

François Maréchal, Gil Regev, Alain Wegmann

The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is a collection of best practices for the management of IT services. ITIL helps organizations to become aware of the business value their IT services provide to internal and external stakeholders. Un ...

2008

An Enhanced Service Provider Communication Interface with Client Priorization

Milos Stanisavljevic, Slobodan Lukovic

With the increased dynamics of modern life, the efficiency and reliability of everyday services is emerging to be a fundamental concern. On the other hand, modern telecommunication technologies, like wireless Internet access, are penetrating all segments o ...

IEEE/WFM2008

A Service Construct to Support Iterative Development

Development of composed services requires a continues adaptation of the composed service to the changing environment of offered services. Services may no longer be available or may change performance characteristics, price, or quality of service criteria a ...

2007

The Weight-Watcher Service and its Lightweight Implementation

Rachid Guerraoui, Maxime Monod, Benoît Garbinato, Jesper Honig Spring, Alexei Kounine

This paper presents the Weight-Watcher service. This service aims at providing resource consumption measurements and estimations for software executing on resource constrained devices. By using the Weight-Watcher, software components can continuously adapt ...

2007

Analysis of finite capacity queueing networks

Michel Bierlaire, Carolina Osorio Pizano

Queueing network models have been widely applied as tools allowing the estimation of performance measures and the behavioural description of systems such as communication, production and software architecture networks. Queueing network models with finite c ...

2007

Probabilistic Estimation of Peers’ Quality and Behaviors for Subjective Trust Evaluation

Karl Aberer

The management of trust and quality in decentralized systems has been recognized as a key research area over recent years. In this paper, we propose a probabilistic computational approach to enable a peer in the system to model and estimate the quality and ...

2006

Reputation-based Wi-Fi Deployment

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Naouel Ben Salem

Wi-Fi networks have a very strong potential: They are easy to deploy, they use unlicensed frequencies and they provide Internet connectivity that is several times faster than by cable modem. However, two major problems still need to be solved: the lack of ...

2005

Architectural Issues of JMS Compliant Group Communication

Nils Richard Ekwall, Arnas Kupsys

Group communication provides one-to-many communication primitives that simplify the development of highly available services. Despite advances in research and numerous prototypes, group communication stays confined to small niches. To facilitate the accept ...

2005