Trust and reputation are central to effective interactions in open multi-agent systems (MAS)
in which agents, that are owned by a variety of stakeholders, continuously enter and leave …

Trust is an important tool in human life, as it enables people to cope with the uncertainty
caused by the free will of others. Uncertainty and uncontrollability are also issues in …

Web Services power through explicit representations of Web resources underlying
semantics and the development of an intelligent Web infrastructure that can fully exploit …

The paramount complexity of enterprise in formation leads to hard-to-deal security
management issues and system configurations. We present a security management …

Several research groups have grappled with the problem of characterizing and developing
practical approaches for implementing adjustable autonomy and mixed-initiative interaction …

In recent years we have seen significant advances in the technology used to both publish
and consume structured data using the existing web infrastructure, commonly referred to as …

The rise in popularity of Internet of Things (IoT) devices has opened doors for privacy and
security breaches in Cyber-Physical systems like smart homes, smart vehicles, and smart …

Remote prediction of gassy marine sediment properties is important for geohazard
assessment. Gas bubble resonance theory suggests that gassy sediments exhibit acoustic …

Because ever more powerful intelligent agents will interact with people in increasingly
sophisticated and important ways, greater attention must be given to the technical and social …

Privacy policies are a widely used way of expressing the data handling by service providers.
However, the legalese used in these documents hinders many users in understanding the …