This paper analyses some specific issues about the auditing of electronic auction systems. Communication within the Internet online auction systems generally takes place without users being in physical contact or knowing anything about each other. Therefore, they have to rely upon that...

This paper analyses some specific issues about the auditing of electronic auction systems. Communication within the Internet online auction systems generally takes place without users being in physical contact or knowing anything about each other. Therefore, they have to rely upon that...

Reputation systems evolve as a mechanism to build trust in virtual communities. In this paper we evaluate different metrics for computing reputation in multi-agent systems. We present a formal model for describing metrics in reputation systems and show how different well-known global reputation...

Content distribution is the primaryfunction of the Internet today.Technologies like multicast andpeer-to-peer networks hold the potentialto serve content to large populations ina scalable manner. While multicastprovides an efficient transportmechanism for one-to-many andmany-to-many delivery of...