A model of reputation is presented in which agents share and aggregate their opinions, and observe the way in which their opinions effect the opinions of others. A method is proposed that supports the deliberative process ...

Trust and Reputation are vital components for trusted e-business. In this paper, we propose a definition of trust relationship. Additionally we discuss in depth about the concept of trust relationship. A definition for ...

The EXtensible Markup Language (XML) has emerged as the dominant standard in describing and exchanging data among heterogeneous data sources. The increasing presence of large volumes of data appearing in enterprise ...

Numerous studies have shown that a software projectpsilas cost, schedule and defect density escalate as the rate of requirements change increases. Yet none of these studies have explored the effects of not making requirements ...

New information and communications technologies are transforming scholarly communication. Presents a humanities and social sciences researcher's perspective on these changes. Argues that researchers and research intermediaries ...

This paper reflects on the relationship between who one designs for and what one designs in the unstructured space of designing for political change; in particular, for supporting "International Development" with ICT. We ...

Human Factors, the so-called Soft Issues, play a vital role in highlighting the difference between success and failure for any project where people are involved, resistance to change, both at a personal and organizational ...

In this paper we report on a qualitative study aiming to support online and asynchronous collaboration between stakeholders of the film scoring industry. We first describe the low-fidelity prototype we designed to facilitate ...

The Differentiated services architecture (diffserv) proposed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) [1] provides service differentiation in the Internet in an efficient and scalable manner. The central idea of ...