Finding reliable partners to interact with in open environments is a challenging task for
software agents, and trust and reputation mechanisms are used to handle this issue. From …

Social networks have recently been widely explored in many fields; these networks are
composed of a set of autonomous social actors and the interaction relations among them …

In recent years, significant attention has been paid to diffusion in social networks (SNs),
which is, factually, the collective behavior of a set of autonomous social actors for interacting …

Cloud computing and Internet of Things have promoted a new logistics service mode, ie, the
cloud logistics mode. This work studies the resource virtualization and service encapsulation …

Understanding the dynamics behind group formation and evolution in social networks is
considered an instrumental milestone to better describe how individuals gather and form …

Mobile agents (MAs) are being widely used in distributed applications development. The
motivation behind the interest in MAs is derived from the various advantages they offer, such …

Smart cities are built on top of heterogeneous IoT infrastructures, that can be viewed as
communities of software agents (the intelligent objects) that interact with each other to …

An important issue in Online Social Networks consists of the capability to generate useful
recommendations for users, as peers to contact in order to establish friendships and …

On-demand computing environments, like Cloud/Grid systems, consist of nodes that
individually manage local resources intended to be served to clients. When a client needs …

Email remains one of the key media used by cybercriminals for distributing malware. Based
on a large data set consisting of antivirus telemetry reports, we conduct the first …