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Chapter and Conference Paper
Point-Level Label-Free Segmentation Framework for 3D Point Cloud Semantic Mining
3D point cloud data semantic mining plays a key role in 3D scene understanding. Although recent point cloud semantic mining methods have achieved great success, they require large amounts of expensive manual a...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
TAP: A Two-Level Trust and Personality-Aware Recommender System
Recommender systems (RSs) have been adopted in a variety set of web services to provide a list of items which a user may interact with in near future. Collaborative filtering (CF) is one of the most widely use...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Modelling Local and Global Dependencies for Next-Item Recommendations
Session-based recommender systems (SBRSs) aim at predicting the next item by modelling the complex dependencies within and across sessions. Most of the existing SBRSs make recommendations only based on local depe...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
N2TM: A New Node to Trust Matrix Method for Spam Worker Defense in Crowdsourcing Environments
To defend against spam workers in crowdsourcing environments, the existing solutions overlook the fact that a spam worker with guises can easily bypass the defense. To alleviate this problem, in this paper, we...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
SETTRUST: Social Exchange Theory Based Context-Aware Trust Prediction in Online Social Networks
Trust is context-dependent. In real-world scenarios, people trust each other only in certain contexts. However, this concept has not been seriously taken into account in most of the existing trust prediction a...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Social Context-Aware Trust Prediction: Methods for Identifying Fake News
Fake news, a type of yellow journalism or propaganda, consist of false or incorrect information and have the potential to spread very fast on online social networks. This false information is mainly distribute...
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Article
A Survey of Authentication Schemes in Telecare Medicine Information Systems
E-Healthcare is an emerging field that provides mobility to its users. The protected health information of the users are stored at a remote server (Telecare Medical Information System) and can be accessed by t...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Uncertain Assessment Compatible Incentive Mechanism for Eliciting Continual and Truthful Assessments of Cloud Services
The evaluation of dynamic performance of cloud services relies on continual assessments from cloud users, e.g., ordinary consumers and testing parties. In order to elicit continual and truthful assessments, an...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Evaluating Cloud Users’ Credibility of Providing Subjective Assessment or Objective Assessment for Cloud Services
This paper proposes a novel model for evaluating cloud users’ credibility of providing subjective assessment or objective assessment for cloud services. In contrast to prior studies, cloud users in our model a...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Towards Context Sensitive Defeasible Rules
Defeasible argumentation systems are used to model commonsense and defeasible reasoning. Current argumentation systems assume that an argument that appears to be justified also satisfies our expectation in rel...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Taking Levi Identity Seriously: A Plea for Iterated Belief Contraction
Most work on iterated belief change has focused on iterated belief revision, namely how to compute (K $^{\rm *...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Managing Theories of Trust in Agent Based Systems
A theory of trust for a given system is a set of rules that describes trust of agents in the system. In a certain logical framework, the theory is generally established based on the initial trust of agents in ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Temporalised Belief Logic for Specifying the Dynamics of Trust for Multi-agent Systems
Temporalisation is a methodology for combining logics whereby a given logic system can be enriched with temporal features to create a new logic system. TML (Typed Modal Logic) extends classical first-order log...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A User-Centred Consistency Model in Real-Time Collaborative Editing Systems
Consistency maintenance is an important issue in groupware systems. The existing consistency models are system-oriented and focus on objective and static aspects of consistency without sufficiently taking into...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Group-Based Time-Stam** Scheme for the Preservation of Group Intentions
Real-time negotiation support is an important issue in collaborative editing systems. The existing multi-versioning techniques provide support for negotiation by preserving individual users’ concurrent conflic...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Intention Preservation by Multi-versioning in Distributed Real-Time Group Editors
There are multi-versioning schemes that can preserve individual users’ concurrent conflicting intentions in a consistent way. However, they are proposed for intention preservation in collaborative editing envi...
