: Strangers in African Societies . William A. Shack, Elliot P. Skinner.

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Depending on the Kindness of Strangers? Trust Relationships in Ambient Societies

The vision of the ambient society relies on the constant exchange of personal information among multiple devices, individuals and organisations. The high number of microtrust decisions required in such a scenario calls for automated trust management. In this paper we discuss a set of contextual properties of transactions that ensure trust and trustworthy action in everyday situation and suggest...

Elliot Anshelevich

My research interests center in the design and analysis of algorithms, especially in large decentralized networks. My main focus has largely been on algorithmic game theory, and more specifically on networks involving strategic agents. In order to understand such networks, I also study diffusion processes in social networks, and more generally approximation algorithms. An increasing number of n...

Dr. Elliot Rapaport: a true legend.

William P . Hanage , Brian G . Spratt , Katherine

A central problem in understanding bacterial speciation is how clusters of closely related strains emerge and persist in the face of recombination. We use a neutral Fisher–Wright model in which genotypes, defined by the alleles at 140 house-keeping loci, change in each generation by mutation or recombination, and examine conditions in which an initially uniform population gives rise to resolved...