We present an authentication scheme and new protocol for domain-based scenarios with inter-domain authentication. Our protocol is primarily intended for domain-structured Peer-to-Peer systems but is applicable for any domain scenario where clients from different domains wish to authenticate to each other. To this end, we make use of Trusted Third Parties in the form of Domain Authentication Ser...

Peer-to-peer (P2P) systems are nowadays widely used to exchange files, and it is acknowledged that they host much paedophile activity. However, current knowledge of this specific activity remains very limited, and almost no tool exist for user protection. Likewise, tools and knowledge for policy making and law enforcement are far from sufficient. The goal of the Measurement and Analysis of P2P ...

The paper starts with a brief discussion of the traditional peer review (TPR) system of research evaluation, its role, and the criticisms levelled at it. An analysis of specific problems in economics leads to a full discussion of the Open Peer Review (OPR) system developed by the World Economics Association (WEA) and the principles behind it. The system is open in the following two respects: (a...

Abstract Following on from a previous paper advocating changes in the editorial processes of peer-reviewed journals, present espouses conduct multiple local victimisation surveys as an affordable route to pan-European crime science. Local have impact which national lack, and meta-analysis survey results enable more general conclusions. The Latvian reported chapter revealed wide inequality at in...

Peer-to-peer are popular environments for exchanging services. A reputation mechanism is a proper means of discovering low-performing peers that fail to provide their services. In this paper, we present an in-depth and innovative study of how reputation can be exploited so that the right incentives for high performance are provided to peers. Such incentives do not arise if peers exploit reputat...

Due to the ever increasing number of different digital media types that we use in our daily work, it is no longer sufficient to manage them in an isolated way but desirable to define associations across the media boundaries. While cross-media information systems enable associations between digital and physical information, there is often a lack of support for flexible authoring and sharing of t...

Social reorientation from parents to same-age peers is normative in adolescence, but the neural correlates of youths' socioemotional processing of parents and peers have not been explored. In the current study, 22 adolescents (average age 16.98) underwent neuroimaging (functional magnetic resonance imaging) while viewing and rating emotions shown in brief video clips featuring themselves, their...

BACKGROUND To enhance the non-technical skills (NTS) assessment literature by developing a reliable and valid peer and self-assessment tool for NTS in a simulated ward setting to include emotional reactions: the Temporal Rating of Emergency Non-Technical skills (TRENT) Index. The paper aims to document (1) the psychometric properties of the TRENT index (e.g., reliability, idiosyncrasy biases) a...