Located at the heart of Ankara, Turkey’s national capital, Middle East Technical University (METU) is among largest public universities in Turkey, with an international reputation education and research excellence. Its history, however, offers a compelling story concerning ironies history urgency dissident memory to inform contemporary social justice struggles across globe. This rooted politica...

The Internet has enabled e-commerce and e-auctions for online commodity exchanges among strangers worldwide. Many companies now offer eauction platforms to facilitate such transactions, including eBay, Amazon, uBid, and Yahoo. A growing number of online commercial transactions occur in a peerto-peer (P2P) environment, which does not require a central authority to mediate such exchanges. Rather,...

Through the continued progress and advances of networking technology and also through efforts like Industry 4.0, SmartGrid, SmartCities, systems, that have been self-sustaining for the most part are now forming networked Cyber-physical Systems (CPS). Networking does not only have undoubtely benefits but also increase the often overlooked attack surface of these systems. A basic problem in infor...

The evidence base continues to confirm the leveraging effect of reputation in higher education as an important strategic resource influencing a university’s visibility, attractiveness, credibility, impact, and competitive position nationally internationally. From their expressed interest relative national continental rankings, Ethiopian universities seem have started sensing relevance reputatio...

One of the functions of reputations in societies is to enable coordination, and some of the most familiar instances of this occur when reputations are based on past actions. For example, a history of aggressive play is often interpreted as predicting more aggressive play in the future. This permits a pair of individuals with unequal reputations for aggressiveness to avoid wasteful conßict that ...

This study empirically evaluates the certification and value-added roles of reputable venture capitalists (VCs). Using a novel sample of entrepreneurial start-ups with multiple financing offers, I analyze financing offers made by competing VCs at the first professional round of start-up funding, holding characteristics of the start-up fixed. Offers made by VCs with a high reputation are three t...

EU-IST Network of Excellence (NoE) IST-2004-507482 KWEB Deliverable D2.4.9 (WP2.4) This report summarizes the state-of-the-art regarding reputation mechanisms and outlines the reputation model that will be implemented as a prototype in D2.4.6.2. A second version of this document, including a detailed specification of the reputation model, is due in December 2005. Keyword list: Reputation Mechan...

of a thesis at the University of Miami. Giuditta Pasta was an outstanding attrice cantante (" singing actress ") in early nineteenth-century Italy. Vincenzo Bellini composed Norma for her in 1831, which became one of his most significant works and established Pasta's position and reputation within Europe.

The most widely used reputation models assume uniform users’ preference structure. In this paper a new reputation management model is presented. It is focused on aggregation of community wide reputation in situation when agents do not share the same preference structure. The reputation is interpreted as vectors of attributes that represent several reputation evaluation criteria. Outcomes of the...