In order to extract the full potential from Internet-wide content sharing and reuse, the underlying copyright issues must be taken into account. The novel requirements are not satisfied by traditional Digital Rights Management. Open licensing initiatives seem more appropriate, but they lack the required computerised support. Our proposal facilitates interoperation while providing a rich framewo...

This paper discusses the problem of lack of clear licensing and transparency of usage terms and conditions for research metadata. Making research data connected, discoverable and reusable are the key enablers of the new data revolution in research. We discuss how the lack of transparency hinders discovery of research data and make it disconnected from the publication and other trusted research ...

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The trend towards providing software as a service has required us to rethink the way software is licensed. There are different types of proprietary and open source licenses for software. However, the nature of web services differs significantly from traditional software and software components, which prevents the direct adoption of their respective licenses. As web services can be accessed and ...

We propose a formal model for reputation-based trust management. In contrast to credential-based trust management, in our framework an agent’s reputation serves as the basis for trust. For example, an access control policy may consider the agent’s reputation when deciding whether to offer him a license for accessing a protected resource. The underlying semantic model is an event semantics inspi...

This paper considers three alternative ways to sell heterogenous licenses via a firstprice format when there is single unit demand. It has been suggested that incorporating a first-price element may bolster competition in this case (Klemperer, 2002). In a controlled laboratory setting, we compare the performance of the simultaneous first-price auction, the sequential first-price auction and the...

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