Our society is increasingly relying on digitalized, aggregated opinions of individuals to make decisions (e.g., product recommendation based on collective ratings). One key requirement of harnessing this "wisdom of crowd" is the independency of individuals' opinions; yet, in real settings, collective opinions are rarely simple aggregations of independent minds. Recent experimental studies docum...

There are several problems associated with the current ways that certificates are published and revoked. This paper discusses these problems, and then proposes a solution based on the use of WebDAV, an enhancement to the HTTP protocol. The proposed solution provides instant certificate revocation, minimizes the processing costs of the certificate issuer and relying party, and eases the administ...

Thus, MacNealy’s findings mean that the wisdom of technical communicators captured in the STC annual conference Proceedings was not clearly developed in any systematic way. In brief, her analysis suggests that technical communicators rely primarily on anecdotes and intuition to answer workplace questions. Reliance on such unsystematic approaches is costly: technical communicators are continuall...

Treatment decisions related to disease prevention are often based on two conventional and related assumptions. First, an intervention-induced change in a surrogate marker (such as high-density lipoprotein [HDL]-cholesterol) in the desired direction translates into health benefits (such as reduction in coronary events). Second, it is unimportant which interventions are used to alter surrogate ma...

Storage systems are designed and optimized relying on wisdom derived from analysis studies of file-system and block-level workloads. However, while SSDs are becoming a dominant building block in many storage systems, their design continues to build on knowledge derived from analysis targeted at hard disk optimization. Though still valuable, it does not cover important aspects relevant for SSD p...

We present architecture for e-business applications that receive requests from a party over the Net, to allow the applications to make decisions relying on the credentials of the requesting party. Relying party applications will be provided with uniform interface to the credentials of the requesting party. This will allow use of simple, widely available credentials as well as more advanced cred...