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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"AS reputation"”.
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Understanding and defending against internet infrastructures supporting cybecrime operations
… For example, a rogue online enterprise has to have multiple technical and business components in place, to provide the necessary infrastructure to keep the business available. Often, cybercriminals in their effort to protect and maintain their valuable network resources (infrastructures), …
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Building Corporate Reputation: A Rhetorical Analysis of Press Releases from Fortune's 2010 Most and Least Admired Companies
Reputation is a concept based on perceptions--perception itself being a term reliant on subjectivity. What is more intriguing is that many companies have found it difficult to admit that "intangible assets" such as reputation may have value (Fombrun, 1996). However, such intangible assets "create …
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Risk, Reputation, and Interdependence in the Market for Initial Public Offerings: Embedded Networks and the Construction of Organization Value
… organizational theorists have become increasingly interested in the study of markets and have provided insights regarding how distinctly social phenomena such as reputation and embedded networks of relationships among the transacting parties affect market behaviors and outcomes. These …
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Achieving Robustness and Generalization in MARL for Sequential Social Dilemmas through Bilinear Value Networks
… social dilemma (SSD) games. Recent literature has demonstrated that reward shaping can not only be used to enable MARL agents to discover diverse, human-interpretable strategies with emergent qualities, but also help alleviate the issue in conventional actor-critic methods that tend to converge …
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Systematic Measurement of Centralized Online Reputation Systems
Background: Centralized online reputation systems, which collect users' opinions on products, transactions and events as reputation information then aggregate and publish it, have been widely adopted by Internet companies. These systems can help users build trust, reduce information asymmetry and …
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The law of defamation - a comparison between the South African, the Canadian and the German legal systems
… defamation aims at the protection of a person's reputation." This definition was found in the Canadian, the South African as well as in the German law. However, the question that arises is whether the law of defamation only protects the reputation and the good name of a person. Defamation can …
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‘To Restore Peace and Tranquility to the Neighborhood’: Violence, Legal Culture and Community in New York City, 1799-1827
… what historians call “belonging.” It uses legal cases and crime publications to analyze contradictory visions of the public good within the context of key political and social changes in the city, state, and nation. The dissertation moves from the operations of violence on the ground to the …
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A layered security approach for cooperation enforcement in MANETs
… Cooperation enforcement schemes, such as reputation and trust based schemes have been proposed to counteract the issue of selfishness. The sole purpose of these schemes is to ensure selfish nodes bear the consequences of their bad actions. However, malicious nodes can exploit mobility …
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Water development programs in India
In the past decades, development cooperation (DC) led by conventional bi- and multilateral donors has been joined by a large number of small, private or public-private donors. This pluralism of actors raises questions as to whether or not these new donors are able to implement projects more or less …