Semantic Web endeavors have mainly focused on issues pertaining to knowledge representation and ontology design. However, besides understanding information metadata stated by subj...
This paper discusses why trust is an essential aspect for business-driven IT management, as well as how it impacts management of web services and their compositions. We summarize t...
Sensor nodes are often used to collect data from locations inaccessible or hazardous for humans. As they are not under normal supervision, these nodes are particularly susceptible...
Trust management is a critical component in P2P file sharing systems due to the free riding and security problem. In this paper, we propose a lightweight reputation management sys...
Lintao Liu, Shu Zhang, Kyung Dong Ryu, Partha Dasg...
In this paper we develop a notion of “objective trust” for Software Agents, that is trust of, or between, Agents based on actual experiences between those Agents. Experiential ...