In many distributed applications, a party who wishes to make a transaction requires that it has a certain level of trust in the other party. It is frequently the case that the part...
Decentralized Peer to Peer (P2P) networks offer both opportunities and threats. Its open and decentralized nature makes it extremely susceptible to malicious users spreading harmf...
The incorporation of a trust network among the users of a recommender system (RS) proves beneficial to the quality and amount of recommendations. Involving also distrust can offe...
In this paper, we present a framework for achieving anonymity and trust, two seemingly contradictory properties, in distributed systems. Our approach builds on webs of trust, a we...
Michael Backes, Stefan Lorenz, Matteo Maffei, Kim ...
We present an architecture of a trust framework that can be utilized to intelligently tradeoff between security and performance in a SAN file system. The primary idea is to diffe...
Aameek Singh, Sandeep Gopisetty, Linda Duyanovich,...