Trust is a necessary concept to realize the Semantic Web. But how can we build a “Web of Trust”? We first argue that a small “Web of Trust” for each community is very esse...
The richness of today’s electronic communications mirrors physical world: activities such as shopping, business and scientific collaboration are conducted online. Current intera...
— Slander attacks represent a significant danger to distributed reputation systems. Malicious nodes may collude to lie about the reputation of a particular neighbor and cause se...
Pedro B. Velloso, Rafael P. Laufer, Otto Carlos Mu...
Can we trust without any reliable truth information? Most trust architectures work in a similar way: a trustor makes some observations, rates the trustee, and makes recommendations...
Abstract. The open and dynamic nature of modern distributed systems and pervasive environments presents significant challenges to security management. One solution may be trust ma...