The open feature of peer-to-peer systems invites the spread of the malfunctioning data. Additional reputation systems are constructed to guarantee the data authenticity. One chall...
Data outsourcing or database as a service is a new paradigm for data management in which a third party service provider hosts a database as a service. The service provides data man...
Ahmed Metwally, Amr El Abbadi, Divyakant Agrawal, ...
In a Cyclic Mobile Ad Hoc Network (CMANET) where nodes move cyclically, we formulate trust management problems and propose the cTrust scheme to handle trust establishment and aggre...
Online feedback-based rating systems are gaining popularity. Dealing with collaborative unfair ratings in such systems has been recognized as an important but difficult problem. T...
Yafei Yang, Yan Lindsay Sun, Steven Kay, Qing Yang
We propose a formal model of trust informed by the Global Computing scenario and focusing on the aspects of trust formation, evolution, and propagation. The model is based on a no...