The exploitation of trust in virtual environments, on-line services, intelligent pervasive environments and many other scenarios still deserve researchers’ interest. In this work …
The participation to virtual contexts has been increased during the last decade. Trust is often used in such a scenario as a mechanism to establish reliable relationships. In …
Ordering nodes by rank is a benchmark used in several contexts,from recommendation-based trust networks to e-commerce,search engines and websites ranking. In these scenarios,the …
Virtual interaction with strangers often makes use of underlying trust networks. Usually, existing proposals address the evaluation of global (unique) trust for a given node within …
The massive use of web based social networks endorse trustworthiness to establish reliable relationships. Trust is often used to rank entities hence during the attachment process …
The need of trust is growing in several contexts as e-commerce, virtual communities, distributed on-line services and many others as an essential precautionary component for users …
The shifting of computation and storage towards distributed, embedded and mobile systems encompasses several advantages, as the increasing in performance, scalability, and …
Trust and reputation systems gained great attention in the last decades. Such systems aim at giving users a quantitative evaluation about the trustworthiness of other users. …
The increasing use of Internet in real world activities such as e-commerce, blogs, wikies and several others makes the question of trust a critical issue. However, everyone can …
Trust is a widespread mechanism to establish and conduct successful social collaborations, expecially in today’s Internet, where people perform more and more activities on-line, …