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The Internet of Things is becoming a critical subject nowadays and along with an increasing adoption of ubiquitous computing devices security becomes an issue which must be approached in different application contexts. One notion that gains traction along with the IoT (Internet of Things) paradigm is the social context of embedded devices. This paper proposes a participatory verification security...
In C2C e-commerce environment it is possible and indeed quite common to deal with unknown sellers, whose reliability are unknown. Reputation system is a popular technique currently used for providing a global quality score of sellers to consumers. However, such global information is far enough for clients to choose the most qualified products. In the real word, we always ask our trusted friends for...
Interactions between individuals are inherently dependent upon trust, no matter if they occur in the real world or in cyber communities. Over the past years, proposals have been made to model trust relations computationally, either to assist users or for modeling purposes in multi-agent systems. These models rely implicitly on the social networks established by participating entities (be they autonomous...
The network value model for on-line communities provides a connection between information networks and social networks. As a result, the network value can be used as the parameter for evaluating the technologies which are needed in order to implement the social network over the information network. In this paper, the network value model given by Dr. Reed is modified by constraint factors resulting...
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