Reputation and reciprocity are key mechanisms for cooperation in human societies, often
going hand in hand to favor prosocial behavior over selfish actions. Here we review recent …

Over the recent years, computational trust and reputation models have become an
invaluable method to improve computer-computer and human-computer interaction. As a …

Blockchain is a distributed accounting system. One of its key issues is how to ensure
agreement between distrustful nodes. As an important component of blockchain, consensus …

Abstract Practical Byzantine Fault-tolerant Algorithm (PBFT) is the most widely used
consensus algorithm in alliance chain, which has the advantages of fault tolerance and …

As Vehicular Ad hoc Network (VANET) features random topology and accommodates freely
connected nodes, it is important that the cooperation among the nodes exists. This paper …

The introduction of trust-based approaches in social scenarios modeled as multi-agent
systems (MAS) has been recognized as a valid solution to improve the effectiveness of these …

With the increases of P2P applications and their users, the attacks on P2P networks have
also increased significantly. To handle the problem, researchers have proposed many kinds …

Peer-to-peer (P2P) platforms are gaining increasing popularity due to their scalability,
robustness and self-organization. In P2P systems, peers interact directly with each other to …

In peer-to-peer service networks, autonomous agents gain utilities through getting services
from others. However, providing services is so costly that rational agents may prefer to defect …

In recent times, peer-to-peer (P2P) has evolved, where it leverages the capability to scale
compared to server-based networks. Consequently, P2P has appeared to be the future …