Web-based social networks have become popular as a medium for disseminating
information and connecting like-minded people. The public accessibility of such networks …

Online Social Networks (OSNs) are becoming a popular method of meeting people and
keeping in touch with friends. OSNs resort to trust evaluation models and algorithms to …

Trust is an important yet complex and little understood aspect of the dyadic relationship
between two entities. Trust plays an important role in the formation of coalitions in social …

Trust can help participants in online social communities to make decisions; however, it is a
challenge for systems to map trust into computational models because of its subjective …

Internet of Things combined with social networks, has emerged as an interesting research
area which is referred to as Social Internet of Things (SIoT). Objects in SIoT interact with …

This paper describes a Goal Centric approach for effectively maintaining critical system
qualities such as security, performance, and usability throughout the lifetime of a software …

Online Social networks have provided the infrastructure for a number of emerging
applications in recent years, eg, for the recommendation of service providers or the …

Trust is a crucial basis for interactions among parties in large, open systems. Yet, the scale
and dynamism of such systems make it infeasible for each party to have a direct basis for …

The success of the Web is based largely on its open, decentralized nature; at the same time,
that allows for a wide range of perspectives and intentions. Trust is required to foster …

In this paper, we consider the problem of “evil twin” attacks in wireless local area networks
(WLANs). An evil twin is essentially a phishing (rogue) Wi-Fi access point (AP) that looks like …