The concept of trust and/or trust management has received considerable attention in
engineering research communities as trust is perceived as the basis for decision making in …

Mobile CrowdSensing (MCS) is an emerging paradigm in the distributed acquisition of smart
city and Internet of Things (IoT) data. MCS requires large number of users to enable access …

The integration of social networking concepts into the Internet of things has led to the Social
Internet of Things (SIoT) paradigm, according to which objects are capable of establishing …

Trust and reputation systems represent a significant trend in decision support for Internet
mediated service provision. The basic idea is to let parties rate each other, for example after …

The development of subjective logic has been a journey, on which this book represents a
milestone. The original idea of subjective logic came to my mind in 1996, while I was a Ph …

Existing routing algorithms for Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs) assume that nodes are
willing to forward packets for others. In the real world, however, most people are socially …

Trust networks consist of transitive trust relationships between people, organisations and
software agents connected through a medium for communication and interaction. By …

In this paper, we present a model of a trust-based recommendation system on a social
network. The idea of the model is that agents use their social network to reach information …

Reputation mechanisms are essential for online transactions, where the parties have little
prior experience with one another. This is especially true when transactions result in offline …

There are currently very few practical methods for assessing the quality of resources or the
reliability of other entities in the online environment. This makes it difficult to make decisions …