Developing means of secure and trustful communications for Vehicular Social Networks
(VSN) is essential to enable active information sharing among vehicles. Reputation-based …

The proliferation of smart objects and their connectivity have contributed to the realization of
the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm, offering a plethora of applications and services in …

Top-k shortest path routing problem is an extension of finding the shortest path in a given
network. Shortest path is one of the most essential measures as it reveals the relations …

Reputation systems concern soft security dynamics in diverse areas. Trust dynamics in a
reputation system should be stable and adaptable at the same time to serve the purpose …

In digital games there is an emphasis on the idea of quest completion; by completing a quest
the character wins resources from the giver of the quest, they also will gain a reputation …

Recommender system is one of the most important components for many companies and
social networks such as Facebook and YouTube. A recommendation system consists of …

This thesis focuses on a quantification of reputation and presents models which compute
reputation within networked environments. Reputation manifests past behaviors of users …

As the connectivity of vehicles increases rapidly, more vehicles have the capability to
communicate with each other. Because Vehicular Ad-hoc NETworks (VANETs) have the …

Recommender system is one of the most important component for many companies and
social networks such as Facebook and YouTube. A recommendation system consists of …