Social trust assessment that characterizes a pairwise trustworthiness relationship can spur
diversified applications. Extensive efforts have been put in exploration, but mainly focusing …

Cybersecurity, as a crucial aspect of the information society, requires significant attention.
Fortunately, the concept of trust, originating from the field of sociology, has been under …

Since the term first coined in 1999 by Kevin Ashton, the Internet of Things (IoT) has gained
significant momentum as a technology to connect physical objects to the Internet and to …

In modern online social networks, each user is typically able to provide a value to indicate
how trustworthy their direct friends are. Inferring such a value of social trust between any pair …

Assessing trust in online social networks (OSNs) is critical for many applications such as
online marketing and network security. It is a challenging problem, however, due to the …

As an effective security mechanism, trust models have been proposed to estimate the
reliability of the individual nodes in Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks (UASNs) during …

Recommendation systems provide ease and convenience for users to address information
overload problems while interacting with online platforms such as social media and e …

Social Internet of Things (SIoT), a promising and emerging paradigm that injects the notion
of social networking into smart objects (ie, things), paving the way for the next generation of …

Trust relationship prediction has gained a lot of interest in online social networks as it allows
users to escape complex analysis in decision-making. However, most existing work fail to …

In the era of Internet of Things (IoT), millions of heterogeneous IoT devices generate an
explosion of data and services waiting to be discovered. The convergence of IoT with social …