Over the Internet today, computing and communications environments are significantly more
complex and chaotic than classical distributed systems, lacking any centralized organization …

Distributed computer architectures labeled" peer-to-peer" are designed for the sharing of
computer resources (content, storage, CPU cycles) by direct exchange, rather than requiring …

Problems of cooperation--in which agents seek ways to jointly improve their welfare--are
ubiquitous and important. They can be found at scales ranging from our daily routines--such …

In our increasingly interconnected world, the need for reputation is becoming more important
as larger numbers of people and services interact online. Reputation is a tool to facilitate …

Reputation systems provide mechanisms to produce a metric encapsulating reputation for a
given domain for each identity within the system. These systems seek to generate an …

The field of peer-to-peer reputation systems has exploded in the last few years. Our goal is
to organize existing ideas and work to facilitate system design. We present a taxonomy of …

Trust management is one of the most challenging issues in the emerging cloud computing
area. Over the past few years, many studies have proposed different techniques to address …

Internet of things (IoT) is a contemporary technology, which links a tremendous number of
devices with each other to ease the life via many useful services such as information …

Ad hoc networks rely on the cooperation of the nodes participating in the network to forward
packets for each other. A node may decide not to cooperate to save its resources while still …

Trust management is one of the most challenging issues for the adoption and growth of
cloud computing. The highly dynamic, distributed, and non-transparent nature of cloud …