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 …

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 …

The purpose of a reputation system is to hold the users of a distributed application
accountable for their behavior. The reputation of a user is computed as an aggregate of the …

In recent years, the advancement in modern technologies has not only resulted in an
explosion of huge data sets being captured and recorded in different fields, but also given …

A growing share of illicit drug distribution takes place using cryptomarkets that use
encryption and anonymization technologies. The risks of law enforcement intervention and …

Abstract Social IoT (or SIoT) is an alternate architectural pattern for IoT, which involves IoT
devices with social behavioural attributes. A SIoT-based service network makes use of …

Abstract A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is an austere menace to network
security. Nowadays in a technological era, DDoS attacks pose a severe threat to widely …

One of the biggest challenges facing trust and reputation systems (TRSs) is evaluating their
ability to withstand various attacks, as these systems are vulnerable to multiple types of …

Blockchains have become the catalyst for a growing movement to create a more
decentralized Internet. A fundamental operation of applications in a decentralized Internet is …

Decentralized reputation schemes present a promising area of experimentation in
blockchain applications. These solutions aim to overcome the shortcomings of simple …