Security and privacy will play a pivotal role in the commercialization of Vehicular Ad-hoc
NETworks (VANETs). Traditionally, both cryptographic and non-cryptographic approaches …

Exploring and monitoring the underwater world using underwater sensors is drawing a lot of
attention these days. In this field cooperation between acoustic sensor nodes has been a …

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

In this paper, we investigate how dynamic properties of reputation can influence the quality
of users' ranking. Reputation systems should be based on rules that can guarantee high …

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 …

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 …

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

Mutation testing is an intuitive approach to test errors in software as well as to measure the
quality of test suites. Due to its prohibitively high computation cost for generating all mutants …