This research asks how an epidemic affects human behaviour. Probably the COVID-19
contagion is the most adverse global public health, economic, social, and technological …

As an efficient approach, the trust policy is implemented to defend against insider attacks in
complex networks. However, the imperfection of trust relationships directly hinders the effort …

Trust has played a pivotal role in the evolution of modern human societies, and it continues
to be an essential underpinning of our social interactions. It is therefore important that we …

Uncertainty distributions can help resolve the difficult problem of measuring subjective
uncertainty within a trust relationship. This paper studies trust propagation and trust network …

Pro-social exclusion and punishment are effective strategies in preventing free-riding.
Recent literature has demonstrated that when exclusion and punishment coexist, the former …

This paper proposes a blockchain based trust management method for agents in a multi-
agent system (MAS). In this work, three objectives are achieved: trust, cooperation and …

Most existing correlation filter-based tracking algorithms only use the linear additive features
or simple fusion features, which are unable to fully learn the appearance information of the …

With the emergence of Online Social Networks (OSNs) as an effective medium of information
dissemination, its abuse in spreading misinformation has become a great concern to its …

Recently, multi-agent systems (MASs) have received attention due to the consideration of
distributed optimization and control in blockchain (BC) based energy trading applications …

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought a brand-new challenge to the design and
management of the air transportation network (ATN). Many countries have partially or …