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

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

To improve mobile users' quality-of-experience (QoE) in the mobile cyber-physical system
(MCPS), caching layered-coding contents on edge nodes that are close to mobile users has …

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 …

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 …

Trustworthiness in a vehicular network plays a vital role in facilitating data sharing among
vehicles to achieve better driving safety and convenience. Without trustworthiness …

Influence maximization is an important issue in social network analysis domain which
concerns finding the most influential nodes. Determining the influential nodes is made with …

Recommendation systems have become ubiquitous in online shopping in recent decades
due to their power in reducing excessive choices of customers and industries. Recent …

Assessing the trust between users in a trust social network (TSN) isa critical issue in many
applications, eg, film recommendation, spam detection, and online lending. Despite of …

The explosive growth of multimedia contents (MCs) in today's mobile social networks has
pushed edge computing to face severe security and online big data-processing problems …