An important problem in trust management area is to

evaluate the trust value among two nodes in a web of trust using

intermediate nodes. This is widely used when the source node has

no experience...

It is a common and useful task in a web of trust to evaluate the trust value between two nodes using intermediate nodes. This is widely used when the source node has no experience of direct interaction with the target node or the direct trust...

Trust is a concept taken from social sciences and is

considered as a soft security approach that is effective in

reducing risk. In this paper, for estimating the trust between

unknown nodes, a group-based trust propagation...

Recently the concept of confidence has received a remarkable attention in trust research

area. This paper introduces an integrated layer model of a confidence-aware trust management

system which can be useful in providing a global view...

Trust Management (TM) systems are frameworks for managing security in decentralized environments. However computing the trust value is a challenge when the source entity has no experience of previous direct interaction with the sink. A popular way...

paradigm. Another important issue is assessing the quality of the contributions prepared by the participants, who are, on the other hand, the social network members. In

this paper, we propose a trust framework for social participatory sensing systems...