The concept of trust and/or trust management has received considerable attention in
engineering research communities as trust is perceived as the basis for decision making in …

Nowadays, trust management plays a significant role in different applications like
commercial applications, Internet of Things (IoT) based applications, social networking …

Dealing with uncertain, contradicting, and ambiguous information is still a central issue in
Artificial Intelligence (AI). As a result, many formalisms have been proposed or adapted so …

Information sharing is a key objective in the age of Internet and virtual communities.
Reputation information is an important part of a user's identity and is both a sensitive and …

An equity mutual fund is a financial instrument that invests in a set of stocks. Any two
different funds may partially invest in some of the same stocks, thus overlap is common …

Trust and reputation systems for virtual communities are gaining increasing research
attention. These systems track members' activities and obtain their reputation to improve the …

The fifth mobile generation (5G) will enable massive distributed applications that run on
various platforms and cater diverse and interacting entities. If such interactions are to be …

Virtual communities are gradually becoming an inherent part of modern life. Trust and
reputation systems, which are considered key enablers of virtual communities, These …

Trust ratings shared by users in electronic commerce environments are subjective as trust
evaluation depends on evaluators' personal disposition to trust. As such, aggregation of …

In inter-enterprise collaborations, autonomous services from different organizations must
independently determine which other services they can rely on. Reputation-based trust …