A social approach can be exploited for the Internet of Things (IoT) to manage a large number
of connected objects. These objects operate as autonomous agents to request and provide …

Trust can help participants in online social communities to make decisions; however, it is a
challenge for systems to map trust into computational models because of its subjective …

This paper proposes a penalty strategy with differentiated service rate based on the free
riding phenomenon in P2P networks, and establishes an M/M/c+d queueing model. Based …

Abstract In Social Internet of Things (SIoT) environments, a large number of users and
Internet of Things (IoT) based devices are connected to each other, so that they can share …

Human gait identification aims to identify people by a sequence of walking images.
Comparing with fingerprint or iris based identification, the most important advantage of gait …

With the increases of P2P applications and their users, the attacks on P2P networks have
also increased significantly. To handle the problem, researchers have proposed many kinds …

In service-oriented computing applications, service consumers and providers need to
evaluate the trust levels of potential partners before engaging in interactions. The accuracy …

In the collaborative network environment, the ubiquitous cooperation phenomenon among
autonomous and selfish individuals has drawn extensive attentions during the last years …

Real-world applications, such as peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, e-commerce and social
networks, usually employ reputation systems to provide guidance in selecting trustworthy …

To curb malicious behavior, researchers have proposed a lot of trust models for P2P
networks, most of which, however, suffer from the problems of high complexity, bad …