As a result of the exponential growth in technology and computing in recent years,
autonomous systems are becoming more relevant in our daily lives. As these systems …

The mining process in the Blockchain is very resource intensive, therefore, miners form
coalitions to verify each block of transactions in return for a reward where only the first …

The authors introduce the notion of a 'social secret sharing scheme', in which shares are
allocated based on a player's reputation and the way he/she interacts with other participants …

We first review the notion of social secret sharing and its trust function. We then illustrate
how this construction can be used in cloud computing to create a self-organizing …

Rational secret sharing was proposed by Halpern and Teague in [8]. The authors show that,
in a setting with rational players, secret sharing and multiparty computation are only possible …

Social acceptability of fully autonomous systems, such as self-driving cars (SDC), is a
prominent challenge that academic communities as well as industries are now facing …

Since the beginning of human race, we have always sought ways to develop bonds and
create meaningful relationships with others. In these interactions, there are several …

In the second chapter, the notion of a social secret sharing (SSS) scheme is introduced in
which shares are allocated based on a player's reputation and the way she interacts with …

Rational party is a new kind of parties who behave neither like honest parties nor like
malicious adversaries. The crux point of rational party is the definition of the utility function …

Trust models are widely used in various computer science disciplines. The primary purpose
of a trust model is to continuously measure the trustworthiness of a set of entities based on …