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Towards a Trust Framework for Multi-User Virtual Environments

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Trust conceptualizations in multi-user virtual environments (MUVEs) are not covered as a whole by existing trust models and frameworks. Apparently, the representation and modeling of trust in a computational environment is an elusive task, largely because that seems to depend on the context within which entities (e.g., users) interact with each other. Hence, the existence of multiple trust solutions that address domain-specific problems. These solutions are scarce, or even inexistent, in MUVEs. In this paper, we thus elaborate on a trust framework for MUVEs. For this purpose, we carry out a study in order to identify and characterize the MUVE specific features or data sources, as well as to assess how extant trust models (say, TNA-SL, Regret, EigenTrust, Stereotrust and TACS) satisfy MUVEs requirements. As a result, we get a valuable insight on how to build up a trust framework for immersive environments.

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    Rui Costa Cardoso & Abel Gomes

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    Beniamino Murgante

  2. Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria

    Sanjay Misra

  3. Department of Production and Systems, University of Minho, 4710-057, Braga, Portugal

    Ana Maria A. C. Rocha

  4. DICAR, Polytecnico di Bari, 70125, Bari, Italy

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    Bernady O. Apduhan

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    Osvaldo Gervasi

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Cardoso, R.C., Gomes, A. (2014). Towards a Trust Framework for Multi-User Virtual Environments. In: Murgante, B., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2014. ICCSA 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8579. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09144-0_52

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