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Direct trust assignment using social reputation and aging

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The exploitation of trust in virtual environments, on-line services, intelligent pervasive environments and many other scenarios still deserve researchers’ interest. In this work we investigate on how to assess the local (direct) trust a node receives from each of his neighbors. Our proposal is social-based and takes into account both positive and negative experiences as well as the history of past feedbacks and their aging, ensuring good stability also when a node receives hundreds of positive feedbacks briefly followed by few negative feedbacks. Our results are illustrated by performing several simulations on different networks.

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    M. Buzzanca, V. Carchiolo, A. Longheu, M. Malgeri & G. Mangioni

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The research was supported by S.M.I.T. Sistema di Monitoraggio integrato per il Turismo—Linea di intervento 4.1.1.1 del POR FESR Sicilia 2007–2013.

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Buzzanca, M., Carchiolo, V., Longheu, A. et al. Direct trust assignment using social reputation and aging. J Ambient Intell Human Comput 8, 167–175 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12652-016-0413-0

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