Abstract-- This work aims at measuring familiarity to contribute to the formalization of trust. Trust has always been bundled with familiarity to become a popular topic in the area...
Distributed applications that lack a central, trustworthy authority for control and validation are properly termed decentralized. Multiple, independent agencies, or "partners...
Girish Suryanarayana, Justin R. Erenkrantz, Scott ...
In open, dynamic multi-agent systems, agents may form short-term ad-hoc groups, such as coalitions, in order to meet their goals. Trust and reputation are crucial concepts in thes...
Abstract. In the standard general-adversary model for multi-party protocols, a global adversary structure is given, and every party must trust in this particular structure. We intr...
Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) security depends upon secure management and usage of trust anchors. Unfortunately, widely used mechanisms, management models and usage practices re...