Abstract. Reputation systems help peers decide whom to trust before undertaking a transaction. Conventional approaches to reputation-based trust modeling assume that peers reputed ...
Gayatri Swamynathan, Ben Y. Zhao, Kevin C. Almerot...
A fundamental problem that confronts decentralized reputation systems is the design of efficient, secure and incentive-compatible mechanisms to gather trust information despite m...
— “Word-of-Mouth”, a novel scheme for sharing the service quality experienced with different local networks, is presented and evaluated as a distributed solution for performi...
— Slander attacks represent a significant danger to distributed reputation systems. Malicious nodes may collude to lie about the reputation of a particular neighbor and cause se...
Pedro B. Velloso, Rafael P. Laufer, Otto Carlos Mu...
Peer-to-peer (P2P) systems enable users to share resources in a networked environment without worrying about issues such as scalability and load balancing. Unlike exchange of good...
Dipyaman Banerjee, Sabyasachi Saha, Sandip Sen, Pr...