Wireless networks are prone to certain information security threats that are either unique, or more pronounced for them due to the open air nature of the channel, bandwidth limitations and constantly changing topology. The concept of trust management, i.e., establishment of trust combined with trust monitoring, can be useful for mitigating the consequences of a substantial number of these threa...

Internet of Things (IoT) is going to create a world where physical objects are seamlessly integrated into information networks in order to provide advanced and intelligent services for human-beings. Trust management plays an important role in IoT for reliable data fusion and mining, qualified services with context-awareness, and enhanced user privacy and information security. It helps people ov...

We identify the trust management problem as a distinct and important component of security in network services. Aspects of the trust management problem include formulating security policies and security credentials, determining whether particular sets of credentials satisfy the relevant policies, and deferring trust to third parties. Existing systems that support security in networked applicati...

Trust is an important aspect of decision making for Information Systems and particularly influences the specification of security policies. However, trust is a complex concept that is difficult to define precisely, and a wide variety of definition of trust have been put forward. Over last ten years, a number of trust management language have been developed to express security statements in a di...

Trust mechanism always has two popular architectures: centralized fashion and distributed fashion. However, those two architectures are not well suited for multi-agent system since they cannot achieve the trust management autonomy. To achieve the trust management autonomy, the paper presents an autonomous trust construction model based on graph theory methodology. The presented model adopts the...

many researchers and experts have emphasized on the importance of confidence in society; urban management and in particular, municipality as one of the largest social organizations could be more effective and productive in the case of gaining the trust of citizens as social and intellectual capital and use it in the organizational goals and urban development the main issue addressed in this res...