Yuhong Liu (University of Rhode Island), “Security and Applications of Digital Trust and Reputation” (2012), Advisor: Prof. Yan Lindsay Sun
Abstract: Digital Trust borrows the trust concept in sociology to indicate that, in distributed computing and communication systems, one party evaluates whether other parties are trusted to perform a certain action or having a certain property. When the digital trust value is published to the entire network or general users, it is called digital reputation.