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An approach to evaluate trust and reputation of things in a Multi-IoTs scenario

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In the past research, trust and reputation have been investigated for communities of people, for organizations and for multi-agent systems. However, in the last few years, things are becoming increasingly relevant in the Internet scenario and, at the same time, increasingly complex. As a matter of fact, the term “Internet of Things” (hereafter, IoT) is becoming more and more common in both the scientific and the technological contexts. But, if a thing can have a profile and a behavior like a human, it is not out of place to extend the concept of trust and reputation to things and to define ad hoc approaches for their computation. In this paper, we investigate trust and reputation of a thing in a Multiple IoTs scenario and we propose a context-aware approach to evaluate them. This task is not immediate because it should consider all the peculiarities of a thing compared to a human and all the specificities of a Multiple IoTs scenario compared to a community of people.

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  1. This value is obtained by proceeding in the same way as we did for the electronics store in Sect. 5.2.1.

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Acknowledgements

This work was partially funded by the Department of Information Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Marche under the project “A network-based approach to uniformly extract knowledge and support decision making in heterogeneous application contexts” (RSAB 2018), and by the Marche Region under the project “Human Digital Flexible Factory of the Future Laboratory (HDSFIab)—POR MARCHE FESR 2014–2020—CUP B16H18000050007”.

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Ursino, D., Virgili, L. An approach to evaluate trust and reputation of things in a Multi-IoTs scenario. Computing 102, 2257–2298 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00607-020-00818-5

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