An efficient and reliable approach for quality-of-service-aware service composition

J Li, XL Zheng, ST Chen, WW Song, D Chen - Information Sciences, 2014 - Elsevier
With the rapidly increasing number of independently developed Web services that provide
similar functionalities with varied quality of service (QoS), service composition is considered …

An End-to-end Trust Management Framework for Crowdsourced IoT Services

M Bahutair, A Bouguettaya - ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, 2023 - dl.acm.org
We propose a novel end-to-end trust management framework for crowdsourced Internet of
Things (IoT) services. The framework targets three main aspects: trust assessment, trust …

An integrated trust establishment model for the internet of agents

A Aref, T Tran - Knowledge and Information Systems, 2020 - Springer
Abstract The Internet of Agents (IoA) is an emerging field of research that extends the
concept of Internet of Things (IoT) by augmenting internal reasoning and intelligence …

[PDF][PDF] A Trust Establishment Model in Multi-Agent Systems.

A Aref, TT Tran - AAAI Workshop: Incentive and Trust in E-communities, 2015 - cdn.aaai.org
In open multi-agent systems, often, agents interact with each other to meet their objectives.
Trust is, therefore, considered essential to make such interactions useful. However, trust is a …

Blockchain-based trust information storage in crowdsourced IoT services

M Bahutair, A Bouguettaya - 2021 IEEE International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a novel distributed integrity-preserving framework for storing trust information in
crowdsourced IoT environments. The integrity and availability of the trust information is …

FTE: A fuzzy logic based trust establishment model for intelligent agents

A Aref, T Tran - 2015 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multiagent systems are commonly used for the study and implementation of distributed
systems and virtual online societies. Trust has long been recognized as a vital notion in …

RLTE: A reinforcement learning based trust establishment model

A Aref, T Tran - 2015 IEEE Trustcom/BigDataSE/ISPA, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Trust is a complex, multifaceted concept that includes more than just evaluating others'
honesty. Many trust evaluation models have been proposed and implemented in different …

Acting as a Trustee for Internet of Agents in the Absence of Explicit Feedback

A Aref, T Tran - E-Technologies: Embracing the Internet of Things: 7th …, 2017 - Springer
Abstract The Internet of Agents (IoA) is an emerging field of research that aims to combine
the advantages of multi-agent systems and Internet of Things (IoT), by adding autonomy and …

Co** with unfair ratings in reputation systems based on learning approach

A Khoshkbarchi, HR Shahriari - Enterprise Information Systems, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
One of the problems in service-oriented environments is the existence of deceptive agents
and their intentional or unintentional malicious behaviour. A more complex challenge is …

Multi-criteria trust establishment for Internet of Agents in smart grids

A Aref, T Tran - Multiagent and Grid Systems, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
The Internet of Agents (IoA) is an emerging field of research that aims to combine the
advantages of multi-agent systems and Internet of Things (IoT), by adding autonomy and …