Nehal Al-Otaiby1, Heba Kurdi1,*, Shiroq Al-Megren1
CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.59, No.2, pp. 397-404, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2019.06236
Abstract Trust has become an increasingly important issue given society’s growing reliance on electronic transactions. Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks are among the main electronic transaction environments affected by trust issues due to the freedom and anonymity of peers (users) and the inherent openness of these networks. A malicious peer can easily join a P2P network and abuse its peers and resources, resulting in a large-scale failure that might shut down the entire network. Therefore, a plethora of researchers have proposed trust management systems to mitigate the impact of the problem. However, due to the problem’s scale and More >