Voting systems with trust mechanisms in cyberspace: Vulnerabilities and defenses

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1766-1780

  Feng, Qinyuan ^a,b   Sun, Yan Lindsay ^c   Liu, Ling ^b   Yang, Yafei ^d   Dai, Yafei ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c University of Rhode Island   (United States)

^d QUALCOMM INC   (United States)

Author keywords

reputation system; security; trust mechanism; Voting system

Indexed keywords

CYBERSPACES; REPUTATION SYSTEMS; SECURITY; TRUST MECHANISM; VOTING SYSTEMS;

COMPUTERS; EXPERIMENTS;

VOTING MACHINES;

EID: 78149266057     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TKDE.2009.214     Document Type: Article

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