A cloud-based trust model for evaluating quality of web services

Journal of Computer Science and Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1130-1142

  Wang, Shou Xin ^a   Zhang, Li ^a   Wang, Shuai ^a   Qiu, Xiang ^a  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cloud Model; trust; trust evaluation; Web service

Indexed keywords

CLOUD MODELS; CURRENT RESEARCHES; DISTRIBUTED NETWORKS; ESSENTIAL CHARACTERISTIC; GENERATION ALGORITHM; KEY FACTORS; QUALITY OF WEB SERVICES; SELECTING SERVICES; SERVICE ENVIRONMENT; SUBJECTIVE UNCERTAINTY; TRUST; TRUST DEGREE; TRUST EVALUATION; TRUST FACTOR; TRUST MODELS;

ALGORITHMS; NETWORK SECURITY;

WEB SERVICES;

EID: 78650299224     PISSN: 10009000     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11390-010-9394-1     Document Type: Article

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