MobiFuzzyTrust: An efficient fuzzy trust inference mechanism in mobile social networks

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 2944-2955

  Hao, Fei ^a,b   Min, Geyong ^b   Lin, Man ^c   Luo, Changqing ^a   Yang, Laurence T ^a,b  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c ST FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

fuzzy inference; linguistic terms; mobile context; Mobile social networks; trust

Indexed keywords

FUZZY TRUSTS; LINGUISTIC TERMS; MOBILE CONTEXT; MOBILE SOCIAL NETWORKS; TRUST;

FUZZY INFERENCE;

EID: 84908085418     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2013.309     Document Type: Article

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