Title :
BlueTrust in a Real World
Author :
Markides, Bradley ; Coetzee, Marijke
Author_Institution :
Acad. for Inf. Technol., Johannesburg Univ., Johannesburg
Abstract :
Social networks are evolving as mobile devices are able to establish direct communication with each other. Devices enable social interaction, as a level of trust for another person can be determined in the background. This paper describes BlueTrust, a trust mechanism that takes advantage of both the capabilities of the Semantic Web and mobile ad-hoc networks, which are suitable to solve the problems of creation, distribution and discovery of trust information in mobile social networks.
Keywords :
ad hoc networks; mobile radio; security of data; semantic Web; telecommunication security; BlueTrust trust mechanism; mobile ad-hoc network; semantic Web; social network; Africa; Availability; Bluetooth; Humans; Information security; Information technology; Mobile handsets; Prototypes; Social network services; Telecommunication network reliability; Bluetooth; FOAF; human trust; small world; transitive trust;
Conference_Titel :
Availability, Reliability and Security, 2008. ARES 08. Third International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Barcelona
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3102-1
DOI :
10.1109/ARES.2008.36
