Title
Vulnerability Evaluation of Distributed Reputation Management Systems
Abstract
In distributed environments, Reputation Management Systems (RMSs) aim to estimate agents' trustworthiness by exploiting different sources of information. The distributed nature of these systems makes them vulnerable to several types of security attacks, and the response provided by a specific RMS depends on various factors, such as the algorithms adopted for estimating the reputation values and the communication protocols used to enable the cooperation among agents. This work examines the most important security attacks against RMSs and proposes a set of metrics for a quantitative evaluation of the RMS vulnerabilities. A parallel simulation framework is used to automatically give a vulnerability score to a RMS according to the computed metrics. Experiments performed on a case-study RMS show the effectiveness of the metrics we defined, and the convenience of using a simulation environment to support the design of a secure RMS.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.4108/eai.25-10-2016.2266868
VALUETOOLS
Field
DocType
ISBN
Parallel simulation,Computer security,Computer science,Trustworthiness,Reputation management,Reputation,Distributed computing,Communications protocol,Vulnerability
Conference
978-1-63190-141-6
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
10
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Vincenzo Agate154.84
Alessandra De Paola214116.81
Giuseppe Lo Re371.47
Marco Morana411114.78