Title
Decentralized Trust Management: Risk Analysis and Trust Aggregation
Abstract
Decentralized trust management is used as a referral benchmark for assisting decision making by human or intelligence machines in open collaborative systems. During any given period of time, each participant may only interact with a few other participants. Simply relying on direct trust may frequently resort to random team formation. Thus, trust aggregation becomes critical. It can leverage decentralized trust management to learn about indirect trust of every participant based on past transaction experiences. This article presents alternative designs of decentralized trust management and their efficiency and robustness from three perspectives. First, we study the risk factors and adverse effects of six common threat models. Second, we review the representative trust aggregation models and trust metrics. Third, we present an in-depth analysis and comparison of these reference trust aggregation methods with respect to effectiveness and robustness. We show our comparative study results through formal analysis and experimental evaluation. This comprehensive study advances the understanding of adverse effects of present and future threats and the robustness of different trust metrics. It may also serve as a guideline for research and development of next-generation trust aggregation algorithms and services in the anticipation of risk factors and mischievous threats.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1145/3362168
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Trust management,adverse effect,threat risk,trust aggregation
Journal
53
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
0360-0300
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.42
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xinxin Fan1165.10
Ling Liu22181142.51
Rui Zhang315817.73
Quanliang Jing422.45
Jingping Bi57018.36