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.
Index Terms:
Bluetooth, FOAF, transitive trust, small world, human trust
Citation:
Bradley Markides, Marijke Coetzee, "BlueTrust in a Real World," ares, pp.440-445, 2008 Third International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, 2008