Trust Management in Opportunistic Networks: A Semantic Web Approach

Semantic Web is emerging as a promising integration of trust management systems, fostering the use of ontology to achieve a common language for communication among humans, computers, and programs. In this paper, a novel Semantic Web solution called COmposite trust and Trust management in Opportunistic Networks (COTTON) is proposed, which provides an architectural basis for representing trust and trust management in Opportunistic Networks.