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Establishing distributed social network trust model in MobiCloud system
Description
This thesis proposed a novel approach to establish the trust model in a social network scenario based on users' emails. Email is one of the most important social connections nowadays. By analyzing email exchange activities among users, a social network trust model can be established to judge the trust rate between each two users. The whole trust checking process is divided into two steps: local checking and remote checking. Local checking directly contacts the email server to calculate the trust rate based on user's own email communication history. Remote checking is a distributed computing process to get help from user's social network friends and built the trust rate together. The email-based trust model is built upon a cloud computing framework called MobiCloud. Inside MobiCloud, each user occupies a virtual machine which can directly communicate with others. Based on this feature, the distributed trust model is implemented as a combination of local analysis and remote analysis in the cloud. Experiment results show that the trust evaluation model can give accurate trust rate even in a small scale social network which does not have lots of social connections. With this trust model, the security in both social network services and email communication could be improved.
Date Created
2011
Contributors
- Zhong, Yunji (Author)
- Huang, Dijiang (Thesis advisor)
- Dasgupta, Partha (Committee member)
- Syrotiuk, Violet (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
Topical Subject
Resource Type
Extent
vii, 47 p. : ill. (some col.)
Language
eng
Copyright Statement
In Copyright
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Peer-reviewed
No
Open Access
No
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.14405
Statement of Responsibility
by Yunji Zhong
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Level of coding
full
Note
thesis
Partial requirement for: M.S., Arizona State University, 2011
bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 44-46)
Field of study: Computer science
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