Chairs:

Lidia Fotia – University of Calabria, Italy
Antonio Guerrieri – ICAR-CNR, Italy


In order to avoid deceptions in intelligent environments, trust-based approaches play a role similar to a social control for determining the best subjects to interact. To this aim, information derived by direct experiences (i.e., reliability) and/or opinions of others (i.e., reputation) can be used to trust potential partners. Moreover, each member of a community performs direct interactions usually with a restricted set of that community and often for only a small number of times. As a consequence, a direct and reliable opinion about someone could be impossible to obtain. In this case it is needed to rely on the suggestions provided by other members of the intelligent environments. The accuracy of such opinions increases as much as the number of the cooperating actors increases but, as in a real context, malicious manipulations are possible. In a virtual environment these dishonest behaviors are encouraged by the facility to change identity (some trust systems faces this issue in a simple way by adopting a Public Key Infrastructure) or, as in P2P and MANET networks, by the sparsity of useful witnesses among the neighbors that implies a partial depiction of agents’ reputation. Several metrics and techniques to measure reliability and reputations, based on both centralized and distributed approaches, have been proposed in the literature in a very large variety of works and survey. Furthermore, some of these approaches dealing with the integration of reliability and reputation into a single synthetic measure but leaving to the user the task to set their parameters.

The aim of this Special Track is to investigate trends among innovative and high-quality research regarding the implementation of conceptual frameworks, strategies, techniques, methodologies, informatics platforms and models applying new perspectives for developing educational applications on the trust-based approach.

Topic:

• trust conceptual models,
• trust and reputation frameworks,
• trust and security,
• trust in social networks,
• trust networks,
• reliability and reputation,
• trust-based recommender systems,
• virtual community architectures,
• trust certification,
• trust in multi-agent systems.

Important Dates

July 25th, 2021 (extended)	Paper submission
August 18th, 2021	Notification of acceptance
August 31st, 2021	Final paper submission
September 16th-18th, 2021	Symposium dates

Submission of Papers

All accepted papers will be included in the Symposium Proceedings, which will be published by Springer.

Full papers must be at most 10 pages long, short papers must be at most 6 pages long and poster must be at most 3 pages long and all them must be formatted according to Springer format.

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