A Novel Trust Model to Support Adhoc Collaboration

Increasingly, P2P networks are being used to facilitate adhoc collaborations, which often involve members who have never met. Due to the distributed nature of P2P, managing trust is a challenge. Prior research has focused on solutions that rely upon the feedback from other peers to assign reputation and trust. We offer a trust model where trust management is totally distributed, with each node maintaining its trust data locally. The model and a variety of algorithms were simulated to evaluate the effectiveness of the trust model.