Implementation of a Trust-Behavior Based Reputation System for Mobile Applications

Author

Tianli Dang ; Zheng Yan ; Fei Tong ; Weidong Zhang ; Peng Zhang

Author_Institution

State Key Lab. of Integrated Service Networks, Xidian Univ., Xi´an, China

fYear

2014

fDate

8-10 Nov. 2014

Firstpage

221

Lastpage

228

Abstract

The sharp increase of the number of mobile applications attracts special attention on mobile application trust. It becomes more and more crucial for a user to know which mobile application is trustworthy to purchase, download, install, execute and recommend. This paper presents the design and implementation of a trust-behavior based reputation system for mobile applications based on an Android platform. The system can automatically evaluate a user´s trust in a mobile application based on application usage and generate application reputation according to collected individual trust information. We implement the system and evaluate its performance based on a user study. The result shows that our system is effective with regard to trust/reputation evaluation accuracy, power efficiency and system usability.

Keywords

Android (operating system); mobile computing; trusted computing; Android platform; automatic user trust evaluation; mobile application trust; power efficiency; trust-behavior based reputation system; trustworthy mobile application; Databases; Mobile communication; Mobile handsets; Monitoring; Robustness; Usability; Reputation systems; mobile applications; trust; trust behavior;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Broadband and Wireless Computing, Communication and Applications (BWCCA), 2014 Ninth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Guangdong

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-4174-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BWCCA.2014.52

Filename

7016072