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Disseminating trust information in wearable communities

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This paper describes a framework for managing and distributing trust information in a community of mobile and wearable computer users. Trust information in the form of reputations are used to aid users during their social interactions with the rest of the community.

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Schneider, J., Kortuem, G., Jager, J. et al. Disseminating trust information in wearable communities. Personal Technologies 4, 245–248 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02391568

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