A survey of trust in computer science and the Semantic Web
Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web
Dynamic hybrid fault models and the applications to wireless sensor networks (WSNs)
Proceedings of the 11th international symposium on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
Journal of Systems and Software
New approaches to reliability and survivability with survival analysis, dynamic hybrid fault models, and evolutionary game theory
Insect sensory systems inspired computing and communications
Ad Hoc Networks
Qualitative trust modeling in SOA
Journal of Systems Architecture: the EUROMICRO Journal
Proceedings of the 5th Annual Workshop on Cyber Security and Information Intelligence Research: Cyber Security and Information Intelligence Challenges and Strategies
AICI '09 Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Computational Intelligence
AICI '09 Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Computational Intelligence
The handicap principle, strategic information warfare and the paradox of asymmetry
Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Workshop on Cyber Security and Information Intelligence Research
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Communication is a fundamental function of life, and it exists in almost all living things: from single-cell bacteria to human beings. Communication, together with competition and cooperation ,arethree fundamental processes in nature. Computer scientists are familiar with the study of competition or 'struggle for life ' through Darwin's evolutionary theory, or even evolutionary computing. They may be equally familiar with the study of cooperation or altruism through the Prisoner's Dilemma (PD) game. However, they are likely to be less familiar with the theory of animal communication . The objective of this article is three-fold: (i ) To suggest that the study of animal communication, especially the honesty (reliability ) of animal communication, in which some significant advances in behavioral biology have been achieved in the last three decades, should be on the verge to spawn important cross-disciplinary research similar to that generated by the study of cooperation with the PD game. One of the far-reaching advances in the field is marked by the publication of "The Handicap Principle: a Missing Piece of Darwin's Puzzle " by Zahavi (1997). The 'Handicap' principle [34][35], which states that communication signals must be costly in some proper way to be reliable (honest), is best elucidated with evolutionary games, e.g., Sir Philip Sidney (SPS) game [23]. Accordingly, we suggest that the Handicap principle may serve as a fundamental paradigm for trust research in computer science. (ii ) To suggest to computer scientists that their expertise in modeling computer networks may help behavioral biologists in their study of the reliability of animal communication networks . This is largely due to the historical reason that, until the last decade, animal communication was studied with the dyadic paradigm (sender-receiver) rather than with the network paradigm. (iii ) To pose several open questions, the answers to which may bear some refreshing insights to trust research in computer science, especially secure and resilient computing, the semantic web, and social networking. One important thread unifying the three aspects is the evolutionary game theory modeling or its extensions with survival analysis and agreement algorithms [19][20], which offer powerful game models for describing time-, space-, and covariate-dependent frailty (uncertainty and vulnerability) and deception (honesty).