- Title
- Determining trustworthiness and quality of mobile applications
- Creator
- Pranata, Ilung; Athauda, Rukshan; Skinner, Geoff
- Relation
- Mobile Wireless Middleware, Operating Systems and Applications: 5th International Conference, Mobilware 2012 Berlin, Germany, November 13-14, 2012 Revised Selected Papers p. 192-206
- Relation
- Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering 65
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36660-4_14
- Publisher
- Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2013
- Description
- The growth of "smart" mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets, has been exponential over the past few years. Such growth was mainly attributed to the development of mobile applications. To date, mobile applications have been increasingly used to improve our productivity and also to provide the entertainment contents. However, with a huge number of mobile applications that appear in the application stores; in particular those that provide similar functionalities, users are often confused with the selection of trustworthy and high quality mobile applications. At the current state, there is a limited research embarked to provide solutions for measuring the trustworthiness of mobile applications prior to download. Thus, the aims of this paper are to review the current research in this area and to discuss several issues in measuring the trustworthiness of mobile applications. In addition, this paper also proposes MobilTrust, a similarity trust measurement method to solve the identified issues.
- Subject
- trust; reputation; mobile application
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1295506
- Identifier
- uon:19041
- Identifier
- ISBN:9783642366598
- Language
- eng
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