A Matrix Factorization Model for Hellinger-Based Trust Management in Social Internet of Things

The Social Internet of Things (SIoT), integration of the Internet of Things, and Social Networks paradigms, has been introduced to build a network of smart nodes that are capable of establishing social links. In order to deal with misbehaving service provider nodes, service requestor nodes must evaluate their trustworthiness levels. In this article, we propose a novel trust management mechanism in the SIoT to predict the most reliable service …