A novel trust evaluation method for Ubiquitous Healthcare based on cloud computational theory

Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2014:2014:4503-6. doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2014.6944624.

Abstract

The notion of trust is considered to be the cornerstone on patient-psychiatrist relationship. Thus, a trustfully background is fundamental requirement for provision of effective Ubiquitous Healthcare (UH) service. In this paper, the issue of Trust Evaluation of UH Providers when register UH environment is addressed. For that purpose a novel trust evaluation method is proposed, based on cloud theory, exploiting User Profile attributes. This theory mimics human thinking, regarding trust evaluation and captures fuzziness and randomness of this uncertain reasoning. Two case studies are investigated through simulation in MATLAB software, in order to verify the effectiveness of this novel method.

Publication types

  • Evaluation Study

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms*
  • Delivery of Health Care*
  • Health Personnel
  • Humans
  • Physician-Patient Relations
  • Trust*