| CPC G06F 21/57 (2013.01) | 12 Claims | 

| 
               1. A provenance information based trust evaluation method for selecting an interaction object of a self-adaptive system, the provenance information based trust evaluation method comprising: 
              transmitting an interaction request signal, by a communication module, to at least one neighbor; 
                receiving a response including provenance information, by the communication module, from the at least one neighbor; 
                regarding the at least one neighbor that transmits the response as at least one interaction object candidate and evaluating a final trust of the at least one interaction object candidate based on the provenance information included in the response by a processor; and 
                selecting an interaction object among the at least one interaction object candidate based on the final trust of each of the at least one interaction object candidate by the processor, 
                wherein the final trust is calculated based on a provenance trust of each of the at least one interaction object candidate and an influence of an interaction pattern, 
                wherein the provenance trust is calculated by following Equations 1 and 2: 
              ![]() wherein PTi denotes a provenance trust for j, CRk denotes a k-th interaction result, and Δtk denotes a time when CRk and an interaction are performed, 
                wherein Δtk is calculated by Equation 2: 
              ![]() wherein tcure denotes a current time, tk denotes a time when the interaction occurs, and λ denotes a decay constant. 
               |