Game Theory Based Trust Model for Cloud Environment

Algorithm 1

Pseudocode of the Nash equilibrium (NE) based trust model.

Inputs Belief (), Disbelief (), Uncertainty (), Type of Application.

Output Evaluated trust value.

NE-Trust

    ← belief over

    ← disbelief over

    ← uncertainty over

  Let,

  Create 2D array for the above equation

  () in 2D array

  call LemkeHowson()

     identify appropriate NE cell from 2d array

     return: best strategy

LemkeHawson()

  let denotes label over

  while ()

       remove

  if ()

     quit loop

  in remove

  if ()

     quit loop

return NE