Table 12 Pairwise significance tests: Greedy versus baselines on nodes visited (\(\alpha =0.5\)).

From: Trust and class aware service discovery with dual control in the social Internet of Things

Dataset

Baseline

Proposed

Baseline

t

p

Sig.

EIES

BFS

16.10

16.84

0.62

0.539

EIES

DFS

16.10

35.25

11.31

<0.001

***

EIES

A*

16.10

16.10

0.00

1.000

EIES

Best-FS

16.10

15.63

−0.41

0.681

FB_Forum

BFS

157.49

152.71

−0.36

0.720

FB_Forum

DFS

157.49

503.43

22.23

<0.001

***

FB_Forum

A*

157.49

165.42

0.57

0.572

FB_Forum

Best-FS

157.49

305.69

6.88

<0.001

***

Caenorhabditis

BFS

48.57

50.32

0.43

0.670

Caenorhabditis

DFS

48.57

156.84

11.94

<0.001

***

Caenorhabditis

A*

48.57

52.71

0.96

0.339

Caenorhabditis

Best-FS

48.57

62.14

2.41

0.018

*

Epinions

BFS

4107.00

13649.12

5.65

<0.001

***

Epinions

DFS

4107.00

9112.36

6.73

<0.001

***

Epinions

A*

4107.00

13211.09

5.37

<0.001

***

Epinions

Best-FS

4107.00

5922.98

3.23

0.002

**

  1. Significance: *** \(p<0.001\), ** \(p<0.01\), * \(p<0.05\), – not significant